Campus Technology: Staying Out of the Headlines through Encryption

Strategic Discussions on Technology

9/28/2011

Executive View

Staying Out of the Headlines through Encryption
Thomas Jefferson University, an institution with an academic health center and an affiliated teaching hospital, is using an encryption strategy to keep sensitive data secure and avoid the hardship of data breaches.
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Worth Noting

AVAI Releases CT Forum App, OnCampus App Suite
AVAI Special Systems has partnered with 1105 Media to create a productivity app for use at Campus Technology Forum 2011. The company will also launch its new OnCampus Mobile application suite at the event taking place in Long Beach, CA September 27-29.
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Texas Advanced Computing Center to Deploy One of the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) has announced plans to build and deploy a high performance computing (HPC) system, called Stampede, which will have a peak performance of 10 petaflops, 272 terabytes of memory, and 14 petabytes of disk storage.
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1 Tbps 'Hybrid Memory Cube' Coming to Future Servers, Ultrabooks
Intel has demonstrated its concept Hybrid Memory Cube, which is seven times more energy efficient than current DDR3 memory and has the highest data rates ever available in a single Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) device.
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Oracle Unveils SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 General Purpose Engineered System
Oracle has unveiled its new SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, a general purpose engineered solution that combines Oracle SPARC T4-4 servers, Oracle Exadata Storage Servers, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, ZFS Storage Appliances, InfiniBand I/O fabric, and the Oracle Solaris operating system into a single infrastructure solution designed for running a wide range of enterprise applications with high levels of performance and reliability.
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East Carolina U Taps Early Alert System To Aid Retention
Following a test run with 2,000 undergraduate students last year, East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, will deploy Starfish systems campuswide to its 27,000 students beginning this fall semester.
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Desire2Learn Partners with ReadSpeaker To Improve Accessibility
Desire2Learn has partnered with ReadSpeaker to increase the usability and accessibility of the Desire2Learn learning platforms.
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TargetX Tool Enables Colleges To Track Social Chatter For Recruitment
College and university admissions offices can now track social media conversations and use this chatter as a means for recruiting and building relationships with students, thanks to a new customer relationship management (CRM) tool from TargetX.
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University of Minnesota To Host Cyber Security Summit
The Technological Leadership Institute in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering is hosting the First Annual Cyber Security Summit on October 3.
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Science Social Network Compiles Latest News, Studies
The science resource site Sciencia.org has now become a crowdsourced social network that synthesizes the latest scientific news, studies, and resources from journals, books, and websites into something resembling Wikipedia meets a Facebook News Feed.
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