Campus Technology: Using Technology To Do More with Less

An e-Newsletter for IT Professionals in Higher Ed

4/9/2009

Case Study

Using Technology To Do More with Less
With IT budgets shrinking and challenging economic conditions persisting, an increasing number of higher education institutions are being forced to do more with less. The University of Michigan-Flint, one of the university's two regional campuses, is no exception.More

IT News

Windows 7 Will Have an XP Downgrade Option
Microsoft will permit Windows 7 Professional edition downgrades to Windows XP Professional, according a report by veteran Microsoft watcher Mary-Jo Foley published this week.More
Sun VirtualBox 2.2 Adds Open Virtualization Format Support
Sun Microsystems has released VirtualBox 2.2, an update to the company's free and open source desktop virtualization solution. The new release includes a number of performance and feature enhancements, as well as support for the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) specification.More
Victoria U To Build Green Data Center
Victoria University is building a new, green data center with the help of IBM. The Australian university said it expects the data center to address its increasing data management needs for the next decade and save $300,000 in energy costs in the process.More
Xserve Gets Performance Boost with Nehalem Processors
Apple has given its Xserve line of rackmount servers a performance boost. The new models use Intel Nehalem processors and deliver, according to Apple, "up to an 89 percent improvement in performance per watt."More
First Service Pack Released for SQL Server 2008
Microsoft this week released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1, which provides updates to the relational database management system, but no new features.More
San Diego Supercomputer Center Taps eThority for BI
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has selected eThority Enterprise Edition to perform business intelligence work.More
Windows 7 RC Nears and There Will Be Pain
Windows 7 beta testers will experience some pain when moving to the release candidate (RC) version of the operating system when it comes out, Microsoft representatives explained Tuesday.More

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