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In the high-intensity world of student prospecting, everyone is looking for a competitive edge--but one of the greatest "edges" you can have is to simply understand what prospective students want, need, and expect and align your actions accordingly. Prospecting expert Michael O'Hara suggests four strategies colleges and universities can adopt to increase success related to prospective students. More
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While the rest of the world will experience increases in education IT spending this year, in the United States, information technology will be flat through the end of 2010. But, according to research firm Gartner, growth will resume in 2011 and continue at least through 2014. MoreMicrosoft used the occasion of a recent open source conference to advance its vision of an open cloud by breaking it down into four basic principles. MoreRemington College, a confederation of private career colleges, has deployed campus wireless networks that are managed centrally through a cloud-based service. MoreA new Dell cluster is going in at the University of Cambridge in its High Performance Computing (HPC) Service as part of a Dell/Cambridge HPC Solution Centre. The Solution Centre acts as a vehicle for "capturing" HPC requirements, developing solutions, and running tests in a production environment for Dell. MoreThe California State University system recently deployed Oracle's Business Intelligence (BI) Enterprise Edition on three of its 23 campuses as part of an ambitious cross-institutional project called the "Common Financial System Reporting and Data Warehouse." MoreApplication lifecycle management (ALM) provider Collabnet rolled out a new version of its flagship TeamForge ALM platform this week, as well as a general-availability release of its free Subversion Edge product. MoreOracle has released an update of its Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g, extending its support to more Fusion Middleware components, for the latest Eclipse 3.6 "Helios" release and for Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) tools. MoreGoogle and Verizon this week issued a statement on United States broadband policy, describing an approach that would permit differentiated services. MoreMicrosoft rolled out 14 fixes in its August security update Tuesday, bringing the total for the month to 15. MoreGoogle has acquired Eclipse-based commercial software tools and services provider Instantiations for an undisclosed amount. More
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