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With a few dozen high-end Mac digital media workstations serving about 1,000 students a year, Yale's Digital Media Center for the Arts has seen its share of data overload, not to mention storage catastrophes for students along the way. As part of an effort to overcome at least some of those challenges, the center consolidated storage in a centralized system, reducing the number of hard drives down to one while still delivering all the capacity those digital media students need. MoreNew York's Sarah Lawrence College spent two years selecting and rolling out a new enterprise resource planning system--one that, unlike its legacy system, wouldn't require pulling staff out of retirement to maintain. More
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In a controversial decision, the University of Texas System will be investing $10 million into a service intended to bolster student success among its 15 campuses. MoreUsers who feel inadequate to the task of protecting their privacy online aren't alone. The types of tools available for opting out of Internet tracking are hard to set up and confusing to use, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon University. MoreNetApp has launched its new FAS2000 line of entry-level storage systems for midsize organizations. MorePanasonic has debuted an upcoming line of ruggedized tablets built on the Android platform. Dubbed "Toughpad," the devices will begin shipping in 2012, with the first model, the A1, starting at $1,299. MoreSan Joaquin Valley College, a career college in California with 10 campuses, has moved storage functions to a virtual storage system from EMC. More
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163 Campuses Rank Top Drivers for Faster Wireless on Campus
Sponsored by: Brocade
This benchmark report conducted by the Aberdeen Group provides an
analysis into the top pressures driving the higher education sector
to implement 802.11n Wireless LANs (WLANs), and how this affects the
strategies and actions institutions choose in response.
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