Campus Technology: Facing Higher Ed's IT Funding Future

An Electronic Newsletter for IT Professionals in Higher Ed

3/1/2012

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Facing Higher Ed's IT Funding Future
Since the economic meltdown began, continued financial challenges have impacted how most higher education CIOs deal with IT funding. Maintaining IT services has become a struggle as revenues dry up, while costs are ever on the rise. Expanding these IT services with such limited resources and uncertain long-term budget growth is on everyone's mind among higher ed CIOs and has changed how many institutions approach reducing their IT costs.
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IT News

Kingston U Expands Desktop Virtualization to All HTML5-Enabled Devices
Kingston University is providing its students and staff with access to the university's entire online student learning environment from any device running an HTML5-enabled browser.
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Holy Cross Deploys 802.11n Across 174-Acre Campus
The College of the Holy Cross has completely overhauled its wireless network. The move was a significant undertaking for the college, which has 38 buildings spread out over 174 acres, including a number of older structures constructed of thick stone and iron.
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Cornell Biotech Institute Moves to Red Hat Scalable Storage Software Appliance
Cornell University Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies has implemented a new highly available and scalable storage software appliance to support the institute's data-intensive research projects.
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BYU Taps Mid-Tier Storage Array To Support Comp Sci Research
The Computer Science department at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT has deployed a new storage system to support its virtualized operating environment.
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Aruba Networks Intros Device Management Appliance for BYOD
Aruba Networks has entered the rapidly expanding mobile device network access control market with its own set of products, catering especially to environments such as campuses, where bring-your-own-device (BYOD) is common.
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New Servers Advance Dell Further into Data Center
Dell this week continued solidifying its position as an enterprise supplier of data center gear with the latest rollout of its PowerEdge servers. The firm said this 12th generation is the highest performing line it has yet delivered.
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OpenERP 6.1 Adopts Social Features, Expands Outlook Support
OpenERP has released a new version of its open source enterprise management software suite, which comprises 1,800 free applications for accounting, human resources, and other organization management needs.
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uMobile 1.1 RC1 Gets Performance Improvements, Shibboleth Authentication
Jasig has posted the first release candidate of uMobile 1.1. uMobile is an open source initiative to help educational institutions provide access to applications, media, and other data on mobile devices.
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Hybrid 'MASS' Storage Arrays Combine Solid State and Disk-Based Media
Tegile Systems, has released its new Zebi hybrid storage arrays. They support both SAN and NAS environments and can deduplicate cached data and compress data on the fly.
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