Campus Technology: Universities Access Cloud Compute Cluster for NSF Funded Research

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4/28/2009

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Universities Access IBM/Google Cloud Compute Cluster for NSF-Funded Research
The National Science Foundation recently announced approximately $5 Million in new grants to universities to access and continue research using the IBM/Google cloud computing cluster, bringing the number of universities with NSF Cluster Exploratory (CLuE) program grants to 14.More
Avnet Games Winners Showcase Tech Prowess
The Avnet Tech Games are over, and nine of the 57 student teams that entered from Arizona colleges and universities have won scholarships for proving their abilities to work through real-life technology challenges.The Avnet Tech Games are over, and nine of the 57 student teams that entered from Arizona colleges and universities have won scholarships for proving their abilities to work through real-life technology challenges.More
IBM DB2 Will Target Oracle Database Developers
IBM this week announced a new version of its flagship DB2 database with software that will provide compatibility with applications built for Oracle databases.More
Israeli College Outsources IT with Ness Tech
Israel's Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa has signed a three-year, multi-million-dollar outsourcing contract with service provider Ness Technologies to maintain the college's current infrastructure and develop future IT systems and applications. Ness has operations in Israel, as well as the United States and other countries.More

CollegeBound and Intelliworks Partner for College Lead Generation and Prospect Management
The CollegeBound Network (CBN) is partnering with Intelliworks, a provider of relationship management solutions for higher education, to provide schools with a lead generation platform designed to improve student conversions. CBN specializes in recruitment lead generation solutions for 900 educational institutions and 3,500 campuses through portals that include CollegeSurfing.com and TopCareerSchools.com.More
Liberty U Opens Public Certification Testing Center
Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA has opened up a public testing center to allow people in the area to take certification exams from companies that include Microsoft, Cisco, Apple, and Oracle.More
MySQL Adds Scalability to Open Source Database
The same week Oracle announced plans to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, MySQL, one of Sun's own recent acquisitions, unveiled the next version of its popular open source database.More
CDW-G Launches Tools To Assess Virtualization Needs
Is your data center ripe for virtualization? New assessment services from CDW Government (CDW-G) have been launched to help answer just that question.More

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