IT Assets and Hardware for the Campus Enterprise

Learning Occurs Anytime, Anywhere…and Your Network Should Be There Too

What does it mean to educate tomorrow's citizens? Today’s tech-savvy world demands students and educators leverage every learning opportunity that comes their way, using available technology to access information no matter where or when learning occurs. Supporting this education-rich environment can be complicated, especially when openness, mobility, convergence, scalability, interoperability and security are required from your network. When you add such stakeholder needs as disaster planning and recovery, emergency notification, flexible learning, collaboration capabilities as well as effective use of technology in the classroom, you’ve got a worthwhile challenge to find an all-in-one network solution.

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Computing Clusters: Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

By Dian Schaffhauser

The idea of cluster computing is elegant. Rack up a bunch of CPUs from off the shelf and get them processing in lock step to knock out hard research problems. Of course, the details are more complex than that, as two high-performance computing centers share in this article.

IT Asset Management >> Watch Your Assets

By Linda L. Briggs

Don't send your money down the, well, you know. Asset management tools can save dollars wasted by expiring leases and redundant licenses, but they can also team up with network management and security tools for the ultimate in control.

Digital Libraries >> 'Opening' A Digital Library

By Matt Villano

Digital libraries are not new, but open source, video, and collaborative digital repositories are changing the face of library science.

Managing and Securing Classroom Technology Assets

By Jim Gregory

The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities needed a system that would reduce maintenance costs and improve classroom uptime.

Evolving Strategies for Campus Network Infrastructure

By Brian D. Voss

Brian D. Voss, Indiana University We are all part of a global community of scholars that relies on a communications infrastructure. We need to think about, and support with our campus networking strategies, the types of pervasive technology that are quickly becoming integrated into all our working and learning environments.

INNOVATOR 2005: Case Western Reserve University

Challenge: In January 2003, Case Western Reserve University’s (OH) then-new President, Edward M. Hundert, challenged university leadership to engage with the community, and help Case become the best university neighbor any city ever had.