Executive View
Thomas Jefferson University, an institution with an academic health center and an affiliated teaching hospital, is using an encryption strategy to keep sensitive data secure and avoid the hardship of data breaches. More
Worth Noting
AVAI Special Systems has partnered with 1105 Media to create a productivity app for use at Campus Technology Forum 2011. The company will also launch its new OnCampus Mobile application suite at the event taking place in Long Beach, CA September 27-29. MoreThe Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) has announced plans to build and deploy a high performance computing (HPC) system, called Stampede, which will have a peak performance of 10 petaflops, 272 terabytes of memory, and 14 petabytes of disk storage. MoreIntel has demonstrated its concept Hybrid Memory Cube, which is seven times more energy efficient than current DDR3 memory and has the highest data rates ever available in a single Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) device. MoreOracle has unveiled its new SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, a general purpose engineered solution that combines Oracle SPARC T4-4 servers, Oracle Exadata Storage Servers, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, ZFS Storage Appliances, InfiniBand I/O fabric, and the Oracle Solaris operating system into a single infrastructure solution designed for running a wide range of enterprise applications with high levels of performance and reliability. MoreFollowing a test run with 2,000 undergraduate students last year, East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, will deploy Starfish systems campuswide to its 27,000 students beginning this fall semester. MoreDesire2Learn has partnered with ReadSpeaker to increase the usability and accessibility of the Desire2Learn learning platforms. MoreCollege and university admissions offices can now track social media conversations and use this chatter as a means for recruiting and building relationships with students, thanks to a new customer relationship management (CRM) tool from TargetX. MoreThe Technological Leadership Institute in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering is hosting the First Annual Cyber Security Summit on October 3. MoreThe science resource site Sciencia.org has now become a crowdsourced social network that synthesizes the latest scientific news, studies, and resources from journals, books, and websites into something resembling Wikipedia meets a Facebook News Feed. More
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