Case Study
- After several unsuccessful applications for a Title III grant with the United States Department of Education, Mount Ida College refined its approach to grant writing. The result? Last July, the college not only landed the $1.72 million ED award for infrastructure improvements, but it landed two others in the same week, which, combined, represented the largest sum ever received by the college. While there's no one approach to successful grant writing, Mount Ida's David Healy offers some insight gleaned from these recent successes.More
IT News
- Higher education IT budgets in the United States took another hit in 2009, with almost half of institutions reporting budget cuts this academic year, according to research released Wednesday by the Campus Computing Project.More
- Microsoft is using the Educause conference this week to crow about wins in the cloud computing arena--including new higher ed customers for both its Live@edu offering and its Business Productivity Online Suite.More
- Six months after acquiring malware detection company Avinti, security vendor M86 Security has gone shopping again, this time acquiring Finjan, which sells Web gateway appliances and software. More
- In the face of explosive data growth on campus a consortium of colleges and universities concerned about their institutions' abilities to recover data and applications has formed a new council dedicated to the topic.More
- Blackboard and Microsoft have joined forces to offer students access to information from their online courses on Web browsers. More
- University of the Arts London recently selected and deployed four load balancer appliances from A10 Networks to create a new Web architecture that optimizes content delivery.More
- St. Bernard Software has released a new version of its Web security appliance and provided a preview of a new mobile security service.More
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