Feature
As Charlotte School of Law experienced exponential growth in its first few years, the IT department's time and resources began to be disproportionately consumed with help requests and configuration management tasks, all of which had to be handled manually. So the team turned to an automated, appliance-based solution. According to IT Director Ryan Haylock, the result was a $400,000 return on investment within 30 days and newfound freedom for the IT team to pursue bigger and more meaningful projects. More
IT News
Blackboard is expanding its footprint in the services and support arena with the purchase of Presidium, a company that provides call center support services to hundreds of higher education clients. MoreIn an effort to support electronic learning initiatives on and off its campus, a small college in rural South Carolina will be overhauling its IT infrastructure with a new wired and wireless network. MoreOne year after announcing a $250 million, three-year pact to deliver next-generation data center technology, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft this week unveiled five appliances that offer Exchange and SQL Server in turnkey configurations. MoreGustavus Adolphus College has turned to a Web-based system to help manage safety and emergency information. The private liberal arts college, which is based in St. Peter, MN, will also use the application to strengthen its coordination with first responders and manage training of its public safety officers. MoreTwo competitors in the wireless networking market are joining forces. Aerohive Networks has acquired Pareto Networks and will begin integrating Pareto's network-as-a-service technology into its own products and services. MoreVersion 5.5 of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit was released early this week. MoreTeamDynamixHE has released a major upgrade to its project and portfolio management tool, TeamDynamixHE 7. MoreMeraki is taking Cisco head-on and entering the wired networking gear space with the release of two new routers intended for branch deployment. However, the company, which up until now has specialized in catering to the wireless space, continues its practice of pushing device management into the cloud. More
|