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News Update
July 1, 2008
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- News: U Illinois Urbana-Champaign Named CUDA Center of Excellence
- Wake Forest U Aims To Reduce Note Taking with Classroom Capture
- SharePoint Takes Center Stage at Catalyst Event
- The Wharton School Beefs Up Data Center with Blade Servers
- New Vendor Consortium Pushes for Digital Information Card
- eBureau, Datamark Partner for Enrollment Predictive Modeling
- VMware Finds Home on Campus in Disaster Recovery Planning
- Australian Schools Boot Microsoft for Google Gmail
- Vista SP1 ‘Update’ Released for OS Reliability
- Events:Keep up with your peers!
- Online Resources:CRM Made Easy: A Practical Step-by-Step Approach and What You Need to Know
News
U Illinois Urbana-Champaign Named CUDA Center of Excellence
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has been named Nvidia’s first CUDA «Center of Excellence» for adopting parallel computing strategies and applying them to research. The university also said it has received $500,000 from Nvidia to support ongoing research and to help develop parallel computing facilities.
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Wake Forest U Aims To Reduce Note Taking with Classroom Capture
Students taking a course in venture capital at Wake Forest University have, over the last semester, benefited from the use of Recordant audio-capture technology that allows Web-based archiving, searching, and playback of course lectures. The university said one of the goals was to get students to close their notebooks and focus on comprehension, secure that they’d be able to access the captured lectures later on.
SharePoint Takes Center Stage at Catalyst Event
The Burton Group put the spotlight on Microsoft’s SharePoint Server 2007 product on Thursday at its Catalyst Conference 2008 event. The analyst and consulting group allocated no less than five panels at the San Diego-based event to discuss SharePoint for the enterprise. The panels focused on the solution’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as the importance of partner support in implementing SharePoint.
The Wharton School Beefs Up Data Center with Blade Servers
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has a new data center built on Dell PowerEdge M600 blade servers and EqualLogic PS5000X storage arrays. The data center will allow the school to triple both its mailbox quota and the storage capacity available to faculty and students, as well as provide researchers the ability to operate a Linux grid cluster powered by the blade servers.
New Vendor Consortium Pushes for Digital Information Card
A new vendor consortium focused on promoting industry-wide adoption of online digital identities has been established by Microsoft, Google, Oracle, PayPal, Novell, Equifax, and nine other companies. Its founders say the Information Card Foundation (ICF) hopes to unite industry efforts and vendor products to create Internet-enabled digital identities using information cards.
eBureau, Datamark Partner for Enrollment Predictive Modeling
Information solutions provider eBureau and direct response advertising agency Datamark have announced a strategic partnership to use predictive modeling to evaluate online leads purchased by Datamark on behalf of its education clientele.
VMware Finds Home on Campus in Disaster Recovery Planning
Three colleges–Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom–have gone public with their use of virtualization software from VMware to manage growth and prepare for disaster recovery.
Australian Schools Boot Microsoft for Google Gmail
Google seems to have bested Microsoft in the land down under, according to various accounts of an Australian public school system e-mail contract deal. The deal, announced Tuesday, ousts an e-mail system based on Microsoft’s products in favor of using Google’s Gmail.
Vista SP1 ‘Update’ Released for OS Reliability
Three months after the initial release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft has issued what it calls a «reliability update» to sweep out any glitches that may pop up in a complex stack of applications on the new OS version.
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WEBINAR: Smarter Wi-Fi for Education (June 22 at 10 a.m. PDT)
With limited IT staff and budgets, schools still desperately need a robust wireless infrastructure to support staff, students, guests and a myriad of applications. Many schools don’t even have pervasive Ethernet cabling to build a ubiquitous Wi-Fi network. This Webinar details how advances made with 802.11 technology, such as wireless meshing and smart antenna arrays, are helping schools, colleges and universities more efficiently and cost effectively build robust wireless infrastructures without going broke or crazy. The session will include real-world case studies from schools that have learned the hard way how to do more for less.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sakai Foundation 9th Sakai Conference
Paris, France
Jul 1-3, 2008
CIC: Network for Effective Language Learning (NELL) Summer Meeting
Tacoma, WA
Jul 7-11, 2008
AACRAO 2008 Technology Conference
Baltimore, MD
Jul 10-12, 2008
NACUBO 2008 Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL
Jul 12-15, 2008
ACUTA 37th Annual Conference and Exhibition
Las Vegas, NV
Jul 13-17, 2008
CIC: 2008 Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission Seminar ? Presidents Program
Bradford, PA
Jul 13-16, 2008
Stephen Northcutt Presents SANS Atlanta Summer 2008
Atlanta, Georgia
Jul 14-18, 2008
ONLINE RESOURCES
- CRM Made Easy: A Practical Step-by-Step Approach and What You Need to Know
Sponsored by: Azorus
See how your institution can achieve meaningful results instantly by adopting CRM best practices. - Webcast: Distribute Financial Aid Refunds More Effectively
Sponsored by HigherOne Learn how to improve student services with electronic refund distribution payments. Experts from Kennesaw State University and Universal Card Services Center detail KSU’s migration to One Disburse Refund Management, and the immediate and long-term benefits they have realized as a result in this free, hour-long session sponsored by HigherOne. - Webinar: Reducing Costs Through Strategic Financial Management
Sponsored by Oracle
Integrating budget planning and reporting systems across campus departments enabled Santa Clara University to streamline its financial management processes and get senior management involved in budget planning. - Webinar: Trends and Best Practices for E-mail Security
Sponsored by: IronPort
Campus Technology’s Linda Briggs leads a panel discussion with experts from Cisco’s IronPort and Eastern Illinois University as they discuss current and future trends and outline the benefits of implementing a gateway email security solution. - More resources
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