Data/Document Management
- BitLocker Password Exploit Is 'Very Unlikely,' Sisk Says
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8/29/2008
Redmond responded Tuesday to an independent security vendor's discovery of a hard-drive encryption vulnerability affecting Microsoft's BitLocker function, Intel/HP's BIOS and several other products and programs.
- California Community Colleges Partner with Waterfall Mobile on Statewide Emergency Notification Coverage
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8/28/2008
The Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC) has awarded a statewide emergency alert notification contract to Waterfall Mobile. The contract establishes Waterfall's AlertU as an approved technology through the official non-profit foundation for the California Community College (CCC) system office. Through this partnership, individual colleges may directly implement emergency communication services, eliminating lengthy technology evaluation and RFP processes.
- Vista Ramp Up Is Happening Now, Study Says
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8/28/2008
Organizations may have been slow to adopt Microsoft Windows Vista, but expect that to change by late 2008 to 2009, according to a Forrester Research report by Benjamin Gray et al., published last week.
- Talisma Launches New Version of CRM with Built-in Application Management
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8/28/2008
Talisma Corp. announced version 8.0 of its constituent relationship management (CRM) application for higher education. The new release includes application management, a revamped user interface, two-way text messaging, personalized Web portals, and an ADA-compliant Web client, among other enhancements.
- Let the Games Begin! Google vs. Microsoft
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8/27/2008
Pursuing a strategy as a consumer of services and choice, Drexel University has partnered with both Google and Microsoft to provide students with massive e-mail mailboxes, gigabytes of file storage with collaboration tools, Web-based calendars, personal blogs, and more.
- California Community Colleges Adopt SunGard Banner Software
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8/27/2008
California's Rio Hondo College and Sierra College have selected software from the Banner Unified Digital Campus and other solutions from SunGard Higher Education to help address their growing enrollments and to help improve student retention and services.
- Ball State U Web Sites Now Managed with Sitecore
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8/26/2008
Ball State University in Muncie, IN has gone public regarding its deployment of a Web site content management system from Sitecore. Ball State chose Sitecore's software to revamp its 220-plus sites, integrating common new media applications and garnering a next-generation user experience that has won several awards from education and new media marketing organizations. Now, Ball State maintains uniformity across all university Web sites and said it has enhanced its recruiting efforts through the site's new look and interface.
- Check Point Launches Security Line for Virtual Applications
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8/26/2008
Check Point Software Technologies announced VPN-1 Virtual Edition (VE), which delivers security for virtual applications.
- Oracle Releases Student Administration Integration Pack
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8/25/2008
Oracle has announced the availability of its PeopleSoft Enterprise Student Administration Integration Pack (SAIP). The announcement marks the release of the first product in the company's Academic Enterprise Solutions suite.
- Corralling Identity Management
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8/22/2008
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston recently reconstituted its IT organization to include a new team focused solely on identity management. In the course of its work the team may end up becoming a model for how identity management can help deliver business value beyond standard IT duties, such as adding new users to the network.
- Microsoft Details SharePoint-SQL 2008 Integration
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8/22/2008
Microsoft really wants SharePoint users to upgrade to SQL Server 2008, which was released to manufacturing Aug. 6. Tuesday, the company's SharePoint hosting and development blog pointed out that IT admins don't have to wait for the documentation to do so.
- Microsoft-Novell Linux Deal To Grow by $100 Million
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8/21/2008
Microsoft plans to pour an additional chunk of money into its business and open source technology collaboration with Novell, according to an announcement issued by the companies Wednesday. The deal calls for Microsoft to buy $100 million more in support certificates for Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Microsoft's expects to have the new investment in place by Nov. 1.
- Microsoft Changes Virtualization Licensing Rules
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8/20/2008
Microsoft has made substantial changes to its virtualization licensing program, changes that will lower the cost of using virtualization for many customers.
- Vorex Upgrades Web-based Data Collection Tool for Schools
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8/20/2008
Vorex has released an update to its Vorex Online Survey, a Web-based data collection tool designed to allow schools to collect information and gather feedback from education stakeholders.
- OOXML Reaffirmed, ISO/IEC Reject Appeals
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8/18/2008
The boards of the ISO and IEC standards bodies Friday rejected the appeals of four participating members (Brazil, India, South Africa, and Venezuela) that had questioned the process by which Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format specification was approved as an international standard, called "ISO/IEC 29500."
- Linux Application Checker Brings Distro Help
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8/15/2008
Linux application development has always been a tricky business. Although Linux is a solid platform, it is often hard for independent software vendors to develop and maintain packages for all distributions. In response, the Linux Foundation this month released an open beta of Linux Application Checker (AppChecker). The utility, now at Beta 3, helps work through differences between Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora, and more.
- SunGard HE Releases New Unified Digital Campus
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8/15/2008
SunGard Higher Education announced Monday the newest release of Banner Unified Digital Campus (UDC), which includes the Banner 8 administrative suite.
- U New Hampshire Consolidates Backup and Recovery Environments
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8/14/2008
The University of New Hampshire will deploy a new backup solution integrating a Sepaton virtual tape library (VTL) and DeltaStor software for data deduplication. The migration is part of a consolidation effort combining two separate backup and recovery environments into one disk-based storage infrastructure.
- Stephens College Automates Campus Administration with PowerCampus UDC
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8/14/2008
Stephens College, located in Columbia, MO, has chosen to replace its legacy administrative software with the PowerCampus Unified Digital Campus (UDC) from SunGard Higher Education. Built on Microsoft technologies and integrated with Microsoft Dynamics GP, PowerCampus UDC automates processes such as admissions, academic records, advancement, billing and cash receipts, financial aid, finance, and human resources, and provides portal and self-service tools.
- Skoobit Launches Online College Textbook Rental Service
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8/13/2008
Skoobit has developed a textbook rental system to allow college students to rent text books for months, semesters, or the year. College students will be able to rent any textbook for as long as needed with the simple commitment of returning it once they're done using it.
- Ultimus Releases New Version of Adaptive BPM
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8/13/2008
Ultimus has announced the release of Adaptive BPM Suite 8.1, the latest version of its business process management software. Topping the list of new features is a migration tool, allowing current users to upgrade business processes to the new version.
- vmSight Launches Connector ID For Thin Client VDI Deployments
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8/12/2008
vmSight has announced the availability of its Connector ID platform for thin clients used in virtual desktop environments. The solution is intended to help IT administrators manage virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments, as well as provide detailed virtual desktop user tracking.
- Microsoft, BearingPoint Team Up To Provide Risk-Based Compliance Solution
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8/11/2008
Microsoft has teamed up with BearingPoint to create the BearingPoint Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (EGRC) solution. The platform is built on Microsoft technology and capitalizes on the companies' long-standing relationship.
- Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 to Manufacturing
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8/7/2008
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing (RTM) and, as an evaluation edition, to subscribers of its Microsoft Development Network and TechNet services, the company announced Wednesday.
- It IS about Technology: Integrating Higher Ed into Knowledge Culture
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8/6/2008
For more than twenty years, we educational technologists have talked about "integrating information technology into higher education." The implication was that education would stay the same and information technology would benignly slip in and cause no ruckus at all. This rhetoric no longer applies, if it ever did, and does a disservice to us as we work through the intricacies of this age.
