Data/Document Management
- St. John's U Outsources Admissions Document Management to DataBank
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6/3/2008
Following on a business process management analysis across multiple school operations, Queens, NY-based St. John's University has decided to outsource its admissions application process to DataBank, a service provider that performs document scanning and management. The school was compelled to find an outside vendor after experiencing a 65 percent increase in admissions applications over a five-year period.
- Adobe Intros Acrobat 9, Launches Acrobat.com Beta
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6/2/2008
Adobe Monday announced details of its forthcoming major revision to the entire Acrobat family: Acrobat 9. The company also debuted a new Acrobat.com collaboration beta site and announced an updated Creative Suite (version 3.3), which will incorporate the upcoming Acrobat 9 Pro software.
- Cerritos College Launches Web-based Student Center with PeopleSoft Upgrade
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6/2/2008
Norwalk, CA-based Cerritos College said it has completed a major IT system upgrade--on time and under budget--after partnering with Ciber Enterprise Solutions.
- More VMware Buzz on B-hive Acquisition Announcement
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5/30/2008
When you have most of the marbles, it never hurts to have a few more. For industry leader VMware, the challenge is well defined: Stay ahead of the pack by maintaining market share; keep building the value-added areas of virtualization where high growth is most likely to take place; fill gaps in the existing portfolio; and move toward the company's vision of automated virtual data centers.
- Update Blocker Expires This Month for Windows Server 2003 SP2
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5/30/2008
Redmond is discontinuing its update blocker tool function for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 users, Microsoft announced this week. Automatic Updates will commence starting in June.
- Windows 7 Demo Focuses on Touch Interface
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5/28/2008
A touch user interface turned out to be the big surprise in Windows 7, the latest operating system being developed by Microsoft. The OS is expected to appear in either late 2009 or early 2010, but it was demonstrated last night at "D6: All Things Digital," a Wall Street Journal-sponsored event being held this week in Carlsbad, Calif. The demo was part of stage appearance by Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer.
- Live@edu Integrates Exchange Labs
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5/27/2008
Microsoft's Live@edu, a suite of online tools focused specifically toward education, has now been expanded to include Exchange Labs, which is similar to a hosted Exchange service but with prototype features that are not yet available to the general public. The move brings expanded e-mail options to campus IT departments, including 10 GB of space per account, as free added features.
- Office Live Workspace Beta Released Internationally
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5/23/2008
Microsoft this week released an international beta of its Office Live Workspace (OLW) suite of productivity tools. The company also quietly launched an Office Live Update last week that takes on performance issues and brings in some additional functionality when working with Office 2007, XP, and 2003.
- Randolph College Virtualizes on SAN
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5/22/2008
Randolph College, formerly Randolph-Macon Women's College, has upgraded its storage to an IP-based storage area network (SAN) from StoneFly. The Lynchburg, VA-based school implemented the StoneFly Hybrid Storage Concentrator (HSC), an iSCSI SAN with 8 TB of capacity, after evaluating solutions from several vendors.
- Microsoft's High Performance Computing Server 2008 Beta 2 Debuts
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5/22/2008
This weekend Microsoft announced the release of High Performance Computing Server 2008 (HPC Server 2008) Beta 2, the next-generation version of Compute Cluster Server 2003.
- Microsoft To Adopt ODF, Take Role in Format Development
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5/21/2008
Microsoft Wednesday posted plans for expanding file format support in the next major revision of Office 2007. The move follows charges from the ODF Alliance and the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) that Microsoft has been stifling options for users by favoring its own OOXML format.
- New Hyper-V Release Candidate Out
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5/21/2008
Microsoft has published a new release candidate (RC2) of its first enterprise-class hypervisor, Hyper-V. The release marks the next step of what has been a quick march to commercial availability for a critical product in Microsoft's emerging virtualization lineup.
- Shanghai's Tongji U Overhauls Network, Deploys Load Balancing Software
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5/21/2008
Tongji University in Shanghai has deployed Radware AppDirector 3020, a load balancing utility, as part of the overhaul of its campus network. With 78,660 students and staff, the campus network covers 17 network systems, including portals, authentication, and student management. The goal of the overhaul was to address network overload, uneven traffic distribution, and server instability, the school said in a statement.
- Citrix Takes On VMware with XenDesktop
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5/20/2008
With a tiered pricing structure designed to undercut VMware's offerings, Citrix has announced the availability of XenDesktop, its much anticipated and discussed product offering in the increasingly important desktop virtualization arena. At the company's Synergy event in Houston, it also took the wraps off of some important product portfolio details.
- Maryland Institute College of Art Upgrades Administrative Systems To Manage Growth
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5/19/2008
The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), a private art college in Baltimore, has upgraded to Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0. MICA completed a move to PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management, Campus Solutions, Contributor Relations, and Enterprise Portal and is now upgrading to Enterprise Financial Management 9.0.
- Alliance Weighs In on Microsoft Interoperability in Education
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5/19/2008
Last week, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency referred a complaint to the EC about the impact of Microsoft's interoperability issues in education. Now the ODF Alliance is stepping in with support for Becta's move.
- Beta Version of Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool Now Available
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5/19/2008
Microsoft has released a beta version of its Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool on the Microsoft Connect site. The intent of the software is to maintain up-to-date operating systems, servers and applications for large numbers of virtual machine environments, according to information posted on TechNet.
- Microsoft Expands Education Footprint in Asia Pacific Region
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5/15/2008
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced new partnerships to extend accessibility and computer literacy in the Asia Pacific region during a speech in Jakarta at a government leader gathering earlier this week.
- U.K. Education Group Escalates Microsoft Complaints
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5/14/2008
A consultancy to the U.K. government has forwarded complaints about Microsoft's licensing and interoperability practices to the European Commission (EC), according to an announcement issued by the Becta consulting group Monday.
- VBA To Return to Mac; Office 2008 SP1 Released
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5/13/2008
Microsoft Tuesday released Service Pack 1 for Office 2008 for Mac, the first major update to what the company called its most successful Mac Office launch in 19 years (in terms of sales volume). In a surprise move, Microsoft's Mac Business Unit also announced that it plans to bring Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) back to the Mac platform with the next major release.
- Student Retention: Are Schools Taking Advantage of Technology?
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5/13/2008
College and university administrators consider personal attention to be the most critical factor in retaining at risk students. But what role should technology play in the effort?
- U Wisconsin Research Center Migrates to iSCSI SAN
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5/13/2008
The University of Wisconsin Center for Health Systems Research & Analysis has chosen the StorMagic SM Series, an iSCSI-based Storage Area Network (SAN) hardware and software solution to replace a legacy storage system.
- American Samoa CC Upgrades Administration Management
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5/12/2008
American Samoa Community College has gone public with its intention to buy software and services from Datatel to build an administrative system and enhance services to its community of users. The school will be using Datatel Colleague and ActiveCampus Portal to replace a legacy system.
- Business Intelligence Tool Means Healthy Data at UVA
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5/8/2008
University IT groups will recognize the challenge of combining disparate data from more than one department in order to create meaningful reports for various users. At the University of Virginia Department of Medicine, which is overseen by UVA's School of Medicine, data was coming from two very different accounting systems, which meant problems for faculty members whenever they needed to run reports.
- Graduate School, USDA Standardizes on Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro for E-learning
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5/8/2008
The Graduate School, USDA has standardized on Acrobat Connect Pro, a Web conferencing and e-learning platform from Adobe Systems. The school is a self-sustaining government entity created 87 years ago by the United States Department of Agriculture to provide adult continuing education.
