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James Madison University Celebrates Its Centennial by Replacing Its HP Servers With Green, Power Efficient Dell Servers

James Madison University needed to ensure high availability for its Oracle database and PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system, as well as provide reliable desktops and notebooks for students and staff. The university purchased Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell/ EMC storage and Oracle Real Application Clusters RAC software for a redundant,...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., James Madison University, Dell Server, Blade Servers, Servers, Data Centers, Notebooks, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Software

Case studies 2008-09-01

James Madison University Pilots Dell-Based Data Collection Solution to Reach Prospective Students

Nestled in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Harrisonburg, Virginia, James Madison University JMU upholds its mission to help students reach their full potential well beyond their college careers. The JMU admissions team wanted to strengthen communication with prospective students by shortening the time between speaking with high school students at...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Recruiting, James Madison University, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2008-01-01

Developing Video Streaming Service Across Campuses: The VIVA Experience

The Virtual Library of Virginia VIVA is a publicly supported consortium of libraries at 71 public and private, non-profit higher education institutions in Virginia USA. Members include research universities, liberal arts colleges and 2-year colleges. VIVA has been in existence for over a dozen years. VIVA is guided by three...

Tags: College, PBS, Streaming Video, James Madison University, Virginia, VIVA, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Marketing, Internet, Personal Technology

White papers 2007-02-12

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CollegeNET ends the thick/thin letter game

Do you remember the waiting game after you'd applied to college? Checking the mail every day, waiting for that letter? Would it be thick or thin? Because everyone knew that a thin letter would read somewhere along the lines of "We regret to inform you that you do not...

Tags: Game, Admission, CollegeNET, E-mail, Portals, Web Technology, Internet, Sales Force Management, Online Communications, Sales, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-22

FCC hearings: Comcast versus Vuze

The FCC held its hearing on Comcast's Network Management practices at Harvard University yesterday.  Vuze executive Gilles BianRosa whose company filed one of the two FCC complaints against Comcast reportedly told the FCC yesterday that BitTorrent does not hog bandwidth.  Since most Internet experts would dispute that claim, I generated the...

Tags: FCC, Bandwidth, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Broadband Provider, Broadband, Vuze, Congestion Problem, Free Press, Broadband Internet, Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Rural teachers find GPS hits the spot

Rurals schools took a leap into the future recently when 21 of their teachers from around the country met to learn how to use global positioning systems GPS and geographic information systems GIS. According to DNR Online, the teachers met at James Madison University as part of a new program...

Tags: teacher, GPS

Blog posts 2006-07-24

Software, as a service, on a client

Want to rent out a Linux application that can run on an ordinary Windows box with VMWare?Keith Boswell right has a deal for you.Boswell is vp-marketing with rPath, a company that has turned $6.4 million in venture capital into rBuilder, which does what I just described.Let's let Boswell explain it...

Tags: Linux

Blog posts 2006-02-22

Sun wins injunction against MS in Java dispute

Sun wins injunction against MS in Java disputeJohn T. Chambers must goVia my blog at http://www.newerawisp.blogspot.comYesterday I asked readers accross the Internet to write to John T. Chambers, President of Cisco Systems regarding Black Hat confrence and Michael Lynn Saga. since then Things at Cisco systems moved in the negative...

Tags: Java, Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., NetSolve

Discussion threads 2005-07-30