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- Virtualisation Gets Top Honours From New South African University
- North-West University is one of the larger universities in South Africa with approximately 43,000 students. The new educational establishment is the result of the merger of three former institutions, and this has created a complex organisational structure spread across four rural campuses up to 300km apart. Creating an IT infrastructure...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., North-West University, Utility Computing, Blade Servers, Virtualization, Mergers & Acquisitions, Servers, Storage Management, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware, Investment, Finance, Storage
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- Computer Lab to Go: A "Cloud" Computing Implementation
- This paper describes the experience with a pilot deployment of a virtual computer laboratory at a medium sized public university. The virtual computer laboratory pilot is a technology transfer of the virtual computer laboratory developed by North Carolina State University. The technology provides scalable, high performance computing resources requested through...
- Tags: North Carolina State University, Computer, Computer Laboratory, Productivity, Cloud Computing
- White papers 2009-09-20
- North Carolina Sports 2.0 (Mobile)
- North Carolina Sports brings you college sports news from across the state of North Carolina. Follow the latest news and access schedules, scores, rosters, and player biographies right from your iPhone. Coverage includes football, basketball, field hockey, lacrosse, volleyball, baseball, softball, and soccer for the Duke University Blue Devils, University...
- Tags: Mobile, North Carolina, Grataware, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-09-18
- Tailoring Web technology to a bespoke dress shirt business
- It's not easy to mix up the monotony of putting on a shirt and a tie every day for work, but what if the shirt was made-to-order, with details of your own choosing? Fashion startup ShirtsMyWay allows you to spruce up your tired work uniform and customize...
- Tags: Web Technology, Web, Women, Denmark, Gender And Diversity, AJAX, Human Resources, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Academic Competition Leads the Way to a New Electric Car
- The University of Ontario Institute of Technology UOIT is one of 17 North American Universities participating in EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge, a three-year engineering competition established by the United States Department of Energy and General Motors, and managed by Argonne National Laboratory. The challenge was to integrate an electric motor...
- Tags: Car, Electric Car, Siemens AG, Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Iran protests meet the social Web: What we've learned
- Iran protests meet the social Web: What we've learnedOne thing we have also learnedis that liberals are just as naive and ignorant as they have always been.Anyone who thought this election meant anything at all was a naive fool. Anyone who thinks this will end in any other way than...
- Tags: Government, Dictatorships, social Web
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Geo-engineering can save this planet
- Geo-engineering can save this planetToo funnyI love it, socialism and government control of your daily life.Nothing like United Socialist States of Amerika....Population control is a better targetIf that kind of money was spent educating people about overpopulation - and how the earth can only support a finite number of humans...
- Tags: Contraception, Wood, Geo-engineering
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- News to know: Facebook; Psystar Chapter 11; Intel; Twitter API; Nokia's Ovi Store
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Facebook snares $200 million investment from Russian investor Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Psystar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., API, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Twitter, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operational Planning, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- CRN: The Value of Storage Consolidation
- When storage solution provider VeriStor Systems, Duluth, Ga.,bid on consolidating the storage environment at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., it put its reputation and its money behind an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. The university was trying to keep more than 50 servers with direct-attached storage up and running....
- Tags: Storage Consolidation, Dell EqualLogic, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-05-08
- Students report late lecturers via text messaging
- Students at Manchester Metropolitan University in the north of England now have an opportunity to report lecturers who are more than ten minutes late in class. It seems to be a constant issue which student unions are trying to address with late lecturers not being able to teach the entire...
- Tags: Union, Student, Text Messaging, Time Management, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Podcasts, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Productivity, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Poop power, the old dream revisited
- Poop power, the old dream revisitedMother Earth NewsThey could save some research and read that mid-70's favorite of the hippies counter culture - The Mother Earth News.TMEN also published an article about a hydraulic regenerative energy system for a VW beetle that got 107 mpg ... University of Oregon did...
- Tags: Mother Earth News, Poop
- Discussion threads 2009-04-06
- Polar meltdown both north and south
- Arctic Ice Cover maps. Courtesy University of Washington/NOAA. That's the March ice cover on the left, September on the right. The top pair show current conditions, the bottom maps show thirty year model: ice free summers. The U.S. Geological Survey has compiled data confirming...
- Tags: Earth, Meltdown, Glacier, Sea Level, Ice Sheet, Sea Ice, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-04
- University of Waikato Supports 3,000 E-Learning Communities With Flexible New Portal
- Founded in 1964, the University of Waikato is home to 12,000 students and 1,500 staff on campuses in Hamilton and Tauranga, on New Zealand's North Island. The rapidly increasing number of e-learning systems and applications resulted in a complex and fragmented environment. The challenge was to unify and leverage all...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., E-learning, Portals, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- The Open Cloud Manifesto: Whats Up With That?
- This morning, to a lot of pre-launch buzz, the Open Cloud Manifesto OCM, spearheaded by IBM, launched officially, much to no one's surprise. The idea behind the OCM is that there exist a body consisting of many companies - and in the future, many, many companies, that would semi-formally agree...
- Tags: Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Iceland could become a green hub for global cloud computing
- Iceland is in a bit of trouble these days, its economy collapsed last year when its three largest banks failed. And so now it is being bailed out by the International Monetary Fund and trying to get its economy on an even keel. One of Iceland's most...
- Tags: Geothermal Energy, Data Center, Aluminum, Iceland, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- Mussel "glue" and inkjet printers may make for faster healing from surgeries
- The adhesive protein mussels create allow them to stick tenaciously to virtually any type of material, including rocks, glass, metals, and wood. Now, researchers at North Carolina State University found a way to use this natural mussel glue along with a variation on the inkjet printer to make medical adhesives...
- Tags: Printer, Inkjet Printer, Biomedical, Surgery, Printing, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Ice, Swine, and Sun
- The last third of BIT's introduction to the Unix and Open Source Culture ran on Friday, February 27th - and drew one comment, a click-by sneering unrelated to the thing's content: The bottom line is ... Sun's SPARC...
- Tags: Ice, Sun Microsystems Inc., George, Sea Ice, Junknstuff, Blogging, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Internet, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-07
- Innovation and competition
- The topic of how America competes economically in the present world has raised some crucial issues. Is there not a disconnect says one reader between innovation and competition? The best products and the best producers are NOT NECESSARILY THE SUCCESSFUL ONES. This talkback makes a solid point...
- Tags: Innovation, Pollution, Offshoring, Product Win, Leadership, Outsourcing, Strategy, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-01
- University of North Texas Harnesses the Power of IBM Cognos to Improve Efficiency
- The University of North Texas UNT is a recognized student-centered public research university that harnesses the power of ideas through a culture of learning based on diverse viewpoints, interdisciplinary endeavors, creativity and disciplined excellence. It needed to deliver information to decision-makers in a quick-access, easy-to-use form. It deployed BI solution...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Data Warehouse, University Corp., IBM Corp., Business Intelligence, Portals, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Internet, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-02-25
- University students sends city of Canterbury to the dial-up age
- With three universities, two colleges and multiple schools all arriving back at their desks at the same point in time, especially the migration of students flocking back to the city, has left my home, the historic city of Canterbury, with crawling broadband speeds. I don't often write...
- Tags: Network, Student, Broadband, University Student, Canterbury, UKC, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
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