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- University Adopts Unified Communications to Improve Education, Streamline Operations
- The University of Kentucky is a full-service academic and research institution that serves 27,000 students on the Lexington campus and thousands more in remote locations across the state. To help professors and students communicate more seamlessly and to cost-effectively make the university's resources available to more people across the state,...
- Tags: Education, Streamline, University, Unified Communications, University Of Kentucky, Microsoft Corp., Instant Messaging, Strategy, Internet, Online Communications, Management
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Separating Routing and Forwarding: A Clean-Slate Network Layer Design
- This paper presents a "Clean-slate" design for a network-layer routing and forwarding system intended to address shortcomings of the current Internet Protocol. The design separates routing from both forwarding and topology discovery; requires only a flat, topology-independent namespace; and allows for policies of both users and service providers to be...
- Tags: University Of Kentucky, Abstraction, Business Services, Networking
- White papers 2007-07-16
- Carbon nanotubes speed up fluids
- According to a University of Kentucky news release, researchers have shown that carbon nanotube CNT membranes with pores measuring 7 nanometers in diameter "permit a fluid flow nearly 10,000 to 100,000 times faster than conventional fluid flow theory would predict because of the nanotubes' nearly friction-free surface." As the fabrication...
- Tags: membrane
- Blog posts 2005-11-13
- Patch Management and Virus Protection Policy
- Due to the continually increasing dependence of University systems on the security and integrity of the computer network, servers, and workstations, it has become vitally important that the University be more proactive about identifying and enforcing security standards. In particular, university computers must be properly patched with the latest appropriate...
- Tags: Virus Protection, Patch Management, University Of Kentucky, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- White papers 2003-09-19
- University of Kentucky Improves Collaboration on Chemistry Research With Powerful Virtualization Solution
- The University of Kentucky is a public university dedicated to enriching people's lives through excellence in teaching, research, and service. They needed to offer the capacity for increasing levels of research, achieve highest performance available for computational chemistry applications and wanted to become one of the top 20 public universities...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Collaboration, Supercomputer, University Of Kentucky, Utility Computing, Servers, Databases, Processors, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies
- Automated Home Directory Management and Storage Provisioning With Novell Nsure and Condrey Consulting Corporation's File System Factory
- In 2002, the University of Kentucky's IT department considered undertaking a large internal development project that involved writing custom software to automatically create user directories and allocate personal storage on the NetWare platform to over 35,000 students. The university's automated account creation process for eDirectory worked well, but it didn't...
- Tags: Storage Provisioning, Novell Inc., File System, University, Novell Nsure, University Of Kentucky, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- University of Kentucky Uses File System Factory With Novell eDirectory and NetWare to Provide Automated Home Directory Management & Storage Provisioning
- In 2002, the University of Kentucky's IT department considered undertaking a large internal development project that involved writing custom software to automatically create user directories and allocate personal storage on the NetWare platform to over 35,000 students. The university's automated account creation process for eDirectory worked well, but it didn't...
- Tags: Storage Provisioning, Novell Inc., File System, University, University Of Kentucky, Novell eDirectory, Novell NetWare, Storage, Directory Services, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- University of Kentucky Accelerates Research Progress With Intel Processor-Based HPC Clusters
- Underpowered supercomputers are a distinct liability if your goals are to speed up scientific research and move up the ranks of computational science leaders. That's why the University of Kentucky's (UK's) Center for Computational Sciences the Center replaced the PA-RISC processors in its two-year old, 220-node HP Superdome computer with...
- Tags: University Of Kentucky, Intel Corp., Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
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- The future of tech IPOs
- At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, Frank Quattrone, co-founder of Qatalyst, talks about the dismal condition of the current IPO market, why venture capitalist backed companies are not going public right now, and what the future holds.
- Tags: IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Venture Capital, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Tech IPOs
- Videos 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...
- Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- Showing you some of the gadgets college and university students really shouldn't live without. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Student, Zack Whittaker, Gadgets, University, Pen drive, Cell phone, Laptop, Computer
- Image galleries 2008-07-25
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Is open source hurt by piracy?
- Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship
- NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...
- Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines
- In a direct challenge to the popular Wikipedia, Google opened Knol, an encyclopedia-like wiki site that requires writers to post their names and expertise. SAN FRANCISCO--Google opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a...
- Tags: Google Inc., DuPont Co., Web Site, Wikipedia, Knol, Wiki, Online Communications, Reuters, Google, encyclopedia
- News items 2008-07-24
- Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875 is a thoroughly average, entry-level laptop. It wasn't too long ago that an average, entry-level laptop meant one that was underpowered and shabbily...
- Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite, Toshiba Satellite L305-S5875, laptop computer
- Product reviews 2008-07-23
- 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws
- In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...
- Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Is this the New Apple?
- PowerPage podcaster Youngmoo Kim relays his experience with trying to get an iPhone 3G and on being an "IRU" Individual Responsible User. Apple just doesn't want me to have an iPhone 3G. After a few half-hearted attempts bailing at the sight of long lines, I spent about two hours...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., IRU, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- 10 hard drive disasters
- Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company. Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard...
- Tags: Hard Drive, hard drives, data recovery, Dan Ilett, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-07-22
- The key barrier to health care reform
- The key barrier to health care reformReducing residenciesHey, at least Georgia [b]has[/b] residencies. Arizona's University Hospital has, thanks to Andrew Weil, turned all of its general practice residencies into NCCAAM-funded "alternative health care" training programs.If you think it's bad now, wait until your insurance only covers "therapeutic touch" and...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, barrier, health care, residency, physician
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
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