May 8, 2008

In This Issue

• Case Study:Business Intelligence Tool Means Healthy Data at UVA
• IT News: Purdue Builds New Campus Supercomputer in Less Than a Day
  • Unicon Launches uPortal 3 Services
  • Texas, Arizona and North Dakota Campuses Sign on for Higher One Refund Management Services
  • IBM Expands Team Collaboration, Social Networking Software
  • Update: Windows XP SP3 Available
  • Maple 12 Enhances Math Engine, Builds on Engineering Tools
  • Strangeloop Device Addresses Web App Performance Pains
• Events:Keep up with your peers!
• Online Resources:Today: Best practices in digital authentication
  • CRM Made Easy: A Practical Step-by-Step Approach and What You Need to Know
  • Helpdesk case study: Indiana Business College enables users to help themselves
  • Campus Technology 2008: Master Next Gen Technologies at 15th Annual Conference

Business Intelligence Tool Means Healthy Data at UVA

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.

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Purdue Builds New Campus Supercomputer in Less Than a Day

Staff members at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN had hoped to build the school’s largest campus supercomputer in just a day Monday, May 5. But it didn’t take that long. The team of 200 university employees, who started unpacking equipment boxes at 7 a.m., was done by lunch. According to a campus article, by 1 p.m. 500 of the 812 nodes that make up the high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) from Dell were already running 1,400 research jobs from across campus.

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Unicon Launches uPortal 3 Services

Technology integrator Unicon has announced that it’s now providing commercial support for uPortal 3.0, an open source campus portal solution designed by members of the education community.

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Texas, Arizona and North Dakota Campuses Sign on for Higher One Refund Management Services

Higher One, a financial services company serving higher education, said 15 colleges and universities have signed agreements in the first quarter of 2008 to use its OneDisburse Refund Management system to handle disbursement of refunds to students.

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IBM Expands Team Collaboration, Social Networking Software

IBM has introduced a new tool for migrating content from Microsoft SharePoint and other data repositories into Lotus Quickr. The new Lotus Quickr Content Integrator, which recently began shipping, is designed to bring content from existing repositories into Quickr’s «team places» for collaboration and sharing.

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Update: Windows XP SP3 Available

Users of Windows XP can now gain access to Service Pack 3 through Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center, according to an announcement issued by Microsoft Tuesday. Distribution of the service pack through Automatic Updates will be available «in the next few months,» the announcement added.

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Maple 12 Enhances Math Engine, Builds on Engineering Tools

Math software developer Maplesoft has released Maple 12, a long-anticipated update to the company’s flagship math application for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Solaris. The new version features an enhanced mathematics engine, new tools for engineers, and features that are designed to make the program easier to use in instructional settings.

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Strangeloop Device Addresses Web App Performance Pains

Strangeloop Networks has introduced a product the company is billing as the first appliance designed specifically to accelerate enterprise applications in service-oriented architectures. The new WS1000 Web Services Accelerator is aimed at the growing number of organizations employing Web services to integrate disparate applications and databases, to extend their mainframe applications and to deal with performance challenges associated with dynamic Web apps.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

The Congress on the Future of Content
Washington, DC
May 8-9, 2008

SANS Toronto 2008
Toronto, Canada
May 10-16, 2008

SANS Security West
San Diego, CA
May 11-16, 2008

The Data Warehousing Institute TDWI World Conference-Spring 2008
Chicago, IL
May 11-16, 2008

IMS Global Learning Consortium Learning Impact 2008
and The Summit on Global Learning Industry Challenges
Austin, TX
May 12-15, 2008

SIIA Ed Tech Industry Summit
San Francisco, CA
May 18-20, 2008

Events Calendar

ONLINE RESOURCES

• Today: Best practices in digital authentication
  Sponsored by Aladdin Systems
  Join this live discussion to hear the real-world benefits of digital authentication and get actionable advice for deploying token-based PKI devices on your campus. Our experts will help audience members address their access management challenges during an interactive Q&A session immediately following the live presentation.
• CRM Made Easy: A Practical Step-by-Step Approach and What You Need to Know
  Sponsored by Azorus
  See how your institution can achieve meaningful results instantly by adopting CRM best practices.
• Helpdesk case study: Indiana Business College enables users to help themselves
  Sponsored by Parature
  Discover how Parature’s helpdesk software enabled Indiana Business College to improve service to their users while creating a more efficient system for their support desk.
• Campus Technology 2008: Master Next Gen Technologies at 15th Annual Conference
  Sponsored by Campus Technology
  Explore the technologies you need to survive–and thrive–in a rapidly changing Web 2.0 world at Campus Technology 2008, July 28-31, at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel, in Boston, MA. Campus Technology’s summer conference focuses on the new realm of teaching and learning in a Web 2.0 world. Discover how top institutions are incorporating the latest technologies such as wikis, blogs, social networking, virtual learning, collaboration tools, mashups and more. Learn how to integrate Web 2.0 into IT strategic plans, curricula, and educational programs. Register now!
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