Category Archives: information technology

JISC TechWatch: New report on low carbon computing is published

November 6, 2009 – 2:06 pm

 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/services/…
TechWatch is pleased to announce the publication of its latest report, Low carbon computing: a view to 2050 and beyond. The report looks at short-term technology ‘quick fixes’ based on simple staff actions and/ or low cost investment as well as longer term solutions that either represent a more costly investment, or are based on [...]

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Privacy and Confidentiality: Holding IT Service Providers Accountable

November 4, 2009 – 9:46 am

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This ECAR research bulletin addresses the data privacy issues that must be covered by contractual language when entering into an agreement for externally provided IT services or for external consulting about institutional systems. It covers instances in which external agents have access to data that is considered confidential and/or where data can be linked [...]

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ECAR Publishes 2009 Study of Students and IT

October 26, 2009 – 2:29 pm

nbsp;http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/e…
Since 2004, the annual ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology has sought to shed light on how information technology affects the college experience. We ask students about the technology they own and how they use it in and out of their academic world. We gather information about how skilled students believe they are [...]

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EDUCAUSE Quarterly v32 no3, 2009

October 21, 2009 – 10:18 am

nbsp;http://www.educause.edu/eq
contents include:
Greening Technology in U.K. Higher Education; by Rob Bristow with Mark Samuels
Green Desktop Computing at the University of Oxford; by Howard Noble, Daniel Curtis, and Kang Tang
Powering Down From the Bottom Up: Greener Client Computing; by Tom O’Donnell
Bottom Up and Top Down: Making IT a Key Part of the Campus Sustainability Effort; by Dennis [...]

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Victorian universities combine for cloud play

October 9, 2009 – 12:14 pm

nbsp;http://www.itnews.com.au/News/157672,vic…
Universities pull apart data centres to consolidate at Fujitsu park.
Three Victorian universities plan to disassemble their internal data centres and consolidate their compute power in a new facility in Melbourne’s South East.
Monash University, RMIT (The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) and the University of Melbourne have signed a multi-million dollar deal with Fujitsu for ten [...]

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Impact of the economic recession on university library and IT services

October 6, 2009 – 9:34 am

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The main focus of this research was to assess the impact of the economic downturn on university library and IT services. We conducted 40 interviews with representatives of each of these services in 36 different institutions across the UK.

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SubjectsPlus — New Version

October 6, 2009 – 6:52 am

Hello, all. With all the recent list chatter about LibGuides, I thought I’d mention that there is a new version (0.9) of SubjectsPlus
available:
 http://www.subjectsplus.com/
SubjectsPlus is a free and open source tool to help you manage several interrelated parts of your website, including your subject guides.
Version 0.9 is a significant improvement (hopefully) over version 0.8, with [...]

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Horizon Report: 2009 Australia-New Zealand Edition

September 29, 2009 – 3:32 pm

nbsp;http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2009-Horizon-Repo…
The Horizon Report: 2009 Australia-New Zealand Edition was released today in a symposium held at Griffith University’s Southbank campus in Brisbane. The report is the second in the series to focus on the impact of emerging technologies on postsecondary education in Australia and New Zealand. The Horizon Report series is a product of the New [...]

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Demystifying Cloud Computing for Higher Education

September 23, 2009 – 2:21 pm

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Abstract: This ECAR research bulletin is the first in a series of bulletins devoted to cloud computing in higher education. It summarizes insights and a framework for thinking about cloud computing, and it touches on potential emergent roles for public and private clouds. The findings draw from spring 2009 interviews with industry and university information [...]

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EDUCAUSE Review September-October 2009, v. 44, no. 5

September 11, 2009 – 10:24 am

nbsp;http://www.educause.edu/er
Keeping the Guard Up in a Down Economy:Investing in IT Security in Hard Times; Brian D. Voss and Peter M. Siegel
With difficult economic times causing many in higher education to question investments in information security—at just the time when cyber attacks are increasing in number, scope, and sophistication—institutional leaders need to consider ways to make [...]

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