News

Sun To Cut More Than 15 Percent of Global Workforce

11/17/2008

Sun Microsystems, a leader in Java and open source technologies, put market "speculation to rest" Friday. CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced that the company is realigning itself to "adapt to the new economic reality." Read More

Cisco Creates Global Resale Agent Program

11/12/2008

Cisco has recently announced a new channel program intended to help foster global partner collaboration in order to serve multinational customers. Read More

Oregon School Districts Move to EMC for Remote Data Backup

11/11/2008

Clackamas Education Service District (ESD), a state-funded agency providing centralized educational programs and services, has introduced remote data backup services from EMC to 10 school districts in Clackamas County, OR. Read More

Blackboard Managed Hosting Rolls Out Virtual Operating Environment

11/11/2008

Blackboard is implementing Scalent Systems' Virtual Operating Environment for its Blackboard Managed Hosting service. Built on technologies from Scalent, Red Hat, NetApp, and Dell, the revamped environment is designed to provide greater flexibility for data center management and improved security and recovery capabilities. Read More

Jenks District Adopts Mizuni Data Systems

11/10/2008

Jenks Public Schools in Oklahoma is implementing a Web-based data gathering system throughout the district to help with reporting on student performance on state tests, as well as district pre- and post-tests. The system will be used to help monitor student performance and report the information to teacher to help them focus on students' weak spots. Read More

Spectrum K12 Becomes Oracle ISV

11/5/2008

Spectrum K12 School Solutions, a provider of student achievement management software, has recently become an Oracle Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partner. Read More

Punahou School in Hawaii Turns to Virtualization for Data Center Energy Reduction

11/3/2008

Punahou School, a private K-12 school in Hawaii, is launching a new effort to reduce its overall campus energy consumption by half within the next eight years. As part of the effort, the school is partnering with IBM to overhaul its data center with new servers and virtualization software from VMware. Read More

Texas District Rolls Out Digital Video to 68 Schools

10/31/2008

Garland Independent School District in Texas has awarded a three-year digital video contract to Safari Montage. Under the agreement, the company will outfit Garland's 68 school sites with a full suite of Safari Montage products. Read More

HowTec Uses ioimage Video Appliances for Mobile Surveillance Solution

10/31/2008

Systems integrator HowTec Video Security Systems recently deployed ioimage's video analytics platform and video appliances as part of an overall Mobile Surveillance solution, designed to monitor and protect a new $104.5 million construction site for Poway Unified School District in Southern California. Read More

Aruba Launches Collaborative Program for Partners

10/29/2008

Aruba Networks has launched Aruba Labs, a new three-pronged research program designed in part to provide development partners with resources for researching and prototyping WiFi applications. Read More