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Fargo District Deploys Computer Management and Monitoring Technologies

8/12/2008

Fargo Public School District will be implementing NetSupport School (NSS), a classroom management program that allows the teacher or media instructor to control website access and record computer activities. The district has 14 public elementary schools, three middle schools, and two high schools, as well as an alternative high school. Enrollment is around 11,000, and district employs about 1,000 people. Read More

Microsoft, BearingPoint Team Up To Provide Risk-Based Compliance Solution

8/12/2008

Microsoft has teamed up with BearingPoint to create the BearingPoint Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (EGRC) solution. The platform is built on Microsoft technology and capitalizes on the companies' long-standing relationship. Read More

Bradford Credits Channel Program for Record Gains

8/11/2008

Network access control (NAC) provider Bradford Networks announced that sales growth for fiscal 2008 grew more than 80 percent over the same period a year ago. Read More

Small California District Installs Cisco Communications Platform

8/11/2008

St. Helena Unified School District (SHUSD), located in Northern California, has finished installing a Cisco IP-based unified communications solution that provides voice, video, mobility and presence services to 1,500 K-12 students, their families, and 250 district employees. The district worked with Stamford, CT-based MTM Technologies on the installation, which replaced a seven-year-old PBX that was frequently unreliable. The project took three months to complete. Read More

VMware Announces Advanced Certifications, Online Flexibility

8/11/2008

VMware has announced new education services and certification programs designed for IT professionals implementing the company's virtualization technologies. The new programs are designed for systems administrators, design architects, and managers, among others, and include the VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX), Live Online, and Flex Online courses. Read More

BearingPoint Helps Hobart and William Smith Colleges Wrap First Phase of PeopleSoft CRM Implementation

8/7/2008

Consulting firm BearingPoint said it has completed the first phase of an implementation of the Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM for Higher Education for the Admissions Office at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. Read More

Roanoke College Personalizes Constituent Communication with Talisma CRM

8/6/2008

Roanoke College has selected Talisma's Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) solution to personalize constituent communications in an effort to increase enrollment and forge stronger relations with current students. Read More

Utah Signs On for Technology-Based K-5 Reading Programs

8/5/2008

The Utah State Board of Education has signed a five-year contract with Scientific Learning to deploy that company's Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant lines of technology-assisted reading programs. Read More

Universities in Indiana, North Dakota, New York Deploy Oracle Software

8/4/2008

Four institutions of higher education--Anderson University, the North Dakota University System, Indiana University, and City University of New York--have gone public with their deployments of software from Oracle. They're among 13 colleges and universities that have recently implemented or selected applications from the vendor. Read More

3PAR Releases Virtual Desktop Solution for VMware VDI

8/1/2008

3PAR has announced a new virtual desktop provisioning and management solution for VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Read More