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More VMware Buzz on B-hive Acquisition Announcement

5/30/2008

When you have most of the marbles, it never hurts to have a few more. For industry leader VMware, the challenge is well defined: Stay ahead of the pack by maintaining market share; keep building the value-added areas of virtualization where high growth is most likely to take place; fill gaps in the existing portfolio; and move toward the company's vision of automated virtual data centers. Read More

Rice University Purchases SciQuest eProcurement Service

5/30/2008

Houston-based Rice University has selected SciQuest's electronic procurement service to support its online purchasing program. The technology automates purchases made by all users across a university and addresses the unique needs of researchers who often make individual purchases of complex materials. SciQuest also provides a dedicated marketplace of scientific suppliers. Read More

Stanford University Hires SafirRosetti for Security Consulting

5/30/2008

Stanford University has awarded SafirRosetti's Technology Design Consulting Practice a competitively bid contract to provide security master planning and design and construction administration services as the university implements a new campus-wide security program. Read More

CADsoft Becomes Academic Reseller For Autodesk, Expands Presence In Southwest

5/29/2008

CADsoft Consulting announced last week that it has become authorized to sell and deliver Autodesk Academic solutions to K-12 and higher education institutions in three states: Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. Read More

Computing Execs Form PAC To Fight Calif. IT Services Tax Proposal

5/29/2008

With California facing a $16 billion budget deficit, representatives are looking for new ways to make up for the shortfall. According to Oli Thordarson, CEO of Irvine, CA-based managed service provider Alvaka Networks, one idea that some legislators keep turning to is a possible state tax on IT services as well as software downloads--and that's why he's decided to chair a new political action committee (PAC) designed to fight such proposals. Read More

GroundWork Signs Universities for Open Source Monitoring

5/29/2008

With open source a large and growing facet of IT in higher education, a number of universities are signing on for third-party support services aimed at implementing, maintaining, managing, and monitoring OSS deployments. Read More

Northern CA District To Upgrade Student Data Management

5/29/2008

Santa Cruz City Schools in Northern California is replacing its student information system (SIS) with Infinite Campus in a deployment that's expected to be completed in early 2009. Read More

Windows 7 Demo Focuses on Touch Interface

5/29/2008

A touch user interface turned out to be the big surprise in Windows 7, the latest operating system being developed by Microsoft. The OS is expected to appear in either late 2009 or early 2010, but it was demonstrated last night at "D6: All Things Digital," a Wall Street Journal-sponsored event being held this week in Carlsbad, Calif. The demo was part of stage appearance by Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer. Read More

Kaspersky Lab Selected As CDW Sapphire Partner, Offers Cutting-Edge Technology

5/28/2008

Internet threat management solutions provider Kaspersky Lab has announced it's been selected by CDW for its Sapphire Partner Program. The program was designed by CDW to provide customers greater access to emerging trends in the IT marketplace. Read More

Blackboard Defends Patent, Files More Claims

5/28/2008

Blackboard this week defended its e-learning patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The USPTO in March rejected all of the claims in Blackboard's patent following a reexamination prompted by requests from open source advocate the Software Freedom Law Center and commercial rival Desire2Learn. But the patent rejection was not final, allowing Blackboard a window of time to respond to the decision. Read More