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Collaboration and Education Expand SAP Business Process Expert Community

5/22/2008

SAP announced new incentives for their Business Process Expert community at SAPPHIRE 2008 in Berlin, Germany. Read More

Randolph College Virtualizes on SAN

5/22/2008

Randolph College, formerly Randolph-Macon Women's College, has upgraded its storage to an IP-based storage area network (SAN) from StoneFly. The Lynchburg, VA-based school implemented the StoneFly Hybrid Storage Concentrator (HSC), an iSCSI SAN with 8 TB of capacity, after evaluating solutions from several vendors. Read More

Xirrus Rolls Out WiFi for 1:1 Program at Pueblo SD

5/22/2008

Pueblo School District No. 70 in Colorado has deployed a WiFi network across three of its schools to support the district's 1:1 computing initiative and to support various mobile devices used in the district. The deployment was handled by WiFi developer Xirrus. Read More

Citrix Debuts New Desktop Appliance Partner Program

5/21/2008

At the Citrix Synergy event in Houston, the company announced a new Desktop Appliance Partner Program. Appliances and thin clients are important elements in the emerging value chain for hosted desktop virtualization solutions both in terms of end user expectations for performance and ease of installation. Read More

Unified Communications System in Tulsa Powers Virtual Classroom

5/21/2008

Tulsa Technology Center, a school district with four campuses that offers career and technology education classes in Oklahoma, will be deploying a Nortel and Microsoft unified communications platform. The district will be using Xeta Technologies, a national provider of converged voice and data communications solutions. The platform is expected to enhance student-teacher communication while reducing school expenses. Read More

VMware Enhances Thin Client Partnerships

5/21/2008

Stealing some thunder from Citrix's recent XenDesktop unveiling, VMware has made several announcements aimed at strengthening partnerships with thin client suppliers. Read More

Xceedium Looks To Expand Market Presence with New Partner Program

5/21/2008

Security and compliance solution provider Xceedium, announced Tuesday the launch of a new partner program, dubbed the "Xceedium Xcelerate Partner Program." Giving partners access to a range of resources, the company is looking to the new program to expand its presence in the marketplace. Read More

Security Market: K-12 Schools Rate Themselves 'Vulnerable'

5/21/2008

A large percentage of schools consider themselves open for physical and data breaches. In a new study conducted by Quality Education Data and released this week by CDW Government (CDW-G), 39 percent of K-12 IT and security personnel rate their institutions as only "moderately safe" to "very vulnerable." Read More

Agilix Uses New Partner Program To Sell Distributed Online Learning

5/20/2008

Course delivery and distributed learning solutions company Agilix Labs recently announced the launch of its worldwide partner program. The company will use the program to sell their GoCourse Learning System through Microsoft value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators (SIs) serving the education and training markets. Read More

Citrix Takes On VMware with XenDesktop

5/20/2008

With a tiered pricing structure designed to undercut VMware's offerings, Citrix has announced the availability of XenDesktop, its much anticipated and discussed product offering in the increasingly important desktop virtualization arena. At the company's Synergy event in Houston, it also took the wraps off of some important product portfolio details. Read More