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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

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

FPL Services Ramps Up Energy Efficiency for Lee County Schools

10/7/2008

The School District of Lee County in Florida is expanding an energy conservation program it launched in 2006. The district has contracted with FPL Services to implement the second phase of the program, in which 25 new schools will be overhauled to reduce energy and water consumption. Read More

SciQuest Helps Organizations 'Green' Their Procurement Processes

10/3/2008

In a recent announcement, SciQuest said it has been consulting with customers of its procurement automation and supplier enablement solutions on ways they can utilize electronic procurement practices to achieve overall sustainability goals. Read More

Honeywell Inks 30-Year, $140 Million Deal with Alberta Schools

9/25/2008

Honeywell has announced a 30-year contract with the province of Alberta, Canada, worth $140 million. Under the agreement, the company will provide total Asset Management for 18 new K-9 schools, including performance monitoring and maintenance for the buildings until 2040. Read More

VMware Launches vClient, Aims To Create Desktops That Follow Users Anywhere

9/22/2008

In an announcement at VMworld last week, VMware unveiled plans to deliver a portfolio of solutions intended to turn virtualized desktops into "universal clients." The initiative, dubbed vClient, begins with a series of products called VMware View. Read More

Microsoft and Novell Roll Out Virtualized Linux Solution

9/17/2008

Microsoft and Novell, as part of their general interoperability partnership, have verified running Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server as a guest operating system on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. The companies announced yesterday that their channel partners will support the combined technologies. Read More

Red Hat Makes Strategic Virtualization Buy

9/8/2008

Open source server distributor Red Hat Inc., which is carving out a virtualization path unique in the industry, added another arrow to its quiver Thursday with the acquisition of Qumranet Inc. Read More

Texas District Virtualizes Servers on VMware, Dell

8/26/2008

Tyler Independent School District in Texas said it has recently moved its servers to a virtualized infrastructure, consolidating 114 older servers onto seven new ones. The district is running VMware ESX Server software on Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers. Read More

Is Green the New Gold for Education Marketers?

8/19/2008

Manufacturers are clearly keen to promote green. But green just isn't a purchasing priority for customers in the private sector yet. While sentiment seems to favor environmentally friendly technologies, the case has not yet been made--despite all the recent hype--to the point where large numbers of business customers are shelling out hard cash just to reduce their carbon footprints. But is the education marketplace different? Some recent indicators suggest that the sales opportunities are there for smart education marketers. Read More