Technology articles, news, and insights from the pages of University Business magazine

Infrastructure

Universities' Best Practices for Preparing Engineering and Architecture Students
U.S. government and business leaders-from the National Academy of Sciences to the National Association of Manufacturers-have been sounding the alarm for greater innovation, as well as the education of the next generation of professionals who will help ensure the nation's prosperity, security and competitiveness.
Preparing the next generation of architects and engineers

Your University's Data Theft Hot Spots Revealed
Too often, leaders at higher education institutions think of data security as strictly an IT department concern. Secure networks are vital but the truth is that the loss, theft, or misuse of sensitive personal information (SPI) can happen anywhere on campus.
7 primary data theft hot spots and what higher ed leaders can do

10 Questions and Answers About the Cloud
Cloud Computing is the closest we've come yet to what futurists promised the Internet could be. If you use Google Apps, YouTube, Amazon, Salesforce, Flickr, Facebook, Bittorrent, Skype, or any of a myriad of applications that let you access and share information quickly and connect with other people, you've already been in the cloud.
Get up to speed on cloud computing

Virtualization of Data Centers

Cloud Computing's Top Issues for Higher Education
While today's "cloud powered" higher education institutions can gain significant flexibility and agility, the corresponding migration of their sensitive data into remote, worldwide data centers–the cloud itself–introduce profound legal, compliance, and political issues.

Server virtualization
Everyone is touting server virtualization as the greatest thing since sliced bread. When it comes to servers, you CAN have too much of a good thing. Is it a worthwhile technology, or just the latest trend?
5 Reasons to Switch to Virtual Servers

Open Education: A New Paradigm
Between 2010 and 2025, nearly 80 million "baby boomers" will leave the workforce, just as they entered it between 1960 and 1980. When this exodus occurs, only 20 percent of workers remaining will possess the skills required for most of the jobs being created today.
Take the necessary commitment steps

Storage & Proliferation

Campuses deploy network access control to protect users and the network
Unlike corporations, Higher Education institutions face unique challenges with IT security. As students arrive each semester with their own computers, many times their security devices are off, their anti-virus software is gone or simply outdated, and odd configurations abound.
3 approaches to NAC

When Natural or Man-Made Disasters Strike
Though all kinds of businesses and organizations will have many emergency needs in common, there are some needs that only come up in higher education. Technology leaders are working closely with their staffs to develop plans, and then run them through worst-case scenarios.
Business continuity plans after disaster strikes

How to Manage the Data Crunch
The justification behind the uses of servers on college and university campuses is as simple as "more is never enough." Schools are relying on their servers to do more than in the past, especially in the area of storage, which they look to as a path to the paperless office they've been promised for more then a decade by the apostles of high technology.
Solutions to server and storage needs