September/October 2011
Features
Cover Story »
Colleges bolster network bandwidth, invest in video conferencing equipment and increase their online course offerings to meet the growing demand for distance learning.
As malware grows in volume and sophistication, colleges and universities add new layers to their security defenses.
Colleges find that new app-centric functions in load balancers enhance security and ease management.
Each institution takes a slightly different route to implementing virtual desktops, but most reap the same cost-cutting and efficiency rewards in the journey.
Higher education institutions are leaders on cloud adoption.
Departments
Product Review:
Orchestrating Endpoint Security
McAfee's Total Protection suite delivers affordable multiplatform support.
Product Review:
ViewSonic Lights It Up
This short-throw projector is a handy tool for just about any type of presentation situation.
Case Study:
Asset Management Advantage
Self-service portals and outsourced imaging services streamline IT asset acquisition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Tech Trends:
Tiers of Joy
Automated storage tiering delights IT managers because it lets them do more with less.
I.T. Practice & Pedagogy:
Virtual Learning Comes Alive
East Carolina University leverages Second Life for virtual world simulations to improve distance and on-campus learning.
Best Practices:
Unleash the Cloud
Follow these five best practices to deliver cloud applications that ensure security and privacy.
Best Practices:
Power Management Made Easy
Green computing can be a maze of complex options, but the University of Maine at Farmington found that simply managing clients well works best.
Opinion
Contributor Column:
Protecting Research Data
IT departments need to educate university research groups on the importance of enhanced security.
