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Small campus library bolstered by the cloud
Sitting on top of Lookout Mountain, Covenant College sometimes is lost in the clouds. Now, the private Dade County, Ga., school’s Kresge Memorial Library will be in the clouds every…
Apple’s iCloud could help make digital instruction easier
Apple CEO Steve Jobs re-emerged from his latest medical leave June 6 to show off the company’s latest innovations, which include a new cloud-based storage service that could make it…
8 cloud companies to watch in 2011
2010 was a big year for cloud computing and infrastructure, in general, but if there’s one fundamental truth in this market, it’s that it doesn’t sit still for long, reports…
Omeka launches a hosted platform to move museum collections to the cloud
Open-source publishing platform Omeka announces today the launch of a hosted Web service, Omeka.net. While similar in some ways to the content management system provided by WordPress, Omeka is geared…
Brown University expands Google services, could save $1M per year
Reports of Gmail’s demise, it seems, have been greatly exaggerated. After a spring that saw at least three prominent universities move away from Google’s eMail and applications, technology officials at…
Some colleges have second thoughts on Gmail
A small-scale backlash against Google's free eMail service and applications has included at least three prominent universities this year, after many colleges had begun moving to the outsourced Gmail system…
Schools beef up security for web applications
K-12 schools and colleges are adding extra layers of security to web applications that are being used for everything from eMail service to group assignments. The extra security is particularly…
Is Google preparing to challenge iTunes in the cloud?
CNET reports that as the four biggest record companies wait to hear more about a proposed iTunes cloud music service, word comes now that Google has kicked the tires on…
IBM makes cloud computing available to academia
IBM has joined technology leaders Google, Microsoft, and Amazon in providing colleges and universities with free cloud computing aimed at easing campuses’ IT strain and enhancing distance learning.…
Microsoft opens its cloud to researchers
Researchers have until March 15 to submit proposals to the National Science Foundation that would grant access to Microsoft’s massive cloud-computing power for three years.…