‘Community source’ project helps colleges tackle enterprise systems
Large, commercial enterprise systems that handle functions such as campus finances and human resources are notorious for being costly, inflexible, and often hard to manage.
The cost of technology downtime in the classroom is more than you think
Talk of the weather, for many in higher education, is the clearest sign that time and money are being wasted while faculty members and students wait for IT…
College campuses face digital signage’s hidden costs
The cost of content for digital signage has been known to elicit a generous helping of expletives from campus technologists who, before making their signage purchases, didn’t peek…
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…
‘Green’ AV systems a key area of focus at InfoComm
From lampless projectors, to control systems that automatically turn off electronic devices when they aren’t in use, to “network monitors” that bring the concept of network computing back…
IT outsourcing: When it makes sense … and when it doesn’t
Cloud computing, Software as a Service (SaaS), and “managed” or “hosted” services: These are terms that today’s campus IT chiefs surely are familiar with. But do these ed-tech…
New technologies help make IP telephony easier, cheaper, more secure
As more schools and colleges look to rout their phone calls and other communications over their IP network, a number of products and services are emerging that aim…
Universities find the virtualization sweet spot
There hasn’t been much opposition to ridding college campuses of clunky, energy-guzzling server racks, campus technology chiefs say, although creating virtual servers could result in an unwieldy mess…
Colleges turn to unified communications to save costs, boost productivity
