Oracle moves its business software into the cloud
Business software maker Oracle is finally adapting to a shift in computing that is threatening to turn the company into a relic.
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Cloud-based LMS challenges Blackboard to major security review
A relatively new kid on the learning management system block has jabbed Blackboard Inc. in the chest for three months, daring the commercial LMS behemoth to conduct a…
New Internet2 partnerships bolster campus research efforts
Sixteen partnerships among universities and technology companies will deliver discounted cloud services to those participating campuses who are members of Internet2, a high-powered, research-intensive network consortium.
Google Drive to offer free storage in the cloud
Google soon is expected to launch a major new consumer service offering cloud-based storage for photos and other online content, the BBC reports.
Microsoft wins its biggest cloud computing client
Microsoft announced its biggest-ever customer for cloud computing - software that it hosts on behalf of clients and delivers over the Internet - after winning a contract to…
Viewpoint: Colleges shouldn’t fear the cloud
The irony about cloud computing in higher education is that most schools have used the technology to some extent but might not even realize it.
Study: Cloud to replace personal computers by 2014
Cloud computing evangelists have been pronouncing the death of the PC for years; now Gartner, the world’s leading IT research firm, has weighed in on the issue with…
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…
Using the cloud to deliver reliable IT services
With a host of new technologies, thousands of lectures and lessons uploaded to iTunes University, and a newly refurbished library that caters to the needs of today’s college…
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…