630 servers, one machine: Cloud computing on a mainframe
An upstate New York college sees great economic advantage by running cloud computing on a mainframe. On one mainframe, Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., runs 630 virtual servers. Some of them are...
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Cloud Computing: The Economic Imperative
What is cloud computing? There is an amusing video on YouTube.com that tries to answer that very question. The video’s author, an employee of a cloud-computing company called Joyent Inc., asked that...
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Low-cost presentations powered by the cloud
College professors and students now can give presentations using the power of cloud computing, while possibly saving thousands of dollars compared to other online presentation services. Slidelive is a...
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‘Storm computing’ gathers just beyond the cloud
Renowned futurist George Gilder first discussed cloud computing with colleagues nearly 20 years ago. Now, Gilder is looking beyond the cloud and predicting a new kind of network that could boost...
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Cloud computing envelops EDUCAUSE talk
The 2009 EDUCAUSE higher-education technology conference in Denver Nov. 3-6 saw campus IT administrators present ways to preserve technology budgets during an economic downturn that has devastated...
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Microsoft calls for cloud-computing regulations
One-third of Americans surveyed say they store their photos on remote servers. A Microsoft official argued Jan. 20 that the U.S. Congress should create rules and regulations for cloud computing, a...
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Viewpoint: The future of education lies in the cloud
Cloud computing offers game-changing options for education. Calls to improve K-12 education are routine. Business leaders, educators, and other stakeholders demand that our children acquire the...
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Schools beef up security for web applications
Schools and colleges are using web apps for more than just eMail. K-12 schools and colleges are adding extra layers of security to web applications that are being used for everything from eMail...
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Six technologies soon to affect education
Several important technologies are becoming more relevant to K-12 education. Cloud computing and collaborative learning environments are set to take hold in K-12 schools in the very near future, with...
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Kentucky offers cloud-based software to 700,000 school users
The deployment is not only one of the largest in the world, but also one of the fastest, Microsoft says. In what state officials are calling one of the largest and fastest-ever deployments of cloud...
View ArticleSubscription-based cloud helps Pike County extend computers to more students
Through a subscription-based cloud-computing model, Kentucky’s Pike County Schools brought its student-to-computer ratio down to 2 to 1 without spending millions of dollars. “We were running into a...
View Article630 servers, one machine: Cloud computing on a mainframe
An upstate New York college sees great economic advantage by running cloud computing on a mainframe. On one mainframe, Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., runs 630 virtual servers. Some of them are...
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