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Getting back up after a disaster
Lessons have been learnt after the Queensland floods with IT managers looking at cloud computing and shared storage. Beverley Head…
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IT chiefs tighten belts
Campuses are adapting to the lean times by networking and even sharing resources with nearby institutions. Large organisations across Australia…
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Putting on your best social face
Facebook will break the one billion-user barrier sometime in 2012. It already has more than 800 million people signed up…
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Collaborate, then celebrate
The Computer Society will oversee funding to help companies push ahead with research and development. By Beverley Head. The Australian…
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Death of distance
Long term reforms need to be less about introducing gadgets and gizmos to engage students, and more about a wholesale…
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Policy settings imperative for security in BYO environment
Universities should in theory be in the box seat in terms of the move toward BYO devices and desktop virtualisation…
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Education bodies back eLearning project
Innovation fund set up to help develop prototypes for open source learning system. By Beverley Head. A $200,000 eLearning Innovation…
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Shock of the new: power bills to force an IT rethink
If electricity prices surge post-carbon tax, universities could face huge extra cost burdens because computing is a prime suspect when…
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Nervous Europe halts mobile phone use in classrooms
Could overseas health concerns about mobile phones affect their use as a learning device here? The debate over the mobile…
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IPad program increases textbook use
University of Adelaide science needed a device for seamless access and the exchange of information so students could learn to…
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Graduate computing skills lag behind business needs
Universities are teaching methodologies five to ten years old, Beverley Head finds University computing schools aren’t turning out IT graduates…
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In the Moodle: two more unis make switch
Open source software has proved particularly popular among universities, as it is generally cheaper to buy and operate than proprietary…
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Researchers prefer high performance computer clusters
The demand for supercomputing power within universities keeps growing writes Beverley Head Commodity graphics processor chips used in games machines…
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Blue Gene power could soon be run of the mill
Keeping modern data centres powered and cooled is not a trivial exercise writes Beverley Head The IBM Blue Gene supercomputer…
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Virtual doctors to meet industry in cyberspace
Like the ATN’s e-Grad school, an e-mathematics doctoral training centre will exist as a virtual community The Australian Technology Network…
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AARNet’s tera plans
Universities and research organisations could enjoy network speeds thousands of times as fast as the NBN, writes Beverley Head. Australia’s…
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Learning management: the revolt of the end-user
Universities must decide whether to open up their learning management systems Deakin University is migrating its learning management system from…
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Business intelligence systems help id potential drop outs
Data triggers feed into an automated wellness system to spot students at risk The University of New England is a…
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The next chapter
It’s long been mooted that the growth of e-books would sound the death knell of the traditional library as a…
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Sharing & learning
The publication of data sets could swiftly become as important as publishing papers, thanks to a national initiative aimed at…
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Join the federation
From July, Australia’s universities will be looking for a supplier for the Australian Access Federation service which will promote researcher…
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IT’s dreadful environmental toll
When the Australian Computer Society commissioned a survey of the carbon footprint of Australia’s IT users it found that about…
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Mining rich lodes
Making sense of data can be a survival skill. University administrators have to make accurate budget and planning decisions; they…
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Spending to save
A new report gives a damning analysis of IT spending in universities, but the sector says it is spending up…
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Reviewing IT in higher education
The higher education review has been told of a massive gap between supply and demand for ICT graduates, says Beverley…
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