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This section includes spec sheets, benchmark reports, and white papers about IBM solutions and technologies.
eSchool News special report on virtualization
Technology is enabling new approaches to teaching and learning, but its associated costs in administration, upgrades, updates and general upkeep can thwart these efforts. Virtualization can help reduce these costs by enabling school districts to centralize the management of their computing devices and applications.
Education resources
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This report will be a deliverable featured on the upcoming Cognos Economic Stimulus webinar and the upcoming Cognos Virtual Event. | 30 Mar 2009 |
Compliance with No Child Left Behind reporting requirements has challenged each state department of education to become a hub for data collection and reporting. To address the challenge, IBM has created the Open Education Integration and Reporting Framework (OPEN-ED). Read about our clients who are now using the framework. | 24 Mar 2009 |
This paper, a report on a summit on enterprise risk management (ERM) held by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and the National Association of College and University Business Officers, summarizes a proposed ERM model and its components, and provides educators with an agenda for action. | 09 Jul 2008 |
This paper focuses on the Internal Connections funding category of the E–rate program and will help school district leaders understand the impact of recent program rule changes. It provides proven strategies to help districts implement a future–ready infrastructure to support a broad educational technology vision. | 02 Jul 2008 |
Technology is enabling new approaches to teaching and learning, but its associated costs in administration, upgrades, updates and general upkeep can thwart these efforts. Virtualization can help reduce these costs by enabling school districts to centralize the management of their computing devices and applications. | 24 Apr 2008 |
The message is clear: Energy costs are rising, supply is limited, the data center infrastructure is being taxed, and its ability to meet business demands is at stake. CIOs who want to solve these problems will need to focus on data center innovation. | 18 Mar 2008 |
Can the CIO profession evolve rapidly enough to match the pace of global competition and technological change? In 2006, CIOs felt that senior management did not appreciate the contribution that CIOs could make to the business. This year’s 2007 CIO Leadership Survey finds a different environment for most CIOs. | 13 Dec 2007 |
While the concept is relatively new to education, we believe virtualization can have a large impact on education technology. This paper defines virtualization and the benefits it brings in the context of education. This paper also presents some real-world examples of virtualization in action on campus. | 12 Dec 2007 |
Take a video tour of the IBM Institute for Electronic Government, a world-class briefing center, and it houses cutting-edge demonstrations in real-world settings... an airport... a family's living room... or an elementary classroom. Explore what's possible for your K-12 school district, college or university. | 01 Nov 2007 |
With IBM Virtualization solutions, schools can provide students and other users with a single-point of access to applications, information, people and processes from almost any device with an Internet connection. Read this overview to learn how virtualization can reduce costs while maintaining full management control. | 10 Aug 2007 |
If your organization is struggling with increasing IT complexity, costs and service concerns, and with accommodating an increasingly mobile workforce, server-based computing (SBC) may help. | 07 Jun 2007 |
In this issue, read how the rewards of a laptop being available to each student at every “teachable moment” were too great for the Whitfield School’s director of technology to accept cost as a barrier. The goal inspired him to devise an innovative solution, and now Whitfield students are brainstorming without boundaries. | 26 Apr 2007 |
The IBM Matching Grants Program has again expanded the offerings available to colleges and universities in the United States. Eligible institutions can use their 2007 credits to purchase a complete range of consulting services, in addition to technology solutions and individual hardware or software products. | 02 Feb 2007 |
Do you have the right systems in place to offer new, innovative solutions—or enhance existing programs—for your institution? This comprehensive brochure provides an overview of IBM technology and services that can help you build an integrated, secure, reliable infrastructure for education. | 09 Jan 2007 |
Innovation often arises in the gap between an institution's strategic goals and its current level of performance. Read about schools and colleges that have bridged the gap, and inso doing have changed their own futures. And perhaps the future of education. | 08 Jan 2007 |
In this issue, read about organizations that are boldly pursuing visionary ideas, partnering with others to look beyond what is possible and do what is necessary. We focus on companies and institutions that are reaching out to others who share their vision and accomplishing what they could not do alone. | 27 Oct 2006 |
The literature and resources you'll find here will help you learn more about open technology - what it's enabling, why it's important, and how you or your organization can take advantage of its many benefits. | 26 Oct 2006 |
Individual preferences and abilities are the focus of the IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center. At IBM, accessibility means more than just removing barriers to online information and services. It means enabling human capabilities through innovation so that people of any age or ability can maximize their potential. | 16 Oct 2006 |
Open technologies make education the satisfying experience it can be for all of us. They eliminate the limitations of incompatible systems, siloed record keeping and proprietary content. And they show us how, when everything works together, innovation and success can happen. | 16 Oct 2006 |
IBM believes industry growth and service delivery in education will improve dramatically with the widespread adoption of open technologies — open standards, open source software and open hardware. | 06 Oct 2006 |
IBM Open Education Service: Collaborative Learning Edition is a hosted open-source application that enables instructors to collaboratively create online course Web sites offering reference materials, curricula, syllabi and more, based on the Sakai Collaborative Learning Environment from IBM Business Partner rSmart. | 05 Oct 2006 |
Higher education institutions must be able to execute with speed and agility to sustain leadership in 2012. What do colleges and universities need to do to remain relevant and compete effectively? How should they organize themselves and begin preparing now? Learn about the challenges and changes ahead. | 02 Oct 2006 |
St. John's University considers the safety and well-being of its 19,000-plus students to be of paramount importance. When the university's surveillance systems began to wear out, the university saw an opportunity to leverage new technologies that could help lower costs while improving campus security. | 07 Aug 2006 |
This document describes how to use Eclipse to deploy Sakai 2.1.2 on an IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WASCE)server. | 07 Jul 2006 |
IBM is committed to supporting open technologies by contributing source code, open standards specifications and intellectual property. | 25 May 2006 |
Use of open technologies is becoming more prevalent in K–12 schools and higher education institutions, but its terminology can be confusing. | 14 May 2006 |
In this issue of Inspired, you'll read about how open technologies have opened up learning at Marist College... how children around the world see IBM innovation... how an IBM supercomputer is looking back to the Big Bang. Learn how IBM and its Business Partners are changing the world every day. | 01 May 2006 |
The Syracuse City School District, New York's fifth largest, needed to meet the standards set by the No Child Left Behind legislation as fiscal resources were becoming ever more difficult to secure. Don Spaulding, Director of Information Services & Technology, felt only IBM could help Syracuse realize its vision. | 23 Jan 2006 |
In this white paper, authors Eliot Levinson and Kirsten Schroeder discuss IBM's advocacy of an open approach to technology development — and how this movement will transform technology delivery in K–12 education and free resources and funds so schools can target applications and services to support educational achievement. | 22 Dec 2005 |
Another inflection point has been reached in the evolution of student systems. A combination of factors, such as open standards, open–source application software and extended services powered by Internet technologies, is shaping the next generation of application systems. | 08 Dec 2005 |
The past decade has seen the emergence of new Internet technologies as well as strategic investments in ERP systems to achieve better data and process integration. But open source application software is now emerging to challenge current strategies. Campus decisionmakers need to pause and ask, "What lies ahead?" | 14 Nov 2005 |
This paper is designed to provide institutional decision makers with a non-technical introduction to the concepts and technology of service-oriented architectures and the important role that SOA will play in providing colleges and universities with the agility and flexibility they are seeking. | 27 Jun 2005 |
IBM Global Financing's Low Rate Financing has set the standard in the corporate world, with flexible plans and attractive rates on a wide range of products and services. Now there are even lower rates for tax–exempt clients on full–payout (FPO) leases with terms of 24 to 60 months. | 04 Sep 2003 |
In this, the second issue of INSPIRED, you'll read more about the inventiveness of IBM clients the world over: How Dubai Men's College has established a "learn anywhere, anytime" environment. What FBD–Bildungspark GmbH is doing to reach more students. How the people that changed educational TV are managing change. And more. | 08 Jul 2002 |
For many institutions, "business resilience" means avoiding or recovering from harm. But others have realized it's also about exploiting opportunities. Beyond maintaining continuous operations, a sound business resilience strategy can provide security–enhanced, centralized and collaborative access to critical information. | 13 Jun 2002 |
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