EDTECH: Focus On Higher Education

The cover story of the May/June 2008 issue of EdTech magazine focuses on Sinclair Community College’s successful network upgrade that unified its wired and wireless networks and boosted its overall security. Other articles discuss the benefits of moving to a storage area network (SAN), the deployment of the world’s largest 802.11n wireless network and CIO responses to the question of what makes a great CIO. Also included are two Tech Trend articles on how help-desk metrics and municipal area networks (MANs). This issue also covers stories on how to manage video over IP, network virtualization and safely tweaking Windows Vista.

Contributors

Management Enlightens Technology

Be Up Front

Making the case for IT value shouldn’t be a last-minute thing.

Order From Chaos

A university IT project-management office can make managing more predictable.

Artful Adobe

University design classes focus more on nonprogramming fields.

Metrics Aren�t All Numbers

They’re the information that can help IT perform better.

Big Band(width) and the Expanding University

MANs bring multiple campuses and local communities together for economic opportunities.

Wireless Tunnel to Security

Sinclair Community College unifies wired and wireless networks and improves security.

SAN Sense

By moving to a SAN, this University of Florida IT department gained flexibility and uptime.

Completely Unplugged

The University of Minnesota is set to deploy the world’s largest 802.11n wireless network.

Are You Good or Great?

Are you a good chief information officer or a great chief information officer? Every CIO tries to find ways to leverage available resources and opportunities to help the parent institution achieve greater levels of accomplishment, success and excellence. So what’s the difference between a good CIO and a great CIO? The answer may lie in the responses that some experienced managers give to the following questions.

Taming IP Video

Understanding how to implement bandwidth-chewing video over an IP network can help domesticate a potential network hog into a well-mannered ally.

Trading Up

Lafayette College turns in its old network for a scratch-built, multifunctional model.

Add This to Your �Don�t Do� List

Patch Management Automation

Experts share their insights on how to keep your systems safe.

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