White Papers
Security

Key strategies for safeguarding IT resources from interior and exterior threats.

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Green IT Practices for Education

Guidance on how educational institutions can become more efficient, support green initiatives and reduce budget costs.

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Client Virtualization for Education

Improved security and long-term cost savings on hardware and staff are a few of the benefits of virtualizing clients.

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Data Convergence

How educational institutions can best take advantage of Voice over IP, web and video conferencing, and unified communications.

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Data Center Storage in Education

Here’s a primer on how storage technologies help your educational organization streamline its information architecture, prevent data loss and deliver access anytime, anywhere.

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Audio Visual Technology on Campus

Learn how to modernize your college classrooms with the latest AV technologies.

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Unified Communications for Higher Education

Here's a primer on how to use UC solutions to collaborate and fulfill the college’s educational mission.

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Wireless Networking

Helpful information and practical strategies for planning, setting up and running your institution’s wireless network.

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Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations Planning

Keeping your organization operating at its best while preparing for the worst.

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Sustainability Practices for Higher Education

Key strategies to increase efficiencies, reduce consumption, lower costs and go green in the IT department.

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Virtualization and Optimization

These key technology solutions help organizations reduce costs and operate more efficiently.

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Stretch Your IT Dollars

Making smart, efficient changes to IT operations can save money.

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21st Century Campus

Colleges and universities have one overarching goal: to teach students in a way that increases comprehension and retention, resulting in a more effective learning experience. And most are finding that, through technology, they can achieve that goal.

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Email Archiving

From an improved ability to meet compliance and e-discovery requests to better storage management and opportunities for knowledge management, most organizations can benefit from deploying an e-mail archiving solution.

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Mobile Computing Security

Protecting Data on Devices Roaming on the Perimeter.

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Enterprise Content and Document Management in Higher Education

Faced with the need to store ever increasing amounts and types of documents, institutions of higher education are examining means to store not only paper-based documents electronically, but also new media, such as web pages and audio and video clips. This trend, called enterprise content management, includes document management, document imaging, records management, workflow, web content management and collaboration. This white paper highlights the benefits and technologies that make up a comprehensive document and enterprise content management system.

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Getting the Green Light for IT Funding

Traditional return-on-investment metrics are important when CIOs at colleges and universities build their case for projects at budget time, but competitive edge and impact on educational experience are also considerations. This white paper discusses the tangible and intangible benefits of technology, must-have technologies and successful projects.

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Higher Education VPN

Virtual Private Networks allow higher education IT departments to create a private tunnel over the Internet, so remote users can securely connect and transmit data. This white paper focuses on the two dominant VPN technologies, how they work and the factors to consider when deciding which one to select.

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Mass Notification Systems in Higher Education

A mass notification system, which links an institution’s communications and technology infrastructure with a comprehensive emergency response strategy, can save lives. Learn from industry analysts and mass notification system vendors as they discuss how to choose, install and manage a system.

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Supporting Pedagogy in Higher Education

IT plays a major role in bolstering teaching, learning and research at higher education institutions. This white paper explores best practices and strategies from technologists and academics that can help your institution better utilize technology to support pedagogy.

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