Stories about: Educause

Momentum continues to build for rapid deployment of DNS encryption mechanisms.

Neither information technology nor security managers fire people in most organizations. That plain reality seems to escape some in the industry, where offended security administrators declare that disabling the anti-virus program is grounds for demotion or an IT manager finding unlicensed media makes arrangements for someone to make the cardboard box commute.

A coalition of technology vendors, consumer groups and think tanks has launched a campaign to persuade the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to approve wireless devices that would operate in unused television spectrum.

A new EDUCAUSE survey of US college and university CIOs finds that administrative and ERP systems, infrastructure and security are the leading strategic concerns for 2007.

In a deal worked out with higher education groups, electronic courseware vendor Blackboard Thursday promised not to enforce its controversial patents against open source and homegrown software systems.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network Manager/Security Architect Jeff Schiller is leaning back in a plum-colored recliner in his office, but he isn't relaxing. The victim of a back problem that has forced him to forgo a more traditional office chair for now, the 25-year MIT network veteran has more than enough to do, with the school forging ahead with several major network projects, including a massive VOIP rollout and its foray as a regional fibre-optic network operator. Schiller covered the gamut in a recent interview with Bob Brown.

A firestorm of controversy is spreading in the education community over attempts by key software vendor Blackboard to enforce its patent claims.

A team of IT staffers at the University of Indianapolis last week showed off a bundle of open-source tools and scripts it uses to trap and isolate PCs infected by viruses or spyware.

A multifaceted, federally funded initiative aimed at developing and deploying open-source, open-standards middleware and services so that scientists can share data and collaborate on research has released the fifth version of its software, as the effort spreads into corporate use and beyond U.S. borders.

STEPPIN'OUT Q: I am looking to re-enter IT at a director level. I have 10 years' experience in information technology managing large-scale mainframe and client/server projects. For the past three years I have been a director in a corporate strategy group focusing on long-term strategy. To date, many of the discussions I've had have ended with a concern over my lack of hot new skills. Am I going to have to take one step back before I can take two steps forward?

Fellow Network World columnist Mark Gibbs knows what he is talking about most of the time, but that's not the case in his column on the ICANN.