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ACTI Update: Meeting Report: November 28, 2012

Members and others interested in advanced core technologies joined the November 6 ACTI Update meeting at the 2012 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado. This report includes highlights f…
BYOD and Consumerization of IT in Higher Education Research, 2013: March 25, 2013

Key Findings "For BYOE, the most important aspects of IT infrastructure are middle components…the commodities that bridge users, their devices, and their consumer-level applications to …
2013 Planning Guide: Data Center, Infrastructure, Operations, Private Cloud and Desktop Transformation: November 1, 2012

In 2013, organizations will continue transitioning data centers to improve efficiency and agility. This Gartner report provides guidance to help operations and data center leaders and C…
Five Guidelines for Instituting IT Value Measurement: November 13, 2012

Factors including budget cutbacks, rigorous regulatory requirements, rising demands for IT services, and IT’s contribution to transformative change fuel the need for IT leaders to communicate I…
Research Computing: The Enabling Role of Information Technology: November 2, 2012

Key Findings Information technology’s primary research computing role is as an enabler of research. Provision of specialized staff—particularly programmers, analysts, and data-inten…
2012 ECAR Study of Analytics in Higher Education Infographic: June 22, 2012

The objectives of this research were to assess the current state of analytics in higher education, outline the challenges and barriers to using analytics, and develop a maturity index to provide …
ECAR National Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2012 Infographic: September 17, 2012

ECAR has surveyed undergraduate students annually since 2004 about technology in higher education. In 2012, ECAR collaborated with 195 institutions to collect responses from more than 100,000 stu…
IT Infrastructure to Support Analytics: Laying the Groundwork for Institutional Analytics: October 23, 2012

Analytics has become a hot topic in the educational community, and several key questions must be addressed concerning the infrastructure of an analytics program. These issues include the …
Decision Point for Selecting a Mobile Application Architecture: October 15, 2012

Application developers must make a number of architectural decisions when designing a mobile application. This Gartner IT1 report explores the four dimensions of application architectur…
ACTI-CCI Working Group Status Report (1/10/12): January 10, 2012

Presentation from the ACTI Campus Cyberinfrastructure (ACTI-CCI) Working Group at the ACTI 2012 Member Meeting on January 10, 2012. This presents on the group's 2012 agenda, focusing on the …