Higher Education Transformation

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Higher Education Transformation

7 Things You Should Know About VDI

June 24, 2011

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) separates the operating system and applications from the client device, providing a model of desktop computing that is much more flexible and efficie…

7 Things You Should Know About IPv6

April 20, 2011

The rapid expansion in the use of the Internet, coupled with explosive growth in the number of devices that access it, has prompted development of a new protocol, IPv6. Apart from adding subs…

7 Things You Should Know About Cloud Security

September 3, 2010

Cloud computing promises to provide considerable benefits for colleges and universities, including increased reliability and flexibility, with lower or more transparent costs. At the same time, c…

7 Things You Should Know About VoIP

July 30, 2010

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a technology that converts voice calls to data packets that travel over the same networks that carry data traffic. With VoIP, users with can make calls via …

7 Things You Should Know About Net Neutrality

June 22, 2010

Net neutrality is the principle that broadband Internet providers will handle all network traffic in a nondiscriminatory manner. The Internet was conceived as an “open” service that would ope…

7 Things You Should Know About Emergency Notification Systems

April 21, 2010

An emergency notification system (ENS) provides broad-based notification to on- and off-campus communities in the event of a crisis or emergency, including natural disasters and acts of terrorism…

7 Things You Should Know About Green IT

March 23, 2010

A broad consciousness has developed about environmental sustainability, and IT is not only is responsible for an appreciable portion of emissions but is also in a position to facilitate reduction…

7 Things You Should Know About DNSSEC

January 15, 2010

The Domain Name System (DNS) uses a distributed network of name servers to translate text-based web addresses into IP addresses, directing Internet traffic to proper servers. DNS was built withou…

7 Things You Should Know About Virtualization

October 5, 2009

Virtualization is an approach by which several applications—sometimes running on different operating systems—run on the same piece of hardware, creating multiple “virtual” servers from a …

7 Things You Should Know About Cloud Computing

August 3, 2009

Cloud computing is the delivery of scalable IT resources over the Internet, as opposed to hosting and operating those resources locally, such as on a college or university network. Those resource…