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6/9/2010

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Kentucky Shifts Public Education System to Live@edu
In what Microsoft is calling "one of the largest cloud deployments and fastest migrations of all time," the commonwealth of Kentucky has switched over its PK-12 public education system to Live@edu for communications and collaboration, affecting about 700,000 students, faculty, and staff.
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Report: Worldwide Server Market Earnings Finally on Upswing
New industry research is pointing to further signs of improvements in information technology worldwide, specifically in the server market, where earnings have grown on the back of strong sales in the bladed market sector.
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California District To Install Solar Power Systems in 6 Schools
San Ramon Valley Unified School District (SRVUSD) of Danville, CA, will install solar energy systems in six of its schools over the next year for a total of 3 megawatts of power output.
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Memphis District Overhauls Network, Moves to Hosted VoIP
Memphis City Schools (MCS) in Tennessee has completed two major upgrades to its technology infrastructure, both aimed at improving overall efficiency and subsequent cost savings and creating enhanced educational opportunities offered by advancing technology.
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WSO2 Launches Open-Source Cloud Platform
Open-source middleware maker WSO2 has launched an open source cloud platform that should be of interest to enterprise Java developers. Called Stratos, it's a fully hosted application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for building and deploying apps and services "with instant provisioning of enterprise servers, including the portal, enterprise service bus (ESB) and application server."
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Deployment Automation Tool for Java EE Launched
The deployment phase of the application lifecycle can be an untidy business, prone to errors that result in delays. Automating the process, the experts say, can reduce errors and delays, not to mention headaches. Deployment automation has, in fact, become an essential component of a number of application lifecycle management (ALM) systems.
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Lower Merion Seeks Outside Help with IT Policies in Wake of Webcam Suit
The school district enmeshed in a lawsuit for using school laptops to capture images of students without their knowledge has just signed a $25,000 contract with SunGard Services to help with IT auditing and policy development. The school board for Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania approved the emergency expenditure in May 2010 after reviewing a report from a national legal firm that investigated the district's use of a "theft tracking" Webcam feature.
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Yahoo Develops Interface Classification System for Hadoop
Developers at Yahoo have been working on a new interface classification system in Hadoop to distinguish two facets of an interface from the perspective of backward compatibility: the audience of the interface and the stability of the interface.
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