THE Journal

After more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for returning to in-person learning in K-12 schools is growing. Read More

Two of the most important aspects of remote learning are connectivity and speed. If the connection is slow or lost, teachers can’t teach, and students can’t learn. Read More

Cyber attacks on K-12 will never go away. Rather than hoping clean-up will be easy, your best response is to never allow your district to become a victim in the first place. Learn more in this THE Journal Gamechanger, including: Read More

Virtual and hybrid learning demand tools that are durable, user friendly, provide excellent sound quality and all day comfort. Our headsets were specifically designed to meet these needs in both K-12 and Higher Ed environments. Read More

Every school and district recognizes that cybersecurity is of concern. But, some are further along than others in gaining administrative and board support for investing in the measures needed to enhance the existing security profile. Read More

As the results of a recent THE Journal survey show, a solid cybersecurity stance starts where it always has: by setting the right priorities. Read More

In 2020, cyber criminals launched four types of endpoint threats responsible for 10X more than all others: Cryptomining, phishing, trojans, and ransomware. Criminals also launched highly coordinated, multi-stage attacks, using proven, tested malware vehicles to deliver ransomware and steal data. In our latest report, Cybersecurity threat trends: phishing, crypto top the list, we used Cisco Umbrella to capture billions of queries, identifying the top cyber threats in 2020, and how to stop them in the future. Read More

The rise of ransomware over the past few years is an ever-growing problem and there are no signs of this extremely lucrative criminal enterprise going away. Are you concerned about keeping your school or district up and running in the face of an attack? Read More

Find out why security built into the foundation of the internet is better at providing visibility into internet activity across all students and staff and all devices, on and off-campus. Read More

Trying to get ahead by staying behind a firewall won’t work in 2021. A number of obstacles stand between you and a safe network. Your security solution shouldn't be one of them. Avoid these six common network security pitfalls that put your users, their devices, and your data at risk. Read More

Digital transformation, the move to the cloud, and a rapidly expanding attack surface are driving the need for a new class of endpoint security, capable of defending organizations against a more diverse and sophisticated threat landscape. Is your endpoint security ready? Read More

Classroom management software has been used to facilitate digital learning for over 30 years, but many educators had never tried it until the pandemic forced schools to turn to 1:1 distance learning. Software like LanSchool, is just as useful in the classroom, but if you’ve never purchased it before, you may have questions about how to choose among the options in the edtech market. Read More

ABM has partnered with the Madison County Public Schools district in northeastern Georgia as their provider of integrated facility services, saving them a projected $40 million over 17 years. Read More

Students and teachers alike are struggling in our newly hybrid world where learning takes place partly on-site and partly remote. Focus and motivation are limited. Distraction and disengagement are routine. The truth is, there’s no silver bullet for addressing the COVID era’s confusing and cumbersome educational terrain. But there’s at least one question worth asking: How can we make learning fun again? Read More

After a year of forced remote learning, many students and families are eagerly anticipating a return to the in-person classroom—but not all. In fact, a percentage of students, many of whom have typically been left behind in traditional classroom settings, have actually thrived in the distance learning environment. How can schools continue to evolve their remote learning capabilities to support these students? This Samsung guide will empower school leaders with a vision of what the future of remote learning looks like. Read More

Technology is the driving factor in the lasting impacts the pandemic is having on education. Learn more from the exclusive articles in this eBook, including: Read More

Now that districts are emerging from remote learning, teachers and staff may be using programs that aren’t the best choices long-term. It’s time to become more thoughtful about the software solutions you invest in. The results may surprise you. Read More

The past few decades have brought significant changes in K-12 education. Many schools have empowered students by giving them a mobile device for learning. Education is becoming more personalized and engaging, with students taking a more active role in their learning. Student-driven inquiry, creation and collaboration are replacing teacher-centered instruction — and anytime, anywhere learning is becoming a reality. Read More

Technology is transforming K–12 education by enabling richer, more personalized and more student-centered learning environments. Aided by technology, students are collaborating with their peers and with subject-matter experts around the world, creating and sharing original ideas. In this new era of learning, a powerful and scalable network is essential for delivering on technology’s promise. This e-book will help you understand how to be prepared to meet evolving network requirements. Read More

Digital transformation is the integration of technology throughout all areas of education to fundamentally alter teaching, learning and school operations. It’s not tinkering around the edges. It’s making wholesale changes to the entire organization to drive systemic change. And it’s not just improving on old processes. It’s reimagining these to deliver more value to students and other stakeholders in ways we couldn’t envision just a generation ago. Read More

In this report, we analyze how teachers are using digital content and resources in the classroom today and the views of technology leaders for how to effectively support that usage. These insights will be contextualized around the concept of bandwidth stability and usage in the classroom specifically to drive academic outcomes. Included in this report are the perspectives of teachers and their students about the workplace and academic outcomes associated with effective technology use in the classroom. Read More

Richland School District upgrades technology, increases efficiency, and reduces costs with VDI. Read More

Schools must continuously provide a flexible desktop environment for their students, teachers, and administrators. Download this white paper to learn more about desktop virtualization solutions that are uniquely positioned to deliver rapid deployment of desktops and offer superior control and security of centralized desktops—all while reducing overall desktop total cost of ownership. (TCO). Read More

Indianapolis Public School District installs virtual desktops to increase student access to new learning materials. Read More

Oak Hills Local School District supports academic success by providing students with more access to the classroom. Read More

Cisco VXI delivers an end-to-end virtual workspace solution that provides the security, scalability, and flexibility of desktop virtualization together with voice and video capabilities for an uncompromised and productive user experience. Read More

School District uses web-based tools to help teachers share information and enhance instruction. Read More

With each one of your students bringing their unique perspectives to the classroom, how can you take advantage of technology to help them learn more effectively, develop specialized skills, and provide the foundation for their success in the 21st century global economy? Read More

Learn how Fontana Unified School District increases student, faculty, and staff collaboration utilizing Cisco TelePresence solution. Read More

Unified Workspace is a strategy for delivering Cisco Smart Solutions within your educational environment, helping you empower learners, improve agility, and operate more efficiently. Read More

Learn how Katy ISD transforms education with mobile learning. Read More

Learn how Farmington Public Schools installed network solutions resulting in increased mobility for students and staff. Read More

Learn how Mooresville’s “Digital Conversion” puts kids first. Read More

Download this white paper to learn how the Cisco BYOD Solution for Education helps to get mobile devices connected both simply and securely. Read More

The Rowan-Salisbury School System is comprised of 35 schools, about 20,000 students, and roughly 3,000 employees. They were facing the growth pains that come for school districts that embrace high-tech trends. They needed to accommodate an influx of Apple iPads, iPod Touches, laptops, and other popular Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices on its wireless network. Learn how the Rowan-Salisbury School System deployed a Wireless LAN that allowed students to use the same device in the classroom as they use at home, providing an enriched learning experience for the students. Read More

Like any massive school district, RUSD faces a mobile-device onslaught, especially because the district is implementing a one-to-one program using tablet computers. This tablet program drove the need for a high-performance, scalable, reliable WLAN at the schools. Learn about the wireless LAN deployment at RUSD and the benefits they’re seeing from having wireless and future plans for their WLAN deployment. Read More

Computer and Internet use in K-12 schools has evolved from a “nice to have” into a “must have” as educators, parents and school boards recognize how engaging, individualized curriculum can enrich the student learning experience and demonstrably improve standardized test scores. Read More

Download this whitepaper to learn how assistive technology can revolutionize the lives of students with special needs. By providing a single source for acquiring, managing and servicing assistive technology, Dell, working with Intel, empowers students to meet their goals. Read More

Learn how to transform and enhance science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning among elementary students through technology. Read More

Learn how to use classroom technologies and interactive presentation tools to better engage middle-school students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning. Read More

Learn how integrating technology and digital tools in the classroom helps improve science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning in high school students. Read More

One of the most overlooked aspects of the BYOD phenomenon isn’t just connecting the users to the network, but how to manage them once they’re there. Getting mobile and BYO devices onto the network is now table stakes. This white paper will take you through the necessary connectivity and productivity requirements in order to ensure your network is truly ready for the mobility explosion. Read More

Plano Independent School District (ISD) covers approximately 100 square miles, encompassing the city of Plano, the ninth largest municipal in Texas. The district currently employees 7,000 faculty and staff members and educates over 55,000 students per year. Plano ISD has achieved national recognition for its high academic standards. Read More

Smart schools improve learning with intelligent wireless networking. Read More

After extensive research, we selected Xirrus Wireless Arrays and the Stoneware LanSchool platform as the most effective solution for seamlessly supporting our bandwidth demands and classroom management needs. Read More

From its inception, Xirrus has understood that traditional enterprise Wi-Fi solutions are not built to effectively scale to handle expanding wireless performance requirements. In this whitepaper we discuss building a wireless network to support in the influx of Wi-Fi enabled device Read More

Building a wireless infrastructure for the digital classroom that not only meets today’s demands but also those of the coming years. Read More

As more devices use the corporate wireless network, the network needs to be able to handle the increased utilization of network resources. Read More

This paper follows the ascent of Wi-Fi and looks at how its expanding role within the enterprise — including public or private organizations in the education, health care, government and safety sectors. We also examine how these requirements will be met by further expansion in the Wi-Fi standards and by a new generation of Wi-Fi equipment and devices. We will discuss how the enterprise can benefit from the evolution of Wi-Fi by deploying future-proof networks that will organically improve performance. Read More

This whitepaper provides an overview of how Minooka Community Consolidated School District has deployed HP thin clients on the desktop to deliver reliability in the classroom, while providing more efficient centralized management of application software, via remote management. Business benefits highlighted include improved access, availability for more users and hardware cost savings. Download this case study to learn more. Read More

Hudson Falls Central School District benefits from reliable, flexible classroom technology by implementing the HP SchoolCloud solution, including HP Thin Clients linked to HP Server Blades. Read More

In today’s educational environments, more and more students, guests, and faculty are bringing in their own Wi-Fi devices into the school’s network. This presents a unique challenge to the IT administrator. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions IT administrators are facing and how HP is addressing the security and management of the multiple devices being introduced into the wireless/wired network. Read More

Cloud computing offers an easy and cost-effective way to realize the benefits that technology in education brings to K-12 classrooms while deriving the greatest value from your district's IT budget. Read More

In today's educational environments, more and more students, guests, and faculty are bringing in their own Wi-Fi devices into the school's network. This presents a unique challenge to the IT administrator. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions IT administrators are facing and how HP is addressing the security and management of the multiple devices being introduced into the wireless/wired network. Read More

Several K-12 schools are not able to capitalize on the growing technical opportunities that exist in today’s society because of the limitations of their WLAN networks. This whitepaper will discuss the obstacles that K-12 IT teams are facing in expanding mobility and how the HP Optimized WLAN Architecture’s unique features can help to eliminate these barriers. Read More

In today’s educational environments, more and more students, guests, and faculty are bringing in their own Wi-Fi devices into the school’s network. This presents a unique challenge to the IT administrator. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions IT administrators are facing and how HP is addressing the security and management of the multiple devices being introduced into the wireless/wired network. Read More

Citrix provides an academic computing virtualization solution to address the desktop, the data infrastructure and the datacenter itself to ease the strain on IT while improving the delivery of administrative and instructional applications to any faculty member or student, in any location, on any end device with an Internet connection. Read More

Citrix understands the complexities associated with the switch to virtualization, and created the Desktop Transformation Model to provide practical guidance and simplify the virtual desktop adoption process. Citrix applies its proven methodology to help IT move from a traditional, distributed physical desktop system into a centrally delivered desktop environment. Read More

York County Schools needed to deliver anytime, anywhere access to teaching and learning systems, so they turned to a scalable virtual desktop solution using Citrix XenDesktop and NetApp storage solutions. The district now uses 60% less storage and 97% less energy – and deployed desktops (in nine schools) which can be updated in hours rather than months. Read More

Download this whitepaper to see why FlexPod is a leading solution for Citrix desktop virtualization and how it can help you. Read More

The meaning of "going to school" is changing. While school is more important than ever, the idea that the classroom serves as the primary educational venue is being uprooted. See how you can virtualize resources to deliver consistent learning experiences, regardless of device or location. Read More

Park Hill School District uses Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to improve district wide desktop management and online access. Read More

While minimalism in computing has been around since the 1990s, the concept only recently has hit its stride: Computer devices that only carry out essential applications, or "thin clients", have a longer operational life span, cut energy use and are less expensive to purchase and maintain. As the phenomenon of software as a service gains traction, in fact, thin clients are already replacing desktop PCs in many government, commercial and educational settings. Learn more in this white paper "Thin Client Computing: Providing Solutions and Dispelling Myths". Read More

Download this whitepaper to gain insights from Cisco's perspective about the benefits, barriers and options that exist regarding cloud computing along with their implementation strategy and guidance about how to navigate the landscape. Read More

The Pender County School District in North Carolina wanted to find the most affordable, scalable, and easily managed wireless LAN. After examining all of its alternatives, the district found success with Aerohive Networks. Read More

After a visit to Apple's Cupertino campus, Holly Area School District’s Director of Technology was inspired to deploy MacBooks, iPads, Apple’s 21C digital media tools, and other devices to the district's students, connecting them to the Wi-Fi network Read More

Virtualization, cloud computing, and wireless technology are fundamentally changing enterprise computing, providing revolutionary gains in productivity and cost savings. Powerful enterprise applications can now be delivered to almost any device, anywhere, at any time. Read More

Allegany County Public Schools was facing those growth pains that come for folks who embrace high-tech trends: It needed to accommodate an influx of Apple iPads, and other popular Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices, on its wireless network. Read More

This paper examines how schools can apply 802.11n enterprise-class Wi-Fi technology in ways that pay while overcoming such traditional challenges as shrinking budgets, high network management costs, and nagging performance and reliability troubles Read More

Horry County Schools ran into reliability and manageability problems with its existing wireless network. They needed a more robust solution to serve as the Wi-Fi infrastructure for its highly distributed environment. Read More

StudentManager & TeacherView simplifies the process of bringing wireless devices into the classroom and empowers teachers to monitor and manage their classroom. This solution helps create an efficient teaching environment while enhancing productivity. Read More

Aerohive built a Bonjour Gateway to manage and control Apple service availability (such as AirPrint™, AirPlay®, file sharing, collaboration applications, etc.) across an entire enterprise network. Ensure students are connected – to the right content. Read More

Download the conversation between two thought leaders from two different schools in addition to SonicWALL’s responses discussing online assisted learning, collaborative learning and remote education. Read More

Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) address the security and content filtering challenges faced by today’s K-12 organizations. NGFWs deliver a comprehensive and highly granular solution for network security, bandwidth management and content control that reduces the cost and complexity of running educational networks. Read More

SonicWALL Solutions for K-12 Education. Read More

Danbury Public Schools deployed a SonicWALL E-Class NSA E7500 and NSA 2400 to optimize network performance. Read More

Crete-Monee School District deployed E-Class NSA E6500 firewalls, an SRA 4200 and SonicWALL ViewPoint™ to optimize their bandwidth and achieve CIPA compliance for the district. Read More

Lee's Summit R-7 School District deployed the SonicWALL® E-Class NSA E7500 to guarantee and prioritize bandwidth for its high-priority applications, such as online testing, end-of-course state assessments, Polycom® video traffic and curriculum applications. Read More

Mannheim School District 83 supports 2,800 students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in Franklin Park, Melrose Park and Northlake, Illinois. Read More

Hall County Schools leverages SonicWALL Appliance Intelligence, Control and Visualization for bandwidth management and prioritization of application traffic for VoIP, video conferencing and social media resources. Read More

There is a recent and exciting movement to cloud-based infrastructures in K–12 education—and for good reason. Cloud computing enables access to applications, data, information, content and curriculum from anywhere an Internet connection is available. It helps improve secure data management and meets the needs of rapidly changing content and software applications. Read More

The pressure to achive in K-12 education has never been greater. Students are expected to learn more, teachers and administrators are expected to do more, and all of this has to be measured more, even while budgets are cut. This strategy guide explains how you can upgrade technology, standardize equipment and improve IT practices in your schol district. This whitepaper is a rich media document, and includes IDC Analyst reasearch, multimedia content, solutions brief, valuable reference articles and up to 3 customer case stidies, all embedded in a single document. Read More

This whitepaper provides an overview of how Minooka Community Consolidated School District has deployed HP thin clients on the desktop to deliver reliability in the classroom, while providing more efficient centralized management of application software, via remote management. Business benefits highlighted include improved access, availability for more users and hardware cost savings. Download this case study to learn more. Read More

You’ve seen the benefits that technology brings to education, not only for teaching and learning but also for management and administration. Yet given today’s troubled economy, chances are you’re also concerned about the cost. As applications proliferate, how will you keep up with the constant need to replace or upgrade software, servers and high-performance desktops and notebooks? Read More

This whitepaper discusses how K-12 districts can unleash the freedon that Wi-Fi affords them in learning and administration, by embracing sophisticated WLANS. It provides an overview of wireless learning, the HP Advantage, protecting students/data, easing and unifying management and how to lower TCO. Read More

The school had been using Cisco Systems technology. But after comducting a competitive analysis it decided to go with HP, which saved it more than $2M. Combined with HP's lifetime equipment warranty and free firmware and software upgrades, the district lowered its projected cost of ownership for the new network. Read More

Online learning, mobile technologies and distance learning have all contributed to the need for a secure and easy to administer network for schools. Find out how creating a high-performing, safe network doesn’t have to break your budget. Read More

Using Adobe Creative Suite 5.5, students are able to communicate complex ideas in compelling and creative ways that are unique to each student. Read More

Data has become the lifeblood of education. Governments predicate their school funding on it; districts demonstrate the effectiveness of their practices with it; schools prove the merits of their instructional approaches by it; instructors redirect their lesson plans because of it. This white paper reveals how you can use business analytics to make sense of all your data to drive decision making andimprove student performance and student retention. Read More

This whitepaper will uncover the results of the research of Professor Dr. Anne Bamford, the Director of the International Research Agency, regarding the use of 3D animations on students learning performance, especially in testing. Read More

This paper explores the potential advantages of using desktop virtualization for PCs rather than taking the traditional approach where every computer has its own operating system, resident applications, memory, processing power, and storage. Read More

Expanding and upgrading your school district’s outdated LAN network is vital in meeting the multimedia needs of your students and faculty while preventing network outages, spotty coverage, and security concerns. Learn how Gilbert Public Schools found a broadband network solution that saved them $2 million over other proposals. Read More

In this white paper, GroupLogic, the leading provider of solutions for the cross-platform enterprise, will explore the challenges faced by K-12 institutions today, as well as some of the inherent benefits of those same issues. Read More

The pressure to achieve in K-12 education has never been greater. Students are expected to learn more, teachers and administrators are expected to do more, and all of this has to be measured more, even while budgets are cut. This strategy guide explains how you can upgrade technology, standardize equipment and improve IT practices in your school district... Read More

Maintaining productive and smoothly running business operations is essential for today’s campuses. They need reliable IT systems—servers, storage, networked PCs, and printers—that will not only support their internal operations, but also can quickly adapt to changing business conditions. Read More

A growing number of today’s organizations are looking to streamline technology operations—removing outdated, non-standard equipment and legacy infrastructures that are slow and unreliable—in their branch offices as a way to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and better serve their customers. Read More

From dealing with rogue “IT hobbyists” to naïve bosses, Kaseya presents common IT systems management pain points in the education industry and our solutions to each. Read More

You’ve seen the benefits that technology brings to education, not only for teaching and learning but also for management and administration. Yet given today’s troubled economy, chances are you’re also concerned about the cost. As applications proliferate, how will you keep up with the constant need to replace or upgrade software, servers and high-performance desktops and notebooks? Read More

This whitepaper provides an overview of how Minooka Community Consolidated School District has deployed HP thin clients on the desktop to deliver reliability in the classroom, while providing more efficient centralized management of application software, via remote management. Business benefits highlighted include improved access, availability for more users and hardware cost savings. Download this case study to learn more. Read More

There is a recent and exciting movement to cloud-based infrastructures in K–12 education—and for good reason. Cloud computing enables access to applications, data, information, content and curriculum from anywhere an Internet connection is available. It helps improve secure data management and meets the needs of rapidly changing content and software applications. Read More

How schools can guarantee open networks and still keep data safe. Read More

Crete-Monee School District deployed E-Class NSA E6500 firewalls, an SRA 4200 and SonicWALL ViewPoint™ to optimize their bandwidth and achieve CIPA compliance for the district. Read More

Trying to get ahead by staying behind a firewall won’t work in 2021. A number of obstacles stand between you and a safe network. Your security solution shouldn't be one of them. Avoid these six common network security pitfalls that put your users, their devices, and your data at risk. Read More

As the results of a recent THE Journal survey show, a solid cybersecurity stance starts where it always has: by setting the right priorities. Read More

Maintaining productive and smoothly running business operations is essential for today’s campuses. They need reliable IT systems—servers, storage, networked PCs, and printers—that will not only support their internal operations, but also can quickly adapt to changing business conditions. Read More

Digital transformation, the move to the cloud, and a rapidly expanding attack surface are driving the need for a new class of endpoint security, capable of defending organizations against a more diverse and sophisticated threat landscape. Is your endpoint security ready? Read More

This paper follows the ascent of Wi-Fi and looks at how its expanding role within the enterprise — including public or private organizations in the education, health care, government and safety sectors. We also examine how these requirements will be met by further expansion in the Wi-Fi standards and by a new generation of Wi-Fi equipment and devices. We will discuss how the enterprise can benefit from the evolution of Wi-Fi by deploying future-proof networks that will organically improve performance. Read More

A growing number of today’s organizations are looking to streamline technology operations—removing outdated, non-standard equipment and legacy infrastructures that are slow and unreliable—in their branch offices as a way to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and better serve their customers. Read More