Education
April 29, 2008
EBSCO Publishing on Coradiant
“TrueSight is saving me a day a week, and I’m able to do extra tasks that are helping our business .”-- Sandy Barry, Director of Database Services, EBSCO Publishing
Customer Profile - EBSCO Publishing is the worldwide
leader in managing full text and bibliographic databases for libraries worldwide. By offering library users access to more than 300 unique reference sources – secondary databases, full-text databases and current journal subscriptions such as Business Week, New England Journal of Medicine, Consumer Reports and Harvard Business Review – the company enables publishers to receive high exposure for their content.
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March 13, 2008
Wayne State University on Compuware
"We were up and running with the Compuware products within three days, and solved the problem in a day—my staff was amazed."-- John Camp, Chief Information Officer, Wayne State University
Customer Profile - Wayne State University is located in Detroit, Michigan, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center. Wayne State is a research intensive university with 11 schools and colleges offering more than 350 major subject areas to 33,000 graduate and undergraduate students. The WSU main campus encompasses 203 acres (822,000 m²) linking 100 education and research buildings in the heart of Detroit. It has six extension centers in the Metro Detroit area providing access to a limited selection of courses.
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February 20, 2008
Columbia College on Coradiant
“TrueSight takes all of the guesswork out of troubleshooting web applications”-- Mike Marquart, Director of Applications Development, Columbia College Chicago
Customer Profile - With more than 120 academic programs and nearly 12,000 students, Columbia College Chicago is the largest and most diverse private arts and media college in the nation. Columbia College Chicago offers an unparalleled array of courses with exceptional technological resources in the heart of one of America's greatest cities.
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February 13, 2008
Bruce Boardman on Gigamon Systems
“Gigamon was founded by industry veterans and putting customer first has always been their strength. They clearly have been listening to our suggestions. By improving the functionalities to provide four 10 Gig ports and four hot swappable slots, the GigaVUE 420 is a much more flexible and expandable solution. In fact, with four GigaTAP modules, we can now tap eight full duplex Gigabit links in a 1U chassis ... Our monitoring need at Syracuse University is a constant moving target and we are known to be very aggressive in pushing our vendors. Gigamon has listened and delivered. Nice!”-- Bruce Boardman, Network Engineer, Syracuse University
Customer Profile - Before joining the IT team full time at Syracuse University, Bruce was best known as the Executive Editor of Network Computing, a CMP Media publication.
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January 14, 2008
Round Rock ISD on Mirage Networks
“With our small network IT staff, it is essential that we have an automated solution to stop worms that get past perimeter defenses. With the Mirage Networks solution, instead of 200 or 300 systems to clean up, we’ll only have the initial infection point, which will remain contained until we have the time to remediate that system.”-- Dan Scott, Senior Systems Engineer, Round Rock ISD
Customer Profile - Round Rock Independent School District (ISD) is a school district headquartered in the city of Round Rock, Texas, United States. As of 2007, the school district served 39,079 students and includes all of Round Rock, northwestern portions of the City of Austin, and unincorporated portions of Williamson and Travis counties (including Anderson Mill).
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December 5, 2007
Blackboard on Coradiant
“TrueSight went from an exploratory product to one that has become mission critical. It gives us the ability to quickly show a quantitative report that indicates performance issues that are most often outside of the Blackboard network. That is really beneficial to the team.”-- Jonas Hirshfield, Director of Infrastructure Technology, Blackboard
Customer Profile - Blackboard Inc., a leading provider of educational enterprise software, offers a hosted service that allows teaching institutions worldwide to deliver real-time coursework and create portal environments that support commerce, personalized services and online communities. Blackboard’s hosting facilities, in data centers around the world, needed to support around-the-clock access to a potential audience of hundreds of thousands of users, while providing their education customers with a flexible, stable, secure environment.
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December 4, 2007
Education Management Corporation on NetQoS
“The performance of our critical applications has improved without question. We used to get daily performance complaint calls. Now we are getting comments about how good the performance is.”-- Martin Kowalewski, Senior Network Analyst, EDMC
Customer Profile - Education Management Corporation (EDMC) is among the largest providers of private post-secondary education in North America, based on student enrollment and revenue, with with 96,000 students as of Fall 2007 at 81 locations in 26 states and two Canadian provinces. EDMC's education institutions offer a broad range of academic programs in the media arts, design, fashion, culinary arts, behavioral sciences, health sciences, education, information technology and business, culminating in the award of associate's through doctoral degrees. EDMC has provided career-focused education for over 40 years and is the parent company of Argosy University, The Art Institutes, Brown Mackie College and South University.
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November 19, 2007
Penn State on Mirage Networks
“Managing each endpoint individually simply isn’t a realistic objective. That’s why a network-based solution makes sense — and why we selected Mirage NAC … Mirage NAC gives us the ability to both watch network traffic and take action when an offending device is identified.”-- Kathy Kimball, Director of Computer & Network Security, Penn State University
Customer Profile - The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related, land-grant university. The University has 24 campuses throughout the U.S. State of Pennsylvania, including a virtual World Campus. The enrollment at Penn State is over 84,000 students, placing it among the ten largest public universities in the United States. Penn State offers more than 160 majors and administers a $1.4 billion (USD) endowment.
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September 4, 2007
George Washington University on Reconnex
“The Reconnex iGuard technology will make it far easier and faster to find and mitigate problems, allowing us to improve network security while freeing up staff time for other important functions ... Adding the iGuard’s to GW’s defense-in-depth strategy is a proactive measure for staying ahead of the threat of data loss. We’re pleased to add the Reconnex appliances in support of our mission to protect confidential data while balancing security and academic freedom.”-- Krizi Trivisani, Chief Security Officer, George Washington University
Customer Profile - Located four blocks from the White House, The George Washington University (GW) was created by an Act of Congress in 1821. Today, GW is the largest institution of higher education in the nation’s capital. The University offers comprehensive programs of undergraduate and graduate liberal arts study as well as degree programs in medicine, public health, law, engineering, education, business, and international affairs. Each year, GW enrolls a diverse population of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and more than 120 countries.
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August 31, 2007
UC Berkeley on FireEye
“After looking at competitive solutions, we selected FireEye because of their completely unique approach to securing the internal wireless network.”-- Fred Archibald, Network Manager, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Customer Profile - At an epicenter of intellectual collaboration, the University of California, Berkeley is a leading higher education institution that enjoys a vibrant and dynamic array of students, faculty, and guest collaborators who hail from all around the world. UC Berkeley is one of the pioneers of the modern connected institution, with technology-enhanced classrooms, networked residence halls, shared computer labs, and wireless zones across the campus.
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August 30, 2007
UC Berkeley on Gigamon Systems
“The Gigamon data access switch has become an indispensable part of our network infrastructure in EECS. Some of my colleagues refer to it as the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of the data monitoring game. It is extremely flexible which is mandatory in our dynamic environment. Our internal network topology changes frequently and our monitoring tools must adapt quickly to these changes without burdening staff.”
-– Fred Archibald, Network Manager, Infrastructure Development and Support Group, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley
Customer Profile - The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) is the largest department within the College of Engineering which itself is one of the top five professional schools and colleges belonging to the 30,000-student University of California at Berkeley. Whether measured by headcount, operational cash flow, or capital investment and expenditures, EECS is comparable in scale to a typical Fortune-5000 corporation and therefore, not surprisingly, has similar networking requirement and infrastructure.
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August 20, 2007
Boise State University on EMC Smarts
“We are subject to several audits, covering a range of different parameters. At the end of the day, we are accountable for the security and compliance of all of the various systems and applications that we support. Basically, solution [from EMC Smarts] ‘turns on’ and dynamically creates an application dependency diagram that gives the visibility we need to prepare for audits and ensure that all of the applications are compliant — even those that are managed by outside vendors. It’s pretty slick.”— David O’Neill, Executive Director, Office of Information Technology, Boise State University
Customer Profile - Boise State University is a state university located near downtown Boise, the capital of the State of Idaho. Boise State was originally founded in 1932 as Boise Junior College. In 1965 it gained four-year status with creation of baccalaureate degrees and in 1969 joined the state system of higher education and was named Boise State College. In 1974 Boise State College gained university status and became Boise State University. BSU offers 201 degrees in 190 fields of study - from doctoral programs to technical certificates. With nearly 18,900 students, Boise State University is the largest institution of higher learning in Idaho.
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