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Educause and Caudit Study Tour
• Educause– largest IT in Edu
conference in the world
• Caudit Study Tour– opportunity to visit
major US vendors on home turf
Educause - main themes
• What to do about collaboration and web 2.0
• Email outsourcing• Identity
management
Collaboration
Many US universities struggling with impact of collaboration (at best group learning - at worst sharing work)
Real problem to some universities
Widespread ignorance of wikis, blogs and
collaboration tools
Collaboration
• Some interest in LMS’s and group learning
• No real understanding/nothing outstanding
Email outsourcing
• Two contenders– windows live @edu– google apps
– Both promise much the same, email, shared document editing, blogging, some collaboration tools
Windows live@edu
• more than just email• full details of offering
at http://get.live.com/edu
• email, simple word processing, online filestore, sharing, blogging
Windows live@edu
• Currently not platform independent or Web2.0
• Users need to download applets and run them
• Next version will be properly web based
• and …
Windows live@edu
• Email integration with exchange coming in 2008 to allow students on windows live to share calendars with staff of ‘real’ exchange
• https://www.exchangelabs.com/• googling for exchange labs is a good
idea
Google Apps for Education
• Presentation tools
• Blogging
• Shared document and spreadsheet editing
• http://www.google.com/a/edu/
Windows live vs Google Apps
• Not a lot of difference in functionality• Both offer advertising free email with
university logo’s• Alumni get to keep account but get
advertising• Vendors want to snare customer base• Example:
http://www.it.northwestern.edu/stucollab/
Identity Mangement
• Everyone’s fining it hard
• Everyone has the same issues we do• Nice example from Temple on forcing
password changes : http://www.temple.edu/tusecure/index.htm
Zotero
• reference manager plug in for firefox 2.0
• replaces furl, end note, digg and the rest of them
• http://www.zotero.org
Caudit Study Tour
• Fairly intense experience
• Lot of material under NDA
• Going to concentrate on highlights
Honeycomb (Storagetek 5800)
• Sun’s digital preservation platform• Purpose designed for an object store
and index engine & database• http://www.sun.com/emrkt/
educonnection/newsletter/1107eduinsight.html?cid=e3661
• http://www.sun.com/storagetek/disk_systems/enterprise/5800/index.xml
Blackbox
• data centre in a shipping container
• http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/index.jsp
• Coming to Canberra http://au.sun.com/events/blackbox/index.jsp?cid=922602
Sunspot
• minimalist java computers for teaching programming
• aim is for a logo style experience
• http://www.sunspotworld.com/
Microsoft
• Collaboration services need identity services
• policy based rbac model incompatible with silo basd identity/application provision
• windows live id
• www.identityblog.com
Microsoft
• Virtualisation seen as the way forward
• increasing resources put into their virtualisation product
• aim is to beat VmWare
Apple
• Internal IT– low number of people per box– extreme standardisation with some choice
• café style pick list
– interoperability reduces support load
VmWare
• Engineer led company
• new things– site recovery
manager to automate workflow
– improved storage granularity to move vmfs’s between storage pools
VmWare
• storage
• granularity increases resilience
• vmfs allows stores to be moved on the fly– virtual data centre– real time capacity management
VmWare
• increasing interest in client virtualisation
• pc’s not strategic - desktop environment is
• eg pano - http://www.panologic.com/
• Cloud computing model
• use of google apps internally
• also interested in id management
• google uses shibboleth for some authentication processes and helped shib work with SAML2 and Liberty
Stanford University
• has had a formative input into a lot of these companies
• many are stanford spin offs
Stanford
• Stanford still has a key role in developing new technologies including learning technologies
Stanford
• not everything is hi tech• technology enables -
not an end in itself• flexible spaces to allow
experimentation• laptops without power
are dead weights
Palo alto
• again full of hi tech spin offs from stanford
• also still a kind of nice university town - st andrews without sleet or oxford without rain
Lockss/Clockss
• ANU is going to be signing up to clocks, took the opportunity to meet up with the people involved
• http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Home
Alexander Steak House
• America is the land of meat– came back feeling I
would moo if poked– Apple took us to this
upmarket steak house with a display of dead cow parts in the foyer
Conclusions
• Collaboration, web 2.0 and the rest increasingly important
• id management is key to a lot of this
• less and less about hardware, more and more abstracted away from hardware and OS
where can I get a copy
• copies of the presentation are available from:
http://au.geocities.com/moncur_d/educause_caudit.ppt