Sun Microsystems has unveiled the world’s only application utility that enables on-demand delivery of HPC (high-performance computing) applications over the network. Called Sun Grid Application Catalog, and available through network.com, the utility offers immediate pay-per-use access to 20 unique open source applications with more expected from the 50-100 communities ...

Email and collaboration services were a frustration for Northwestern University’s student government. The assembly brought the problem to the administration a year ago, specifically recommending Google Apps as a potential solution. The school, now partnering with Google to address the students’ needs, will offer e-mail, calendar and Google Talk, with mailboxes fifty times larger than their previous ones.

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Eighty-eight colleges and universities. Two-and-a-half million downstream users. Paul Schopis is associate director of OARnet, based at The Ohio State University, and as such he oversees an expansive network for users with a wide range of needs. In this podcast Paul discusses the challenges he faces in building and maintaining such a network, shares some knowledge learned in his ten years at OARnet, and explains the fish problem.

This Juniper Networks podcast is part of the Juniper Networks Master of IT program.

Venture capital investor Charles Beeler speaks with fellow-VC Steve Hall (his DEMO observations can be found here), from Vulcan Capital, at DEMO 2007 in January. Another positive mention for Zink, and agreement that lots of small steps are being taken in the direction of improving search technology. Hall also gets in a plug for one of his investments….

With over 3,200 technology and 500 life science companies in the state, and 8% year-over-year growth, Utah leads the western states region in creating and sustaining these companies. Richard Nelson, president and CEO of the Utah Technology council (formerly UITA) shares his observations about the Utah business climate, the accomplishments ...