May 5, 2009
In previous posts I documented a financial strategy that allows the average district to afford ubiquitous and/or one-to-one computing. This week I want to broaden the strategy to energy savings. It’s amazing what a significant savings replacing traditional ‘fat clients’ with ‘thin clients’ can be. The University of Pennsylvania produced the energy graph below [...]
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December 18, 2008
Cross Posted at Ed Tech Journeys Recommendation: Shift the current ‘Distributed Network’ paradigm to the emerging practice of ‘Virtualization’. There are several technical approaches to virtualizing networks but, in general, most involve running software on centralized servers rather than on the hard drives of thousands of computers distributed throughout the school district network. In a [...]
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