We at KDI make a product called the NetSentron. It’s many things in one: firewall, network management toolkit, and true Internet content filter. If you were to buy these things from another company, you’d probably have to get each of them separately and that would be very expensive.
Most people have figured out [...]
Here’s a problem with file backup: it’s intangible.
Like many things in the IT world, backing up of computerized data is an ethereal concept. Network security, database migrations, remote access—all of these, including file backup, are Not Physically There in peoples’ minds. Groceries, wrought iron fencing, office furniture? We know what these [...]
Over the last year or so we’ve been working closely with some postsecondary education clients. What I want to take a close look at is what we’re doing for a certain college. The outcome is an example of what we mean when we say KDI gives organizations the tools to change their [...]
In just a few weeks the postsecondary education season will begin anew. Presidents and Deans and Department Heads alike will all be scrambling to do something they probably haven’t been insisted upon to achieve in the past: run a money-making operation.
Postsecondary institutions, until the recent change in the economy, were either Endowment-driven [...]
The move in education using computers is unquestionably towards co-operative and project-based learning. If you’re using computers as a teaching tool, you’re going to have to make some time to keep current with IT. In the words of another district administrator, “a one or two hour workshop is not enough training to accomplish real change [...]
An important step is for you, as a teacher, to understand where the IT person is coming from. They are certainly not coming at the issue of computers from the same perspective as you! For the IT people, those computers you want to use as teaching tools are all about funding and budgets, and time [...]
Technologists themselves admit they wish they could wave a magic wand, and reverse the proportion of time they spend on workstation support versus working with you. They’re ready to give you the attention they know you want: they simply don’t have the time yet! Now that you know these things, use that knowledge to your [...]
When most people think of an Internet content filter, they think of an application that blocks a list of known inappropriate websites. However, there’s a lot more your content filter could be doing for your school, business or organization—especially when working together with a bandwidth monitoring tool.
The Web content filter that works off of [...]
Recently we at KDI were doing some EDI setup work for a client. It was on the weekend because that’s when we’d minimize disruption. We were remotely logged into the client’s AS/400 server when a real disruption occurred: the warning came up that one of the hard drives that had been chugging [...]
A surprisingly large number of organizations are still using IBM AS/400 servers. However, the expertise to operate these tough old machines is fading away—people retire, the local IT rep closes down their shop, techs move on. And nobody is teaching this stuff in schools today.
We get many calls like this:
“We have an [...]
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