07.01.09 Healthcare Informatics Eco-nomics Prior to the economic downturn, the movement for environmentally friendly or "green" practices had begun carving out a small but noteworthy niche in the healthcare IT industry. According to a 2008 survey by CDW Healthcare, 57 percent of providers had plans to actively pursue energy-efficient IT/recycling practices by 2009, and 21 percent said green IT policies guide the majority of their purchasing decisions. Learn more ... 06.16.09 Virtualization Journal Federal IT Managers Identify Significant Potential in Virtualization CDW Government, Inc. (CDW-G), has released its 2009 Federal Virtualization Report, an assessment of client, server and storage virtualization in Federal civilian and defense agencies. The report, based on an April survey of 377 Federal IT managers, reveals that while 73 percent say the technique, a broad term used to describe the abstraction of computer resources, is integral to improved efficiency in IT operations and reduced costs, just 20 percent indicate that their agencies are harnessing virtualization to the fullest extent. Learn more ... 05.19.09 T.H.E. Journal School Districts Increase Emergency Alerts, Surveillance on Students School districts are saturating their campuses with surveillance cameras, with nearly four in five (79 percent) reporting that they use cameras at their schools--an increase of nine points over the last 12 months, according to a new report. But overall, according to CDW Government (CDW-G), which conducted the survey, schools are not keeping pace with "increasing threats." Learn more ... 04.08.09 MedTech Journal Survey Finds Hospitals That Make Balanced Infrastructure Investments Enjoy Better Performance CDW Healthcare, part of the public sector subsidiary of CDW Corporation and a leading provider of technology products and services to healthcare organizations, today announced the results of the IT Checkup, a survey of more than 500 IT and clinical healthcare professionals from across the United States. The study reveals that hospitals with stronger IT infrastructures enjoy significantly better performance and results from their clinical applications than providers who deploy applications without concurrent investments in infrastructure. Learn more ... 03.13.09 Campus Technology Emergency Mass Notification Revisited Sometimes you need a wake-up call. Mine came at 8:12 a.m. Thursday, March 5, when a massive natural gas explosion blew out four historic buildings in downtown Bozeman, MT, just 50 miles away. Earlier in the week I had received a press release from CDW-G about a "Mass Notification Toolkit" but had been too busy to pursue it. "Just another vendor sales piece," had been my assumption. With fire departments from around the county rushing to the scene and a multi-block evacuation underway, I decided to take a closer look. Learn more ... 02.27.09 Federal News Radio DoD Out In Front with Unified Communications The Defense Department chief information officer, John Grimes, signed a memo in January calling for the military to begin testing using the Internet for all communications. The Unified Communications Strategy describes DoD's end state and how they were going to get there, according to Cindy Moran, the Defense Information Systems Agency's director of network services. Learn more ... 02.02.09 T.H.E. Journal Pennsylvania Ed Tech Initiative Shifts Students to Project-Based Learning Pennsylvania's three-year Classrooms for the Future (CFF) initiative has borne fruit, according to a recent study conducted jointly by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and education IT provider CDW Government. Learn more ... 01.29.09 Washington Technology Poll: Unified Communications on the Rise The prospect of unified communications has been slow to fulfill its promise, but a recent study released by CDW Corp. indicates that the dream lives on. Learn more ... 01.20.09 Federal News Radio Obama Has Plenty to Consider Before Hitting the ‘Send’ Button Will Barack Obama become the first president to use e-mail? It seems likely that Pres. Obama will use e-mail, and he will use a BlackBerry to send it. Learn more ... 01.13.09 InformationWeek Ohio Turns to Tech for Land Management The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has new technology to manage more than 590,000 acres of land. Learn more ... 01.05.09 The Chronicle of Higher Education Energy Drain by Computers Stifles Efforts at Cost Control For decades, the major computers at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center have multiplied almost without limit. Learn more ... 01.01.09 U.S. Water News Cameras Keep Watchful Eye on Wastewater Treatment Plant In the post-9/11 environment, cities and municipalities across the country are advancing beyond traditional physical security approaches typically used to help ensure the safety of community facilities, including recreation centers, courthouses, and public work structures. Learn more ... 12.11.08 Digital Learning Environments College Students Want More Classroom Tech U.S. colleges and universities are halfway to realizing 21st-century capabilities, says a new report measuring technology use in higher education. Learn more ... 12.09.08 HealthImaging.com Survey: Healthcare Tops Lists for IT Growth in U.S. Economic Cloud More than half of respondents to CDW’s annual IT Industry Straw Poll reported that healthcare and energy industries were strong growth segments for next year for IT, which aligns with the stated national objective to prescribe IT as a cure for increasing healthcare costs. Learn more ... 12.04.08 Federal Computer Week Six Tips for Server Consolidation Despite the years of buzz about the benefits of server virtualization, most agencies have only virtualized a small portion of their servers — or none at all. Learn more ... 12.02.08 eCampus News Jr. Colleges Outpace 4-year Schools in Tech Use Most community colleges cannot match the budgets and endowments that are typical of four-year colleges and universities. But that doesn't mean they are lagging in terms of educational technology? Learn more ...