Before the inception of Banner - our University ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) can only provide operational and transactional data regarding the efficiency of its services. Now armed with vast organizational business intelligence data derived from ...

From Telephone to Video Conference Since its invention in 1876, no other means of communication has revolutionized people's daily lives more than the telephone. In fact, the communication technology is gradually migrating from analog to digital, and the digital technology makes it possible for ...

Staff members and students may or may not be aware that the University’s data network is currently undergoing a major upgrade process. The upgrade consists of two phases. The first phase was actually started early this year and it has almost come to completion. The second phase will take place near ...

Background In view that the Internet had rapidly become an unrestricted and uncontrolled source of content other than educational information, the Information Services Advisory Committee (ISAC) chaired by VP (Planning & Information Services) saw the need to filter some categories of websites in 1998 ...

The way that the Web is being used nowadays has changed tremendously over the years. Instead of merely browsing the Internet, people are now participating and jointly creating and publishing content. In other words, while initially content was mostly "read" from the Web, content is now more and more ...

In accordance with our initial deployment plan ( Ref.: Network Computing Issue 51 - March 2007), we have added the Windows Vista to more than 1,000 desktop computers which are located in the CSC Teaching Studios, Library’s Information Space, Lecture Theatres and Classrooms before Semester A ...

In the past, IT policies and regulations were developed in a relatively piece-meal manner, and established as and when the need arose. The Committee on Information Services and Technology, at its meeting in December 2006, agreed to formulate a comprehensive and structured set of regulations on IT ...

Introduction In the past, security measures were often focused on the system level (which included networks, operating systems, web servers, and database servers). People may think their websites are safe from hackers if they have a "perfectly" secured system. This may be true if their websites ...

The Hong Kong SAR Government has recently enacted The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance (UEMO). Phase I of the Ordinance commenced operation on 1 June 2007, and Phase II will come into effect on a date to be decided and notified by Gazette, probably towards the end of 2007. The CIO wrote to ...

The Blackboard (Bb) Academic Suite has been deployed in the university since July 2005. The Sun Solaris/Oracle DBMS based production system is supported by four application servers via a load-balancer and an additional application server is used for virtual classroom. These application servers work ...