The Small School District Association (SSDA) has announced a strategic partnership with educational publisher CTB-McGraw Hill to bring the formative assessment suite Acuity to small districts throughout California at a reduced price.

IBM rolled out a free toolkit to help IT pros migrate their infrastructure to IBM products and use Microsoft’s virtualization technology to consolidate servers.

Less than a year after launching its Sun Storage 7000 family of products, Sun Microsystems has revamped both the hardware and software in the line to boost performance and to introduce some storage industry firsts, including triple RAID, triple mirroring, and channel migration.

Security professionals who want to protect security budgets during the downturn need to better align their operations with overall business goals, Gartner said last week. That includes treating users as customers and not as obstacles in the race to implement new security technologies.

Two schools in North Carolina–South Granville High and Scotland High–have joined a statewide initiative to help bring graduation rates to 100 percent.