ASI National Training Conference

Source: ASI Marketing - 30 August 2010

The ASI National training Conference held end of August was successfully supported by leading industry vendors. Major sponsors were BROCADE, APC (DPSA) and Microsoft.

Over 55 staff sales and pre-sales engineers attended two days intensive training at Newport, NSW. The Conference theme was based on Cloud Computing – “Selling Blue Skies in Cloudy Times”.

The “ASSIST” ASI Technical Services offerings have now been extended to include Video-Conferencing.

Introducing the Promethean ICT Scholarship

Source: Digital Classroom - 30 July 2010

As part of Promethean’s commitment to teacher education and development, we have partnered with Charles Sturt University to offer scholarships for the Graduate Certificate of ICT Education.

Teachers with a Promethean Scholarship will have the first subject of this course provided for free.

There are two Promethean Scholarships available for Session 3, 2010 intake. Applications must be submitted by 1st October 2010.

To find out the details, please go to: www.ictteachers.info/promethean.html 

Crimtrac moves to green data centre

Source: Government Technology Review - June/July - Issue 1


The Federal Government's desire for green, consolidated data centres has started to bear fruit as Crimtrac, an agency chaged with developing technology to assist police with information needed to solve crimes, moved one of its two hubs into a facility operated by Canberra Data Centre.

Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor opened the centre in late May, and said it consumes half the power of the agency's previous facility, will achieve significant water savings and requires half the floorspace of its predecessor. Scalability is another feature, as the centre has been designed to meet law enforcement bodies' future requirements.

The new facility will serve as one of Crimtrac's two data hubs, each of which will be ised to store DNA, fingerprint records and the Australian National Child Offender Register. Data will be replicated between the two hubs.

As one would expect, given the sensitivity of the material on-site, security is at a premium. The data centre in which Crimtrac's equipment will be housed has achieved T4 security certification and will also be subject to random checks by ASIO.

View and dowload the article in PDF format: Crimtrac moves to green data centre.

Promethean ActivExpression, ActiVote and ActiView Special

Source: ASI Solutions - July 7th, 2010

Promethean's ActivExpression, ActiVote and ActiView specials have been extended to 30 September 2010.

These technologies allow for improved collaboration and interaction between student and teacher or audience and presenter.

For details on these amazing products, please visit Digital Classroom.