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Tuesday, January 14, 2003   Volume 3, Issue 14  
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Hardware Strategies For Improving Database Performance
December Facilities Newsletter Now Available
Technology Tidbits
Microsoft Windows News
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Hardware Strategies For Improving Database Performance

As application loads grow and data storage needs expand, computer systems managers increasingly face performance degradation, especially when the application performance is dependent on disk drive I/O. The strategies available to the system manager are several, including hand-tuning the application or adding more expensive processing hardware. Seek Systems has offered a 4-page paper on how intelligent caching in the storage array can generate significant gains in performance without any user intervention. www.seeksystems.com/products/oracle_app_whitepaper.pdf


 
December Facilities Newsletter Now Available
Volume Purchasing, Calif. Bond Acts, and FUSION Updates

The latest issue of the Facilities Programs newsletter is available at http://www.facilitybuys.org/documents/news_5.pdf.

It contains updates on the program for volume purchases of facility and construction equipment and materials—including an introduction to Victoria Lamica, Facilities Programs Director, and a call for advisory board members and bid team experts—as well as on more than $22 billion in bonds passed November 5 to fund facilities in California, and on FUSION (Facility Utilization Space Inventory Options Net).
 

 
Technology Tidbits
News on Educational Technology and the Internet
by Judy Brown

Brief summaries with links to full stories on e-learning standards, educational applications of technology, high tech news, and the Internet.
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Microsoft Windows News
Items from Windows Platform Newsletter

Brief summaries and links to full stories of interest to collegebuys.org members from the insider’s guide to the Microsoft Windows family of products.
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