Ravi Blogs about IT Topics

I feel pretty bad for not having written any blog posts for almost two months. It has really been a pretty busy couple of months, but that is not an excuse. I need to get back to writing my blog posts on a regular basis. Though I do not believe in setting a regular schedule [...]

I read recently President Roth’s most recent post titled “Universities in Crisis? From Compartmentalization to Collaboration“, which discusses Mark Taylor’s Op-Ed in New York Times titled “End the University as We Know It“. Both are very interesting and thought provoking.
As I was reading these, I was reminded of conversations that I have had with some [...]

I just realized that because I have been so busy for the past several weeks that I had not written anything in the blog. So, it is time to write. Since I have not had time to think about one topic to write about, I will simply write about a few thoughts that are currently [...]

On Monday, 3/17/09, I had gone to the Legislative Office Building in the Capitol area of Hartford, CT to testify on behalf of the Network Infrastructure and Services Advisory Council that I chair to recommend that the state retain the Commission for Education Technology (CET). I have attached my written testimony below. Basically, Governor Jody [...]

I was at the NERCOMP Annual conference last couple of days where I participated in one of the lightning rounds on Web 2.0 (talking about our YouTube experience) and a poster session on the same subject. My presentation was well received and there were many visitors to our table during the poster session with a [...]

As many of you know, I am a big fan of Jott. I know that many users of Jott were not happy that recently they began charging for several of the useful services. I found it to be so useful that I singed up for their $3.95 a month service and have been using many [...]

I discussed some the late night network bandwidth issue in detail in one of my recent posting to this blog. One of the items that I discussed there was a proposal to CEN to purchase additional bandwidth at night. This posting is to let you know that we will be piloting a variable bandwidth strategy [...]

Since the time I read the book Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres and then re-read Freakanomics by Steven Levitt I have been energized by the notion that there is so much data that is available already or can be collected to help guide many of the decisions. Many of our technology decisions tend to be [...]

Many of us have heard from both Michael and John about the current state of University budget and I sure hope any questions that you all had have been answered through the opportunities we had to ask questions. Bottom line – we have problems like every one else, but the senior administration (in consultation with [...]

This question came up in the Manager’s meeting from Jolee. It is a good question and I began thinking more about this…
I wrote about Cloud Computing last October in this blog – click here to read it. I have become a fan of this concept and feel that this has a lot of potential if [...]