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CityU was conferred two Gold Awards at the first Web Accessibility Recognition Scheme Awards Presentation Ceremony on 15 April in recognition of its effort to undertake social responsibilities to make websites more friendly for all users.

 

In order to cope with the ever increasing demands for Internet bandwidth of HARNET (Hong Kong Academic & Research Network) member institutions, especially in anticipation of new demands due to increased number of students arising from the 3-3-4 curriculum reform, a series of upgrades were carried out on HARNET last year. Apart from increasing the bandwidth of the various Internet links, the central routers were also upgraded as their hardware throughput could no longer sustain the increased bandwidths.

 

The CityUWiki was first introduced in June 2008. It is a document management and collaboration platform based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The usage of CityUWiki grew from 10 sites initially to over 100 sites as of today. It supports various departments, committees and project teams for closed-group collaboration. Recently, Microsoft released the new version of SharePoint - SharePoint 2013. In this release, many improved features and interfaces have been added to facilitate mobile devices usage.

 

Newly released in January this year, Microsoft Office 2013 is the latest version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite designed to make creating, editing, reading and sharing documents easier and quicker. It is a cloud-based product that is closely integrated with SkyDrive, a free cloud storage service offered by Microsoft. It includes many changes and new features such as user interface enhancements with the introduction of support for Touch.

CityU’s CIO has received the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders award for initiating innovative development in information technology at the University.

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ 

 


Virtual machines are the containers in which guest operating systems and their applications run. In best practise, all virtual machines are isolated from one another. Virtual machine isolation is imperceptible to the guest operating system.

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ 

 


The virtual networking layer consists of the virtual network devices through which virtual machines and the Service Console interface with the rest of the network. VM Server such as ESX Server relies on the virtual networking layer to support communications between virtual machines and the users.

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ 

 

All configuration tasks for the VM Server are performed through the Service Console, including configuring storage, controlling aspects of virtual machine behaviour, and setting up virtual switches or virtual networks. A privileged user logged in to the Service Console has the ability to modify, shut down, or even destroy virtual machines on that host.

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */A virtualisation infrastructure represents an additional architectural layer which can suffer from security vulnerabilities and be the target of attacks.

The CityU Search was powered by the public Google Search (a service hosted by Google) since 2005. After Google announced the availability of their enterprise solution for Asia-Pacific region in late 2009, the Google Search was replaced by the Google Search Appliance (a CityU locally hosted service) in Sep 2010. This locally hosted search engine provides end users with instant results on the most current web pages stored in all web sites within the cityu.edu.hk domain that are chainable from the CityU Homepage.