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Background Research is one of the key output of a research-based institution like CityU. It is playing not only an important role in raising the ranking and branding of the institution but also as a way to attract talented students and researchers to join the big family. Showcasing our excellent ...
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Wireless network (Wi-Fi) is now widely established and utilized at home, offices and everywhere in public areas such as rail stations, streets, and etc. This newsletter provides ...
As mentioned in the previous article (item 3 in Ref: Network Computing Issue 85 - September 2015), the first phase of desktop virtualization using Citrix Provisioning Service (PVS) had been implemented in selected teaching venues (a few lecture theatres, classrooms and CSC teaching studios) for ...
The CityU central web servers (www.cityu.edu.hk and www6.cityu.edu.hk) are load-balanced web farms, which provide high availability services to the communities. In case any server instance of a web farm is unavailable (due to errors or maintenance), other server instances of the same web farm can ...
The Policy Concept Windows policy, better known as Group Policy, is a feature of all Microsoft Windows operating systems (…Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10…) that controls the working environment and behaviour of a system. For example, a policy setting that allows or disallows remote access to ...
Massive Open Online Course, MOOC in short, has brought about a revolutionary change to how education can be delivered to learners worldwide. By definition, MOOC is a course with purposes to serve a massive number of distant learners simultaneously via online platforms. It brings a host of ...
/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ According to a study conducted by IBM in 2012, it costs an organization US$80 per defect if vulnerabilities are identified early during the development stage, but the cost ...
What are public, private and hybrid clouds? Public clouds are services based on the standard cloud computing technology to provide flexible and on-demand computing and network resources to the general public over the internet. A public cloud deployment model is different from a private network ...
The new school year has just commenced and the Computing Services Centre (CSC) would like to take this opportunity to introduce the Virtual Desktop Service (VDS) to new students and provide a brief update on the enhancements made on the VDS during the course of the year. The CSC had launched the ...
Some hardware and software in the CSC Teaching Studios have been upgraded this summer: PC Hardware Half of the CSC Teaching Studios, around 500 PCs, have been upgraded to newer hardware as described in the table below. By using the Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS), these PCs have been configured ...