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Compaq Armada for IIIT-B students

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BANGALORE, September 9 : Compaq India has announced that the Indian

Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (iiit-b) has selected Compaq

Armada Portable Computers for its students. Every student enrolling in the

iiit-b Post Graduate Program in Information Technology starting in

September 1999 will be provided with a Compaq Armada Portable Computer for

the duration of the course. All staff of iiit-b will also use Compaq

Armada Portables. In addition, iiit-b will also install three Compaq

ProLiant 3000 Servers and one Compaq AlphaServer DS10 as their central

computing resource.

All students will now be able to study and work on-line throughout the

duration of the 15-month program at iiit-b. Since each system is provided

with a modem, they will be able to log-in to the institute from home as

well. This will aid not only learning, but also Student Faculty

interaction, and make it possible to implement a new way of teaching the

subject. This facility has been made possible through a special

grant-in-aid of Rs 67 Lakh from Compaq, as part of the industry

sponsorship of iiit-b.

Using Compaq's industry leading Intelligent Manageability tools, iiit-b

will be able to track and manage the assets of all the Compaq Armadas

deployed from a single point. The Compaq Armada Portables PC's each have a

built-in modem for connectivity and drive-lock features for asset

protection. Each student will use a Compaq Armada 1500, while the faculty

will be equipped with Compaq Armada 1750 portable PCs. 3 Compaq ProLiant

3000 Servers and one Compaq AlphaServer DS10 will power the network. All

the resources in iiit-b can be managed by a single IT Manager.

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