Cloud Services

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Cloud Services

Engage, Inspire, and Enable: Getting to Know Desire2Learn

January 17, 2013 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference

Desire2Learn is transforming the teaching and learning experience by engaging, inspiring, and enabling people to achieve their potential through innovative e-learning products and solutions. Duri…

Managing Your Resources in the Community Cloud

March 26, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2012

Leveraging cloud-based resources enables an organization to adapt to the rapidly changing economic and technological environment with speed, simplicity, and efficiency while reducing the total cost…

Leverage the Cloud + Leverage In-House + Improve Security = Save Money

January 11, 2012 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012

The University of Maryland in Baltimore had to replace its in-house student e-mail system. Our students wanted Google. We had concerns with security as well as compliance requirements such as HIPAA…

CUMULUS Disaster Recovery Delivered from the Cloud

March 30, 2011 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2011

Disaster recovery planning involves planning for what is acceptable in terms of data loss and service availability, then establishing processes to deliver those expectations and testing those proce…

Leaping into the Clouds: Different Philosophies and Approaches to Hosted E-Mail and Collaborative Software Solutions

January 12, 2011 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2011

With IT departments experiencing severe cuts in staffing and technology resources, tough fiscal decisions had to be made to achieve a balanced budget while still maintaining a certain level of serv…