Cloud Services

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Cloud Services

2013 Planning Guide for Application Delivery Strategies: Mobile, Cloud, Social, and Information

January 28, 2013

Gartner's 2013 planning guide for application delivery teams outlines trends in mobile, cloud, social, and information initiatives and provides guidance on how to design, develop, and …

Google Apps for Education: A Not-So-Simple Decision

February 14, 2013 | A session at the West/Southwest Regional Conference

Although many higher education institutions have moved to Google Apps for Education (GAE), Rice has not been as quick to act. The processes and decisions behind our approach to migrating our unde…

Feel Free to Roam about the Cloud with Amazon Web Services!

May 17, 2012 | A session at the Enterprise IT Leadership Conference 2012

Education IT leaders are challenged to accomplish their missions with increasingly constrained budgets and human resources. The Amazon Web Services Cloud provides the products that organizations …

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…

Femke Morsch

Product Manager

SURFnet BV

Utrecht

NETHERLANDS

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…

Guide to Cloud Computing for Policymakers

July 26, 2011

This SIIA  white paper provides a roadmap for fostering the development of the cloud and harnessing its full economic potential. This SIIA  w…

Cloud Services: Policy and Assessment

July 21, 2011

David Escalante is Director of Computer Policy & Security at Boston College. Andrew J. Korty ( ajk@iu.edu ) is Deputy Information Security Officer at Indiana University. Commen…

Using Technology Dollars Wisely

June 24, 2011

Key Takeaways With technology costs a growing part of campus budgets, how can campus leaders know they are spending wisely on technology? To avoid overstaffing to meet p…

Alternative Sourcing Strategies at Menlo College

June 24, 2011

Alternative Sourcing Strategies at Menlo College By Raechelle Clemmons As part of revitalizing itself as a Silicon Valley business school, Menlo College tackled its unsatisfa…