Vendor Selection

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Vendor Selection

Cloud Computing and the Power to Choose

June 10, 2010

© 2010 Rob Bristow, Ted Dodds, Richard Northam, and Leo Plugge EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 3 (May/June 2010): 14-31 Rob Bristow is Programme Manager for e-Administration, Joint In…

Hot Topic Discussion: Mobility, Telecommuting, and the Cloud

April 13, 2010 | A session at the Security 2010

ECAR's sixth Study of Undergraduate Students and IT reported that 29 percent of survey respondents use an Internet-capable handheld device daily, and faculty and staff also love them. Given th…

Toward a Product Evaluation Framework

March 7, 2010

This evaluation framework is offered not as a final model, but as a route by which people can think through and share some ideas around this goal. Conversation, disagreement, and dialogue about t…

Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing

December 18, 2009

Adopting cloud computing is a complex decision involving many factors. It is the Cloud Security Alliance hope that the guidance contained in this work will help others better understand what que…

Hope or Hype on the Cloud

November 5, 2009

At annual gathering of campus technology officials, debate continues over how much they should outsource and whom they should trust. At annual ga…

NFB: Google Apps Accessibility Not There Yet

January 13, 2012

This last October, I wrote about comments made by the National Federation of the Blind’s legal counsel, Dan Goldstein, indicating that Google appeared to be on track to resolve NFB concerns ab…

Provisioning Above-Campus IT Services: Supply and Demand

November 2, 2009

© 2009 Brad Wheeler and Shelton Waggener. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ). …

Use of Cloud Computing

August 31, 2009

This Indiana University position paper identifies some issues and risks involved in leveraging cloud computing services, and provides recommendations on their appropriate use. …

Obama Admin. Renews College Costs Focus

December 6, 2011

Today's Inside Higher Ed reports on the outcomes of yesterday's White House roundtable discussion with college and university presidents about ways to reduce college costs, def…

Environmental Scan: What Technology Tools Work (and Don't Work)?

June 16, 2009

Now that we have some idea of the use-case requirements and what functionality we need to address them, the group will review what's available in the open-source and vendor communities for sol…