Campus Collaboration in the Cloud

Universities are increasingly engaging with cloud service providers and looking to the cloud for solutions to campus IT and collaboration challenges. In this session, we will present several manifestations of the community's engagement with cloud services: an overview of the Internet2 community's efforts and the strategies for developing and deploying cloud services for higher education they have developed; an examination of risk mitigation strategies institutions should consider when moving to the cloud; and an in-depth examination of how the University of Nebraska chose Box to fill their collaboration and mobile document storage needs. We will review the results of the community's collaboration on cloud service delivery, risk mitigation, and evolving standards on security, identity, accessibility, and others. We aim to engage participants to think through how they and their institutions can participate and become more knowledgeable about the risks and benefits associated with developing a cloud strategy in conjunction with their peers.

OUTCOMES: Gain access to a proven toolkit developed by universities for cloud readiness * Investigate cloud collaboration options and how they could fill needs on campus * Discover how to ensure solid cloud vendor contracts