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Preparing the Enterprise for the Cloud: Adoption Strategies, Balancing Stakeholders, and Satisfying Students

Friday, April 08, 2016 | 9:30AM–11:30AM | Concerto A
Session Type: Professional Development
Over the past few years, Internet2 member universities have worked together to develop strategies for developing and deploying cloud services for the research and education community under the auspices of the Internet2 NET+ Program. This session presents an opportunity to learn from those efforts and others in order to prepare your staff and systems for students that have never known academic life without a laptop or tablet. Students, along with an increasing number of other users on campus, are increasingly accustomed to consumer cloud offerings. Even with a strong IT governance process, the final decision of which solution to purchase is seldom clear cut. No single stakeholder holds all of the information necessary to make the best choice for the institution. In addition to discussing the high level strategic issues related to cloud services, this session will enable you to play a key stakeholder deciding which of the cloud storage offerings from Google, Microsoft, Dropbox and Box is right for your institution. Come challenge your assumptions!


OUTCOMES: Understand how universities have implemented cloud services * Learn how to evolve resources to better engage the Cloud Kids * Understand the complexity of something as simple as storage

Presenters

  • Bob Flynn

    Program Manager, Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services, Internet2

  • Andrew Keating

    CEO, Popcorn RFP, Inc