Navigating the Clouds with an Enterprise IT Strategy

Should your institution be a cloud services leader? How do you balance the risks of innovation with the possible benefits? What about managing identity in the cloud? Furman University's IT Strategic Plan is guiding an aggressive move to cloud services. This session will look at lessons learned, opportunities, and challenges ahead. An enterprise IT strategy can guide strategic innovations using cloud services for your institution. We will discuss the forces that drove us at Furman University to pursue cloud solutions and cloud service models, as well as how identity management tied everything together. The lessons we've learned can help your institution's planning efforts for cloud services.