07
Feb
2023
Pairing the Community and NET+ Services to Get Multi-Cloud Control
Multi-cloud is a fact of life for many in the higher education community. But that doesn’t mean all the challenges have been resolved, and many of you are at different points in your cloud journey. Members of our community have a common goal: how to manage, monitor, and maintain robust…
06
Feb
2023
Cloud Forum 23 Registration is Open
The Higher Education Cloud Forum takes place in Atlanta, May 10–12, 2023. The Cloud Forum is an annual gathering for higher education IT professionals to discuss the challenges, potential, and best practices for using hyper-scale computing tools and platforms to support enterprise computing, and academic research, as well as…
25
Jan
2023
Cloud Forum Shifts Location and Season, But Not Focus
The Cornell Cloud Forum began in 2015 and quickly became the leading gathering to discuss the strategic challenges and accomplishments of hyper-scale technologies in the academic research and education community. At the close of the Cloud Forum in 2021, forum creator and leader Sarah Christen asked Internet2 to assume leadership…
09
Jan
2023
NET+ Cloud Services: Most Stay for the Peer Community, Even if They Came for the Contracts …
Do you have your peers’ support and an advocate with cloud service providers? When we talked to professionals at long-time NET+ subscriber institutions, an overwhelming sentiment was, “We got involved due to the customized contracts and peer-vetted services, but we’re still involved because of the communities of practice for cloud-related…
03
Oct
2022
Kion Checks the Top Boxes
Internet2 Releases New NET+ Service The Internet2 NET+ team is excited to announce the release of NET+ Kion, one of the leading cloud enablement solution providers. In response to calls from the research and education community for account automation, cost management, and security monitoring tools for cloud enablement across AWS,…
24
Aug
2022
Get Your Game On! NET+ Hosts AWS Game Day at TechEX22
If you’re up for an engrossing, wild ride that’s outrageous fun, then you’re ready for AWS Game Day @ TechEX 2022. AWS Game Day is “collaborative learning exercise that tests skills in implementing AWS solutions to solve real-world problems in a gamified, risk-free environment.” Internet2…
22
Apr
2022
There Is a Lot of Cloud to Go Around
We are well into our second decade of higher education use of cloud computing. Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions are commonplace, and the sophistication and breadth of application of cloud infrastructure and tools have grown from single accounts with a few virtual machines to enterprise organizations embracing the public…