21
Nov
2023
NET+ Infrastructure and Platform Services (IPS) Portfolio Update
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes It’s a clear, calm, sunny day as I write this, but all around me I see cloud. There is amazing work going on all around the research and education (R & E) cloud community, and Internet2 is honored…
08
Jun
2023
Cloud Forum 2023 Serves Up Another Full-Bodied Cloud Discussion
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Since its inception, the Higher Education (née Cornell) Cloud Forum has been the conclave where college (and university) cognoscenti convene to contribute concepts calculated to craft the course of cloud computing in our community. That custom continued…
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 …
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 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,…
03
Oct
2022
Kion Checks the Top Boxes
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes 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…
24
Aug
2022
Get Your Game On! NET+ Hosts AWS Game Day at TechEX22
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 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…
22
Apr
2022
There Is a Lot of Cloud to Go Around
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes 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…