22 Nov 2021 Industry Lightning Lounge Recap: University of Montana’s Autonomous Aerial Systems Office Uses Oracle Cloud to Put Out the Fire By Mary Olson, Strategic Program Lead, Oracle Education & Research Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Although my background is in higher education technology, I had to quickly develop some fast-talking auctioneer skills as a guest participant in the Sept. 30, 2021, Internet2 Industry Lightning Lounge seminar. (Watch the… Read More
19 Nov 2021 Advanced Networking Automation and Orchestration No Longer a ‘Nice to Have’ for Internet2’s Next Generation Infrastructure By Amber Rasche Estimated reading time: 11 minutes Chris Wilkinson and Karl Newell Chris Wilkinson is the network services director of planning and architecture at Internet2, and Karl Newell is the network software architect at Internet2. In this Q&A, Chris and Karl discuss how software-driven automation… Read More
17 Nov 2021 InCommon Grab Your Popcorn! Select CAMP Week Videos Now Available Through IAM Online By Netta Caligari, InCommon Community Success Manager Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Ready for an IAM movie night? InCommon + GÉANT’s 2021 CAMP Week is all wrapped up, but the party’s still going! To allow the broader community access to some of the incredibly insightful content from our virtual conference,… Read More
15 Nov 2021 In The Media Cloud In the Media: Internet2 NET+ Cloud Storage Working Group, ‘When Unlimited Hits Its Limits’ Estimated reading time: 2 minutes The era of free, unlimited cloud storage is coming to a close. To solve the challenges associated with this shift and continue to meet the needs of their institutions, higher education IT leaders are coming together to share… Read More
15 Nov 2021 InCommon News from the Grouper Project By Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Grouper Project Estimated reading time: 4 minutes We’re excited to share recent developments in the Grouper project. Grouper is an enterprise group and access management system that simplifies access management by letting you use the same group or role in many… Read More
12 Nov 2021 InCommon Our Leadership Community is Expanding! Advisory Committees Nominations Under Review for 2022 By Netta Caligari, InCommon Community Success Manager Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Engagement is the foundation of how we operate at InCommon. We appreciate the variety of ways our community comes together to develop best practices; guide the adoption of new technologies, and identify challenges to help resolve common issues… Read More
12 Nov 2021 InCommon The Time to Meet InCommon Baseline Expectations 2 Requirements is Fast Approaching By David St. Pierre Bantz, University of Alaska / InCommon Community Trust & Assurance Board, and Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Service Manager Estimated reading time: 1 minute InCommon Participants established the InCommon Baseline Expectations for Trust in Federation in 2018 as a means to increase trust and interoperability among InCommon federation participants and to define what they expect of each other, and of InCommon Operations. Read More
12 Nov 2021 InCommon InCommon Members Support NIH Security Measures By Tom Barton, Internet2 Research Engagement Estimated reading time: 3 minutes In the Fall of 2020, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that they were making changes to increase the security of many of their services to better protect the sensitive data shared with researchers. Among those are… Read More
11 Nov 2021 InCommon 4 Tips on How to Up Your IAM Game Using COmanage and the InCommon Trusted Access Platform By Laura Paglione, Partner at Spherical Cow Group Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Laura Paglione is a partner at Spherical Cow Group (SCG), the open-source lead of the COmanage project, and an InCommon Catalyst. Laura leads COmanage workshops through… Read More
10 Nov 2021 Cloud Internet2 NET+ Quarterly Update: Fall 2021 By Tara Gyenis, Internet2 NET+ Program Development Manager Estimated reading time: 4 minutes NET+ Turns 10! The Internet2 NET+ Program has had many accomplishments to be proud of in the past 10 years, as the community came together to address challenges in adopting cloud services. With the rapidly expanding cloud service… Read More