The Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) held a two-day IT for research and cybersecurity workshop at the Ministers Hall on the Claflin University campus in Orangeburg, S.C.

This virtual course was designed for cloud computing beginners looking to facilitate or develop cloud research workflows. CLASS Essentials for GCP was a virtual, four-hour, hands-on learning experience.

This virtual course was  designed for cloud computing beginners looking to facilitate or develop cloud research workflows. CLASS Essentials for Microsoft Azure was a virtual, four-hour, hands-on learning experience.

This discussion covered  common challenges in implementing learner or researcher credentials using new technologies, including differences and similarities between the U.S. and Europe; the next steps that the R&E community needs to take to prepare for this future direction, how existing academic federations fit into this space, and what colleges and universities can do to begin preparing for this future.

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What is “Cyberinfrastructure,” and who needs it? In this presentation, we introduced Cyberinfrastructure (CI) as IT resources and support for data-intensive research and education activities. We also discussed the variety of stakeholders – on-campus and beyond – who benefit from campus CI capabilities and are important to consider when constructing a campus CI Plan. Learn more about the Minority Serving-Cyberinfrastructure Consortium.

This virtual course was designed for cloud computing beginners looking to facilitate or develop research workflows on the cloud.

Grouper simplifies access management by automating changes to access privileges as a person’s role changes. This training workshop focused on learning and using core features of the InCommon Trusted Access Platform packaged Grouper software to implement the access control models described in the Grouper Deployment Guide. The sessions included a mix of self-paced learning, lectures, hands-on training, and discussion. The modules started with Grouper basics and progress through new features, access governance, security model, and administration.

Kion and Internet2 brought together two universities in our March 1 webinar, Achieving Multi-Cloud Control and the Freedom to Innovate. We discussed the people, practices, planning, and tooling they’re using to manage their multi-cloud implementations and enable their teams to get work done.

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Please join members of the Internet2 executive team and Internet2 consultant Ron Kraemer for one of two virtual town hall meetings on February 22 or February 23 from 3 pm – 4 pm ET to hear updates and progress on the Internet2 Five-Year Roadmap process. 

Registration is required and you will receive Zoom credentials once you complete your registration. Learn more about the town halls.

Shibboleth provides single sign-on capabilities for local, distributed, and cloud services. This virtual workshop focused on the InCommon Trusted Access Platform packaged software — including configuration and operation. Both the Identity and Service Provider packages can be pre-configured to integrate out of the box with the InCommon Federation using recommended defaults.

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Long-time users of Grouper, the IAM team at University of Wisconsin–Madison, played a key role in the university’s Interoperability Transformation Initiative, which aimed to modernize the ways people connect while managing digital infrastructure and services at pace and scale. One of its key outcomes was moving Grouper from on prem to hosting it in AWS. Now the team is in the process of implementing midPoint as a mechanism for offering campus stakeholders central provisioning and deprovisioning options and infrastructure. Additionally, the team has engaged in policy development to define standard populations for their campus constituents. Members of the UW–Madison IAM team will join us for IAM Online where they will share the strategy and methodology behind their work, including:

• Moving Grouper from on prem to the cloud
• Implementing midPoint for provisioning and deprovisioning
• Standardizing populations and migrating services to use new standards

What aspects of the team’s approach might be applicable to your institution? Learn more and bring your questions.

Moderator:

Erik Coleman, IAM Architect, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

Speakers:

• Abrianna Barca, Associate Director, Identity and Access Management
• Ryan Larscheidt, IAM Technical Lead,
• Andrew Parmer,  IAM Technical Lead
• Oakes Dobson, IAM Engineer

Amazon Omics helps healthcare and life science organizations and their software partners store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data and then generate insights from that data to improve health and advance scientific discoveries.

Learn how Amazon Omics provides scalable workflows and integrated tools for preparing and analyzing omics data and automatically provisions and scales the underlying infrastructure so that you can spend more time on research and innovation. Amazon Omics supports large-scale analysis and collaborative research.

This session is for research decision-makers, researchers, and RCD team members who want to learn how Amazon Omics can accelerate research, support large-scale analysis, and generate insights to improve health and advance scientific discoveries.

Speaker: Lee Pang, Principal Solutions Architect – Health AI, AWS

Google, Internet2, and Carahsoft gave a presentation on a variety of strategies that can help your institution reduce costs while using Google Cloud Platform (GCP). They provided insights into how using the latest cloud solutions can help your institution to cost-effectively support individual projects, for research or enterprise, or across all of campus.

Featured Speakers: 

Flora Huang, team lead, customer engineer, Google Cloud

Bob Flynn, program manager, Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services, Internet2

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We kicked off our 2023 IAM Online webinar series with an hour of insights from InCommon Catalysts. Participants heard their expert analysis of how current trends in identity and access management will play out in the year ahead as well as their forecast for what’s next.

The 2022 Internet2 Technology Exchange was held from December 5-9 in Denver, Colo.