12 Aug 2026 Cloud Is Maturing. The Community Is Too. By Bob Flynn 2026 Higher Education Cloud Forum Recap “Every year I walk away with at least one idea I wouldn’t have gotten anywhere else – not from a vendor, not from a conference keynote, but from a peer who’s already been through it.” Rob Larmon, Associate Director for Enterprise Platforms, University… Read More
20 May 2025 Internet2 NET+ Honors UMBC’s Jack Suess with the 2025 Cloud Superhero Award Estimated reading time: 4 minutes The Internet2 NET+ Program is pleased to announce that Jack Suess, vice president of information technology and chief information officer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), is the recipient of the 2025 Cloud Superhero… Read More
30 May 2024 Content, Connection, Continuation: Catch the Highlights From Cloud Forum 2024 By Bob Flynn Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Despite the lateness of the day, the suitcases lined up along the walls, the work and family duties calling, and minds exhausted from 2.5 days of stimulation from presentations, workshops, and discussion, the majority of Higher Education… Read More
01 Feb 2024 Registration Open for 10th Annual Higher Education Cloud Forum By Bob Flynn The new year is underway with renewed hope and energy. In a rapidly-evolving field like cloud computing, a vital portion of that energy goes toward CI/CD. Now, before you think you’ve stumbled into some DevOps post, I’m not talking about continuous integration and continuous delivery. For the higher ed… Read More
10 May 2023 In the Media: Internet2’s Sean O’Brien Speaks with EdTech About Multicloud Adoption, Best Practices Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Multicloud environments – and the challenges they pose – are common in the research and education community. EdTech: Focus on Higher Education recently interviewed Sean O’Brien, associate vice president for NET+ Cloud… Read More
06 Feb 2023 Cloud Forum 23 Registration is Open By Bob Flynn 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… Read More
21 Nov 2022 Internet2 NET+ Launches Cloud Superhero Award: Honors Erik Lundberg By Apryl Motley Estimated reading time: 3 minutes The higher education community convened at Washington University in Saint Louis to attend Cloud Forum 2022 from November 9–11. The Higher Education Cloud Forum is a gathering for higher education IT professionals to discuss the challenges,… Read More
22 Apr 2022 There Is a Lot of Cloud to Go Around By Bob Flynn 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… Read More