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Nov
2022
By Apryl Motley
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, potential, and best practices for using hyper-scale computing tools and platforms to support…
08
Nov
2022
By Damian Doyle
Damian Doyle We are just a month away from the 2022 Internet2 Technology Exchange (TechEX) the first in-person technical meeting Internet2 has held in a few years. I worked with my fellow track chairs Kari Robertson (UCOP) and James Monek (Lehigh), Internet2 staff member Bob Flynn, and community volunteers…
17
Oct
2022
By Nick Lewis
Hopefully, everyone made it through the start of the fall semester! I’ve talked with people on campuses and know everyone is moving as fast as they possibly can to keep up with all that’s happening and changing! I’ve also attended community events in-person during the last six months and observed…
26
Sep
2022
By Amber Rasche
Key Perspectives From Community Cloud Experts Despite the growing prevalence of new cloud services at higher ed institutions large and small, opportunities remain to smooth out the path for procuring and deploying them. In reality, many obstacles persist for the procurement and enterprise IT staff who are at the helm…
07
Sep
2022
By Sean O’Brien
Have you seen our new front door? We’ve engaged with stakeholders to revisit, clarify, and repackage the reasons why Internet2 members and participants find the NET+ Program so useful and how research and education institutions benefit when adopting Cloud Services through NET+. Much has changed in the past 10 years…
15
Aug
2022
By Sean O’Brien
How can cloud services work well for higher ed and research and education (R&E) institutions? That’s really the point of the new NET+ Guide. It’s designed to be a quick reference for you and your colleagues as you consider cloud services. Great…
14
Jul
2022
By Apryl Motley
According to Stony Brook researchers Nick Nikiforakis and Babak Amin Azad, research and education institutions can defend against phishing attacks that leverage man-in-the-middle (MITM) phishing toolkits acting as malicious reverse proxy servers of online services. Last month during a NET+ I2 Online webinar, “Mitigating MITM Phishing Toolkit Attacks that…
06
Jul
2022
By Sean O’Brien
Internet2 NET+ and Other Cloud Program Updates At Your Service It’s officially summer. We’re just three weeks into what meteorologists at the Old Farmer’s Almanac predict will be a summer of hotter than normal temperatures across most of the country. The weather isn’t the only thing heating up. Worldwide public…
05
Jul
2022
By Apryl Motley
IT professionals working in the research and education community have no shortage of priorities on their very full plates. And it stands to reason that they cannot be all things to all people at all times. Or does it? Stakeholders across the enterprise on your campus aren’t always reasonable. How…
24
Jun
2022
By Oren Sreebny, Senior Cloud Consultant, Internet2 In fall 2021, Internet2 and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) co-sponsored two Executive Roundtables discussing issues around cloud storage in the research and education community. In preparation for these conversations, I prepared two briefing papers to provide an overview of the topics…
