Cloud Computing & SaaS


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Kishwaukee College Moves to Ellucian Colleague SaaS

Illinois's Kishwaukee College is modernizing its administrative systems with an Ellucian Colleague SaaS rollout that will bring AI-powered tools to human resources, finance, and student management.

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Report: 85% of Organizations Are Using Some Form of AI

Eighty-five percent of organizations today are leveraging some form of AI, according to the latest State of AI in the Cloud 2025 report from Wiz. While AI's role in innovation and disruption continues to expand, security vulnerabilities and governance challenges remain pressing concerns.

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Snowflake Launches Program to Upskill 100,000 People in Data and AI

Cloud data platform Snowflake is embarking on an effort to train and certify more than 100,000 users on its AI Data Cloud by 2027. The One Million Minds + One Platform program will provide Snowflake-delivered courses, training materials, and free access to Snowflake software, at no cost to learners.

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Internet2 Kicks Off 2025 with a Major Cloud Scorecard Update

The latest release on Internet2's Cloud Scorecard Finder website previews new features that include dynamic selection criteria and options to explore multiple solutions side-by-side. More updates are planned in the new year.

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Data Integration Market: Cloud Giants Down, AI Up

"By 2027, AI assistants and AI-enhanced workflows incorporated into data integration tools will reduce manual intervention by 60 percent and enable self-service data management," according to research firm Gartner.

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Report: Cloud Certifications Bring Biggest Salary Payoff

It pays to be conversant in cloud, according to a new study from Skillsoft The company's annual IT skills and salary survey report found that the top three certifications resulting in the highest payoffs salarywise are for skills in the cloud, specifically related to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Nutanix.

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Okta, OpenID Foundation Propose New Identity Security Standard

Okta and the OpenID Foundation have announced the formation of the IPSIE Working Group — with the acronym standing for Interoperability Profiling for Secure Identity in the Enterprise — dedicated to a new identity security standard for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.

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Scalable Cloud Strategies: Values for Higher Education

From a massive, 23-campus cloud-and-security transformation, to a small college's "lift and shift" entry into the public cloud, Unisys Higher Education Strategist Christopher Wessells knows how higher education leverages the cloud. Here, he examines some of the values scalable cloud strategies offer our institutions.

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Are Organizations Moving from Cloud to On-Premises? AWS Says Yes; Gartner Says It's Not Widespread

Is there a widespread backlash to cloud computing that sees organizations moving their IT operations back to on-premises data centers? The longstanding debate over that very question was rekindled by recent comments from AWS about cloud repatriation among its customer base.

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U.S. Department of Commerce Proposes Mandatory Reporting Requirement for AI, Cloud Providers

This proposed rule from the department's Bureau of Industry and Security aims to enhance national security by establishing reporting requirements for the development of advanced AI models and computing clusters.