Two long-time Internet2 institutional members will be taking advantage of a NET+ cloud offering introduced last year by Blackboard.
Purdue University, Jacksonville State University and the University of Central Florida have signed on with Libris by PhotoShelter, a cloud-based system for organizing, collaborating and sharing visual assets.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has updated its cloud storage service, the SDSC Cloud, to support science-based researchers with large data requirements.
The on-going challenge of figuring out how to store and share the data generated in research projects will receive $4.9 million worth of attention in a project undertaken at four institutions.
England's University of Oxford now has a single cloud-based service desk supporting 30,000 users, 100 departments and 38 colleges.
Arizona State University has agreed to use a cloud storage provider as its primary secure collaboration platform throughout all of the university's campuses and academic activities.
What if your university sent more than 50 million e-mails to its 20,000-plus registered students? How could your students keep up? At Ball State University, developers are piloting Campus Hub, a new service to help students identify and act on the most important messages from their institution.
Ohio University's Residential Housing Department has migrated its student housing system from the campus to the cloud, making it easier for the department to control its own system updates while providing students with an improved user interface.
IBM is promoting its Bluemix cloud platform in multiple ways among academics and trainers. That includes development of cloud curricula, skills training for women returning to work and summer camps for high school girls.
A new Web-based learning management system allows for teaching and interactive presentations to be delivered online with an emphasis on assessment.