IT Trends
An Electronic Newsletter for IT Professionals in Higher Ed
9/22/2016

Features

  • The 20-Year History Behind Internet2

    Internet2, the technology community devoted to advancing research and education, celebrates its 20th anniversary next month.

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  • Outsourcing IT in Higher Ed: A Necessary Evil?

    When an American company outsources work to an Indian firm, plenty of IT professionals bemoan how management is willing to bury middle-class jobs in pursuit of profits. But what if the organization doing the outsourcing is a public university?

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Research

  • Report: Education Now Most Targeted Sector for Ransomware

    Education has surpassed healthcare as the sector most targeted by ransomware, a variety of malware that makes data inaccessible to users until a ransom is paid.

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  • Higher Ed Cloud Adoption on the Rise

    Cloud investment is mostly expected to grow next year in higher education; 81 percent of IT leaders or professionals said their institutions would be increasing spending on cloud computing in 2017. Sixty percent said they're integrating cloud thinking into their IT strategies. But it will take a few more years before the majority of applications in colleges are running in the cloud. Today 39 percent of apps are cloud-based; by 2021 it could be closer to 62 percent. Those results came from a survey done among IT respondents who work in government or higher education by MeriTalk, a publishing company focused on government IT, on behalf of sponsors NetApp and Avnet, which are both technology providers.

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  • 73 Percent of Coding Bootcamp Graduates Employed Full-Time, Earn Salary Lift

    A recent survey of more than 1,000 qualified graduates from coding bootcamps around the country found that 73 percent are employed in full-time positions, with an average salary increase of 64 percent.

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  • Worldwide Public Cloud Services to Grow 17 Percent in 2016

    The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17.2 percent in 2016 to total $208.6 billion, up from $178 billion in 2015, according to recent reports by tech market research firm Gartner.

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