What can university decision-makers do to resolve potential issues and move forward with a successful digital strategy? Check out five these I.T. trends to help identify the trends that will impact the daily operations of your university.

Internet2 is pleased to announce that its production Cloud Connect service will be available as a part of our service offerings, at no additional fee.

Learn about a new program to establish and support a network of fellows. The program will select a small cohort of the research or research support community and empower them with basic cybersecurity knowledge and an understanding of Trusted CI services. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, March 13.

We look forward to welcoming our international partners and colleagues in Washington, D.C. next week. Learn about a new program feature making its debut!

Learn more about how we are working on a solution to increase capacity to meet expanding campus research needs.

A recap of collaborative projects by EDUCAUSE, Internet2, and REN-ISAC from 2018 and a reminder of an upcoming presentation at the 2019 Internet2 Global Summit on March 7 that will provide an update from the HECVAT working group.

Our community has made great progress with the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) program to deliver value to our campus and regional members. Review some of the NGI highlights as we approach Global Summit 2019. 

This 2019 Global Summit session on March 6 will address how a GÉANT team implemented industry best practices for the trust and identity services lifecycle management for the European and global research and education communities.

2019 Global Summit attendees have the opportunity to see a demo of the Cloud Connect Portal. Learn more about it, and we hope to see you there!

For many researchers, sharing and accessing data across institutions and geographic boundaries is critical to their collaboration, and cybersecurity in the name of compliance and confidentiality seems a burden without benefit. Join this panel of information security experts at the 2019 Global Summit on March 8 as they share pointers to resources and helpful means of engaging with researchers to build collaboration around securing research. 

To continue to expand capacity and resiliency to critical cloud and commercial peers, Internet2 has recently upgraded capacity in Chicago and Sunnyvale.

Thanks to a recent partnership, a group of researchers from higher education, the federal government, and industry collaborated on a project to help describe a standardized communication method for researchers performing high-throughput sequencing called BioCompute.

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is growing in adoption among the national and international research and education communities. A session at the 2019 Global Summit will look at two integrations using MFA. Indiana University will share its experience integrating single sign-on and two-factor authentication with Salesforce, and the Brazil National Research and Education Network will share an open source solution based on the REFEDS MFA profile for Shibboleth Identity Provider.

This 2019 Global Summit session will delve into the broader topic of IT security challenges, but will more specifically illuminate the value of peer assessments. Join this panel of CIOs and Mark Bruhn of the REN-ISAC for this session on March 8 at 8:45 a.m., and come prepared with any questions you may have as they hope to have a lively, engaged audience discussion!

NET+ AWS subscribers cloud usage has propelled the NET+ AWS program to its next tier of discounting. Read about this and other new exciting program developments.

In January of 2019, 40 community members and seven Internet2 staff began the process of analyzing and updating the service models that will connect the new capabilities being introduced to the community’s R&E networks into updated equitable fee models. Learn more.

Now more than ever, cloud-based contact centers are designed for students and families immersed in a technology-rich environment—with the omnichannel experience becoming the norm. Here are four considerations you should consider before selecting a platform and a provider.

Find out who is joining InCommon governing and advisory groups, and which dedicated members are rolling off.

"The Perfect Storm," a book published in 1997, told the story of a confluence of events that led to a fishing boat caught in 100-foot waves in the Atlantic (for you physics geeks, there are really good passages about how freak waves behave). Since then, that phrase has entered the lexicon to describe things from Hurricane Sandy to why a hipster couldn’t make his date on Saturday night.