Dr. Malathi Veeraraghavan, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, and Internet2 community member and collaborator, passed away on Monday, May 11.

Mike Erickson has joined the Internet2 team and will help lead the development and ongoing implementation of all community engagement efforts for Internet2. He will be responsible for sustaining and enriching membership and community participation in alignment with Internet2’s strategic direction.

Gregory D. Palmer, research liaison in the information systems and computing organization at the University of Pennsylvania, passed away on Tuesday, November 12, 2019. Palmer was widely known for being an early supporter and advocate for research and education collaborations both nationally and globally.

While multi-institutional collaborations on the rise, the data sets that support them are getting too large to transfer easily, the computing resources that they require have increased beyond the capacity of most campuses, and the expertise needed to support compute intensive research is scarce. Join Barr von Oehsen at the 2019 Internet2 Technology Exchange to learn how ERN addresses these challenges by leveraging the special relationship between researchers and the people who build and support research cyberinfrastructure across the Northeast. 

Join the University of Delaware on Dec. 12 at the 2019 Technology Exchange as they share their team’s experience in running Zeek to analyze network traffic on their campus.

For the last seven years the Scientific Computing Board (SCB) at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has gathered scientists and information technologists from the agency's seven centers to discuss accomplishments, foster collaboration, and set support priorities for their scientific research and regulatory work. 

David M. Reese, Vice President for Regional and International Initiatives at the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), passed away on Sunday, September 15, 2019.

Internet2 is monitoring Hurricane Dorian and will continue to monitor the situation closely to determine what impacts may arise to our campus members and regional network partners in the storm path. We will continue to update this page as information changes or becomes available.

We are pleased to announce the next phase of investment in the industry membership program with the hiring of Ben Fineman to lead the program as Sr. Program Manager, Industry Engagement.

David R. Swanson, research professor in computer science and engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and director of the Holland Computer Center, passed away on Sunday, August 11.

Internet2 is monitoring Tropical Storm Barry and will continue to monitor the situation closely to determine what impacts may arise to our campus members and regional network partners in the storm path. We will continue to update this page as information changes or becomes available.

More than 100 campuses have expressed interest in the Internet2 Cloud Connect service, which enables campuses to leverage the value of their existing investment in Internet2 and their regional network. 

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.

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. 

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.

At TechEX 2018, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Florida are planning two presentations focused on helping universities with controlled unclassified information.

Many of us find that researchers are unaware that Identity Federation services exist to make their work easier by enabling seamless, faster, and better collaboration.

Identity-as-a-Service (IdaaS) has emerged as one of the many cloud-based Software-as-a-Service offerings. Some of the more well-known names in this field include Okta, Forgerock, OneLogin, and Auth0. The biggest tech players also offer IdaaS which includes AWS Cognito, Google IdP, and Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).