Using the cloud to enable a mobile student body
October 13, 2014
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Drew Turney.
Bryant University, a private education provider based in Smithfield, Rhode Island, with a 150-year history, has around 3,400 students, over 85 percent of them residential, as well as 700 staff and faculty members. The 420-acre, 50-building campus is run by a centralised IT function, meaning staff members have their work cut out for them.
All Bryant University students receive a laptop configured and issued by the IT department, and they’re encouraged to use their own devices to collaborate with teachers and each other. Director of computer and telecommunications services Rich Siedzik called the resulting online learning management system "state of the art", but said the proliferation of devices and application endpoints needed to support it led to a 300 percent increase in the amount of data stored and managed by the university in just the last four years…
Cloud storage was the obvious solution, and in early 2014, Bryant University started using NaviSite’s NaviCloud Vault cloud storage platform to offset the infrastructure management and cost of securely storing a huge volume of student data…
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