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[Todd Sedmak <>]

Internet2 NET+ Services To Deliver Cloud Services To University Faculty, 
Staff and Students Nationwide

New partnerships announced with HP, SHI International and Box

Raleigh, N.C.—Oct. 4, 2011—Internet2, the world’s most advanced networking 
consortium, today announced individual partnerships with HP, SHI 
International and Box to deliver new Internet2 NET+ Services, including cloud 
computing and infrastructure services, to Internet2 members’ faculty, staff 
and students nationwide. The announcement was made at today’s Internet2 Fall 
Member Meeting.

“These partnerships benefit our members by making secure and very affordable 
cloud computing services available anywhere, anytime,” said Dave Lambert, 
President and  CEO, Internet2. “By leveraging existing community investments, 
Internet2 provides seamless access to standard and customized offerings from 
industry leaders for chief information officers in higher education to 
consider in their technology plans. Internet2 NET+ Services are the next 
generation of value from Internet2.“

Internet2 NET+ Services provide “above the network” services to Internet2 
member organizations, including higher education, government, and industry. 
Cornell University; Indiana University; Penn State; University of California, 
Berkeley; University of Michigan; University of Notre Dame; University of 
Utah; and other Internet2 participating campuses will immediately begin 
testing and validating some of the specific offerings and services.  The new 
services will create a platform tailored to the needs of the Internet2 
community, and will leverage Internet2’s 100G network and InCommon identity 
management services. Higher education members who are InCommon subscribers 
may purchase Box and HP services in early 2012, as part of their annual 
membership.

Based on the HP Converged Infrastructure and HP Cloud System solutions, HP, 
in conjunction with SHI, will provide a “private community cloud” suite of 
infrastructure services that are designed to meet required levels of 
security, performance and availability for higher education. HP and SHI will 
operate these services for the Internet2 community. SHI Cloud combines 
best-of-breed technologies to create the most secure, high-performance, and 
industrial grade cloud offering with private, dedicated, managed or 
multi-tenant options. Indiana University; Penn State; University of Notre 
Dame; and the University of Utah will participate in a pilot program after 
which the service will be made broadly available.

“Top research institutions require flexible, affordable cloud services to be 
able to conduct some of the most important, compute-intensive research in the 
world,” said Rich Geraffo, senior vice president and managing director of HP 
Enterprise business. “HP and SHI are teaming up to deliver Internet2 members 
the reliability, performance and scalability required to further advance 
these innovative efforts.”

“Academic communities are driving innovation in every industry, and they 
require a cloud platform that’s powerful, secure, and scalable to support 
their computing needs,” says Thai Lee, president and CEO of SHI. “By joining 
forces with HP and Internet2, we’ll be able to deliver and manage an 
affordable private cloud that will let research teams focus on their work, 
not their IT department. Further, our robust industrial-grade cloud platform 
will support the core mission of Internet2 by delivering technology that goes 
beyond today and meets future needs of the computing world.”

Box provides secure, scalable content sharing and collaboration that both 
users and IT love and adopt. Box's dynamic, flexible content management 
solution empowers users to share and access content from anywhere, while 
providing IT enterprise-grade security and oversight into how content moves 
within their organizations. Content on Box can also be accessed through 
mobile applications, and extended to partner applications such as Google 
Apps. Cornell University; Indiana University; University of California, 
Berkeley; University of Michigan; University of Notre Dame; and other early 
adopters will immediately begin using Box to validate and tune the offering.

“Today, cloud solutions can easily and securely connect users to their 
content, which allows them to make better decisions – faster – and work more 
effectively with anyone,” said Dan Levin, COO of Box. “We are thrilled to be 
working with Internet2 so universities across the country can use Box to 
access their information, collaborate with others and share valuable content 
from wherever they are.”

About Internet2

Internet2, owned by U.S. research universities, is the world’s most advanced 
networking consortium for global researchers and scientists who develop 
breakthrough Internet technologies and applications and spark tomorrow’s 
essential innovations. Internet2 consists of more than 350 U.S. universities; 
corporations; government agencies; laboratories; higher learning; and other 
major national, regional and state research and education networks; and 
organizations representing more than 50 countries. Internet2, Internet2 NET+ 
Services, and InCommon are registered trademarks. For more information, see 
www.internet2.edu.

About HP

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on 
people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology 
company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal 
computing, software, services and IT infrastructure at the convergence of the 
cloud and connectivity, creating seamless, secure, context-aware experiences 
for a connected world. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at 
http://www.hp.com.

About SHI

Founded in 1989, SHI International Corp. is a $3.5 billion+ global provider 
of technology products and services. Driven by the industry's most 
experienced and stable sales force and backed by software volume licensing 
experts, hardware procurement specialists, and certified IT services 
professionals, SHI delivers custom IT solutions to Corporate, Enterprise, 
Public Sector, and Academic customers. With over 1,750 + employees worldwide, 
SHI is the largest Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the 
U.S. and is ranked 19th among Everything Channel's VAR 500 list of North 
American IT solution providers. For more information, visit 
http://www.shicloud.com.

About Box


Founded in 2005, Box provides a secure content sharing platform that both 
users and IT love and adopt. Content on Box can be shared internally and 
externally, accessed through iPad, iPhone and Android applications, and 
extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and 
Salesforce. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Box is a privately held company 
and is backed by venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher 
Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Scale 
Venture Partners, and U.S. Venture Partners. To learn more about Box, please 
visit www.box.net.


Todd Sedmak
Internet2
Communications Manager
202-331-5373