News for and about the Internet2 community

[Todd Sedmak <>]

Thank you for your interest in stories related to the Internet2 community. Here are a few stories from this week:

Blackboard Offers Solution and Services to Internet2 Higher Education Members

 

Offer Developed in Partnership with Leading Higher Education Institutions

 

WASHINGTON – July 16, 2014 – Blackboard has created a customized learning and analytics offering available to the 259 higher education Internet2 members, the company and Internet2 announced today. The Internet2 NET+ offer will not only provide access to the company’s market-leading solutions for teaching, learning and collaboration, but also includes robust analytic and learning outcomes tools, a cloud-based, cross-institutional content repository that supports most learning management systems (LMSs), and helpdesk and adoption services. Details at http://bit.ly/1l46lSY.

Code42 and Internet2 NET+ Score High in Protecting Endpoint Data for Leading Universities

 

MINNEAPOLIS – July 14, 2014 – Code42, the leader in endpoint data protection and management, today announced significant momentum in the higher education vertical, driven by increasing adoption of Internet2’s NET+ CrashPlan service. Code42’s CrashPlan for Enterprise is the only endpoint backup solution selected for the Internet2 NET+ service portfolio. Visit http://bit.ly/1yrCLix for more information.

 

Internet2 Discusses Advancing Science in the Age of Big Data and Support for Network Virtualization at XSEDE14 Conference

 

XSEDE Benefits 17 Supercomputers and 8,000 Scientists

 

WASHINGTON, D.C.—(July 15, 2014)--The Internet2 community has partnered closely with XSEDE collaborators to build a platform for innovating data intensive science applications to catalyze new discoveries, and support abundant bandwidth, friction-free science, and open network stacks. Furthermore, Internet2 is developing new virtualization capabilities to serve XSEDE’s and other researchers’ needs for virtualized compute and storage. Read more at http://bit.ly/1tMxof1.

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Todd

Todd Sedmak

Internet2

PR & Media Relations Manager

202-803-8978

www.internet2.edu