EDUCAUSE 2014: Colleges Reaping Gains from the Cloud

The cloud offers higher education myriad ways to innovate, and save on the bottom line.

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<li>Sue B. Workman, CIO, Case Western Reserve University</li>
<li>Rick Matthews, Director of Academic and Instructional Technology, Wake Forest University</li>
<li>Mike Chapple, Senior Director, Enterprise Support Services, Notre Dame University</li>
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<li>Cloud computing and cloud-based applications offer new opportunities for higher education institutions to save resources as well as time and space.</li>
<li>Colleges and universities are shifting ERP and administrative functions to the cloud in addition to academic storage and classroom tools.</li>
<li>SaaS, IaaS and PaaS are explored by many institutions adopting a cloud-first program. For those institutions, on-site options are built out only when cloud alternatives aren't viable.</li>
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