Academia remains cautious about security in adopting cloud computing models. Putting data on someone’s public storage or running software on someone else’s CPU can trigger fears of data loss, phishing, botnet andRead More…
GÉANT was honoured to have senior managers of Zoom present an online seminar to the R&E community on April 15 2020. Managers from across the globe addressed the community and offered detailedRead More…
OCRE has published its OCRE IaaS+ tender which will be executed by GÉANT. The tender was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 16 April 2020. The estimated total valueRead More…
As the whole world is adapting to working and studying from home in the time of COVID-19 pandemic, in Ukraine researchers, students and teachers have a new tool to help them: eduMEET.Read More…
For countries who wish to offer Learning Management Systems (LMS) via national tenders, the GÉANT cloud team has prepared a tender template bundle to save NRENs time and resources. The pre-packaged tenderRead More…
Zoom is a video first communications platform that provides both free accounts (Basic Plan) and paid Education Specific licenses (EDU Plan) which are enhanced with additional functionality. The basic plan offers aRead More…
To support NRENs and institutions during the Covid-19 pandemic, the GÉANT cloud team has assembled a list of the free cloud offers from Google, Amazon, Microsoft and GÉANT. We also have an overview of theRead More…
Amazon understands that having school children and university students at home, online and video learning may be key as this crisis continues. Amazon is helping by providing video conferencing software and workRead More…
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every student and teacher on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft Teams and Microsoft solutions for education allow students to learn from anywhere, anytime. Content and assignmentsRead More…
As many educational institutions are facing or planning for closures due to COVID-19, the Google for Education and the Google Cloud for Higher Education teams are providing product solutions, training and resourcesRead More…