Application Migration to the Cloud: Know Your Purpose
Institutions have moved commercial, on-premises applications to the cloud with significant success over the last several years. As I’ve spoken to CIOs about this shift, I’ve discovered a variety of drivers for their initiatives, with various pathways, but generally with solid success. The most important common factor in their successes was defining their strategy based […]
Higher Education Business Continuity Planning During a Crisis
Tambellini’s Vice President of Research, Large Enterprise Systems, Dave Kieffer discusses higher education’s dependency on technology and how past crises and contingency planning for other situations have prepared institutions for meeting the challenges presented by closures due to COVID-19. Kieffer highlights the strengths technology brings to communication during these times, as well as the frustrations […]
Teaching Continuity in a Remote Setting: Expectations Are Key to Faculty and Student Success
As colleges and universities send their students, faculty, and staff home to teach, learn and work, what does it mean to move your face to face engaged classrooms to an online environment, and how do you support them best? This reminds me of the early days of using a learning management system (LMS). When I […]
Are You Suddenly Managing a Remote Team?
As colleges and universities move to remote work in the coming days, it is a challenging time for leaders who need to stay productive and take care of the health and well-being of their team members. If you are responsible for a team that is suddenly remote, here are some tips to help you keep […]
Coronavirus, Compassion, and Change
I feel for my former colleagues and friends in higher education right now. Having recently left an institutional role, I can easily imagine the conversations that are happening on campuses across the United States, the difficult decisions that are being made, and the stress that COVID-19 is creating for institutions and their leaders, their faculty […]
Coronavirus and COVID-19: How Colleges and Universities Should Prepare
Tambellini’s Vice President of Industry Relations Raechelle Clemmons discusses measures higher education institutions should take to prepare for consequences of the novel coronavirus. This podcast focuses on disaster recovery and business continuity and the unique situations in which institutions may find themselves. Colleges and universities may be faced with the need to close, requiring IT […]
Up, Up and Away: Three Key Issues for Educational Institutions to Consider in Cloud Computing Deals
A higher educational institution makes significant investments in technology to perform critical functions for the institution. More and more frequently, these technology solutions are provided on a cloud basis, in which the computing functions and the storage and processing of the institution’s data are performed remotely by the vendor. While the cloud-based model can provide […]