Network Applications and Presentations/Speeches

Begun in 1990, the Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study of the role of computing, e-learning, and information technology in U.S. higher education. This session will present the results of the 2008 Campus Computing Survey, including new data on P2P policies, open source deployment, IT security issues, strategic and financial planning for IT, instructional integration of IT, campus IT standards, learning management systems, and services on campus websites.

Small schools typically have fewer IT staff and resources to address a business challenge and need to think creatively about how to support the growing number of applications their constituents are requesting. Building cyberinfrastructure is particularly challenging, given the problems with scaling investments in technology. Using services provided by another organization is an attractive option, but periodically sending files of personally identifiable information to off-campus service providers so they can manage the accounts is risky. Federated identity management and solutions such as Shibboleth single sign-on and federating software can be used in these instances to enable campuses to streamline the technical management of accounts and maintain control of personal data while keeping the access decision in the hands of the service provider. Attendees of this seminar will leave with the federated identity value proposition, technology overview, strategies for implementation, and next steps for their campus.

IT Architects in Academia focuses on the practice of IT and enterprise architecture in higher education. We will review various ways IT architecture is implemented on campuses and how people engage with the campus. Discussion will include hot topics such as service-oriented architecture and EA challenges and incentives. We will also plan for future ITANA work. For more information, see our website (www.itana.org) and our wiki (https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Home).

Service-oriented architecture has received tremendous hype over the past several years. This presentation will provide perspectives from several institutions applying SOA-inspired solutions. Discussions will focus on what constitutes an SOA-style solution, alternatives, and practical experience in an effort to distill what value SOA holds for higher education.

In 2007 the EDUCAUSE Evolving Technology Committee listed virtualization as an important emerging technology. Fontys University has been virtualizing almost everything since 2005. This session will show how virtual networks, servers, applications, and (streaming) labs have cut cost and, more important, enabled students and teachers to reach new and far more ambitious goals.

Although SOA has become the dominant paradigm of enterprise computing, there is a lack of studies available on open source web service technologies. Learn how a consortium of universities completed an investigation of web standards and open source implementations to create an open source infrastructure for SOA.

ITS at Mississippi State University has created an efficient and secure online survey instrument used in the university's portal survey channel. The campus portal, onCampus, enables the instrument to be delivered to a precise target population in a secure, stable environment that produces quick, accurate responses.

Georgia Tech has offered a centralized video streaming service for over a decade. Initially supported as a traditional shared hosting service with users maintaining their own directories of content, the dramatic growth in volume in recent years has required a different approach. We are currently developing Open Media Services, an open source web service, which will provide multimedia storage, management, conversion, and streaming to various systems on campus (course management, classroom capture, iTunesU, podcasting, institution repositories, and more). The session will cover goals, strategies, and lessons learned related to this project and streaming media architectures in general.

Designing and implementing a network, server, and application architecture for 24 x 7 Web application delivery is a must in today's demanding business environment. This presentation will cover the planning, complexities to address, and necessary steps to achieve reliable delivery of campus-wide financial, human resources, and student applications.

Our existing educational system was created to serve in an era when knowledge was fairly static. Today's complex environments and rapid knowledge growth require an educational model that is adaptive to global trends and new learning contexts. Our existing structures of learning need to be redesigned to account for foundational shifts in business, government, society, and technology.