Education has been marching down a digital path for years. With the rising demand for the availability of technology by a generation of digital native students, leading educators are using cloud, digital infrastructure, modern workspaces and enhanced cybersecurity technologies to deliver a modern education experience anywhere, anytime.

1. The way forward:
Educators need to build a secure, reliable
infrastructure to support today's connected, digital
students. From cloud computing to security to a robust
network, modern technology accelerates collaboration at
every level - from K-12 to higher education.
Campusconnectivity
Campus ambitions for a digital learning environment outstrip
IT’s ability to support digital education
And while more than half of
education institutions have done
a test drive with digital content,
just22%
have a complete strategy for
digital transition in place2
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education
digitalbusinessand
of K-20 institutions are
ready to handle more than
2 devices per student2
Only17% The average number of
devices used by a student2
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Education has been marching down a digital path for years. With the rising
demand for the availability of technology by a generation of digital native
students, leading educators are using cloud, digital infrastructure, modern
workspaces and enhanced cybersecurity technologies to deliver a modern
education experience anywhere, anytime.
Cloudtofostercollaborationandlowercosts
of higher education cloud users have
successfully reduced the cost of
applications moved to the cloud6
76% of higher education institutions have
implemented cloud computing7
43%
Secure,rapidcollaborationforresearch
2014:United States
National Science Foundation
awards USD 20 million
to two new testbeds to
support cloud computing
for academic research
‘Chameleon’ and ‘Aristotle’1
of K-12 institutions
have implemented or
are maintaining cloud
computing7
42%
K-12
Flexiblearchitecture
Bandwidthsupportforcomplexresearchandcollaboration
Remotelearning Collaborationtools
Basicconnectivityadequate:
Email, IM, web browsing
Advancedconnectivityhelps:
File sharing, database access
Highspeedconnectivitynecessary:
VoIP, remote instrumentation,
science lab, streaming video, virtual
desktop, online testing
have completed the move to
an all-digital content and
curriculum environment2
Only3%
Cybersecurity
of higher education IT leaders responding to
a recent survey experiencedacyberattack
on their campus network in the last year4
Nearlyhalf
Thetoptechnologytoensurearobust,scalableandaccessibleITinfrastructure?
Privacyandsecuritytoolsare the top priority. But 81%of IT
executives say budget constraints are hurting security5
Toward a more robust infrastructure: technologies in K-202
Firewalls, authentication, encryption
and other privacy/security tools
Campus-wide wi-fi
Cloud-based storage or
storage-area networks
Virtualisation/software-defined
computing
Unified communications
Cloud-based infrastructure
management solutions
82%
78%
58%
52%
28%
23%
plan to implement
virtualisation in the
next 12 months2
24%of K-20 institutions rely
on virtualisation to
ensure their IT
infrastructure is robust
and readily available2
52%
of higher education IT leaders say addressing the
rapidly growing demand for network bandwidth is
an important issue on their campus981%
I fell in love with the idea of being able to help so many more
people as it relates to getting an education.
-VishMakhijani,CEO,Udacity
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Sources:
1
https://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=132377
2
CDE Technology Infrastructure Survey, February 2015
3
"An Infrastructure for the Future," Center for Digital Education, 2015
4
https://afd34ee8b0806295b5a7-9fbee7de8d51db511b5de86d75069107.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/CDE15_Special_Report_Q2.pdf
5
21st Century Network Security for More Effective Higher Education, Center for Digital Education, 2015
6
CDW-G 2011 CLOUD COMPUTING TRACKING POLL
7
http://www.slideshare.net/rapidscale/cloud-computing-stats-cloud-for-education
9
http://www.campuscomputing.net/item/campus-computing-2014
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