NYSCIO 2017: KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM NYSERNET’S 16TH ANNUAL EVENT

NYSERNet’s NYSCIO 2017 conference explores IT trends within higher education institutions

As discussed in our recent blog, The Impact of Technology on Higher Education, technological innovation is making an enormous impact on the higher education system as an increasing number of institutions utilize IoT, Big Data analytics, OTT streaming technologies and advanced online learning platforms to provide students, faculty and administration with an abundance of new opportunities to enhance educational experiences.

Last week, NYSERNet’s 16th annual New York State Chief Information Officer (NYSCIO) conference took place at the Harbor Hotel in Clayton, New York, a region better known as the 1000 Islands. This event brings together Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and senior IT leaders from across New York State’s higher education community, providing a platform for networking, education and business development. I had the pleasure of attending the three-day conference to not only share information about the Telehouse data center services and solutions that benefit the higher education community, but to gain a deeper understanding of the various challenges and obstacles faced by academia’s leaders and decision-makers.

While in attendance, I had the opportunity to hear about the higher education’s most pressing topics, including IT compliance issues, digital transformation, Big Data analytics and integration of IT and academics. During the event, I was also introduced to the findings of the recent Fall 2016 Campus Computing Survey during a session led by Campus Computing Project Founding Director, Casey Green, who explored the various IT priorities of New York universities and colleges.

The results of the 2016 National Survey of eLearning and Information Technology in U.S. Higher Education indicated that there are five major priorities for today’s campus administrators, including hiring and retaining qualified IT staff; assisting faculty with the instructional integration of IT; upgrading and enhancing network and data security; providing adequate user support services; and leveraging IT resources to support student success. In fact, each one of these concerns was ranked a top priority by more than 75 percent of survey responders. To read more click here....

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Telehouse Global: The Impact of Technology on Higher Education

BUILDING A SAFER, SMARTER AND MORE CONNECTED WORLD, ONE CAMPUS AT A TIME

Higher education directly affects social mobility and economic development on a global scale. For this reason, innovative technologies enabled by advanced colocation services are being developed to make higher education more attainable, affordable and effective for students from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds and geographic regions. Leveraging the power of the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data analytics, OTT streaming technologies and advanced online learning platforms, institutions are providing access to an array of new opportunities for high-quality educational experiences.

Technological innovation is fundamentally changing how universities interact with students, enabling global institutions from both the public and private education sectors to adopt various trends such as adaptive learning technologies that monitor student progress, mobile applications that enable students to remotely access course material, and next-gen learning management systems that deliver a holistic view of educational development.

Once the province of for-profit institutions, online classes are now offered at top tier universities such as Harvard, Yale and Brown, as well as mid-level and community colleges worldwide. The growing popularity of online education is due in part to the ability to provide course material in a way that is not only flexible, but immersive, utilizing mobile technology, web-based video communications, and access to a seemingly endless supply of online content and resources.

These same technologies have also granted globally dispersed universities and research organizations the ability to partner and collaborate on many influential research projects. At the University of Wisconsin, for example, agriculture students and faculty work alongside various Chinese research universities and organizations to analyze environmental factors affecting the milk yield of cows and develop solutions for the advancement of the dairy industry.

Technology is also helping universities make their communities safer, smarter and more efficient. Use of IoT devices and smart technology are pervasive throughout university campuses, ranging from automated emergency alerts and outdoor Wi-Fi access points, to smart laundry facilities and responsive HVAC systems. Data collection has also opened the door to the use of advanced analytics that help university administrators better understand and satisfy the needs of their student body with technologies such as smart map apps that help them navigate the campus, and IP-enabled cameras for enhanced security. Continue reading from original source….

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TELEHOUSE GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT: OTT VIEWERSHIP IS FAST BECOMING OVER THE TOP

Colocation Provides a Solution to OTT Performance

Over-the-Top (OTT), in telecom parlance, refers to an app or service that delivers content such as streaming video and audio over the internet rather than traditional cable or satellite distribution. According to the 2017 OTT Video Services Study conducted by Level 3 Communications, viewership of OTT video services, including Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime, will overtake traditional broadcast TV within the next five years. Meanwhile, Juniper Research predicts that the global OTT market will increase to $18 billion in 2019, up from $8.5 billion just three years ago.

Additionally, it’s worthy of note that the audience for OTT content is growing not only in total viewership and revenue, but geographically. Last year, Netflix tripled its global reach by expanding into an additional 130 countries as the video streaming service took its most aggressive step yet in its plans for international growth.

The reason for the surge in OTT viewership lies in immediate gratification: People want what they want when they want it. OTT allows viewers to consume content whenever and wherever they desire on their preferred device. Particularly for millennials, appointment TV is now widely considered a legacy entertainment model.

Supporting the increasing volume of streaming video requires solutions to the hosting, delivery, bandwidth and performance challenges that all too frequently frustrate the Quality-of-Service and experience of online video viewers. Whether at the source or along the last mile, insufficient bandwidth creates interruptions that result in dreaded buffering pauses. Content providers address bandwidth challenges by compressing data and bringing content closer to users by placing the data on edge servers in strategically located data centers and colocation facilities around the world. However, in order for OTT players to successfully reach their audience, it’s critical to collocate within data centers capable of providing low-latency connectivity to end users throughout their target geographic regions. Click here to visit original source...


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7 Teleport Drive,
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Phone No: 718–355–2500
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TELEHOUSE GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT: SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING AND THE DATA CENTER

Enhancing Connectivity for the Globalized Economy

As enterprises both large and small become increasingly globalized, expanding their businesses across cities, countries and even continents, their networks must grow with them. Software-Defined Networking addresses the fact that the static architecture of conventional networks has become ill-suited to the computing and storage needs of today’s global data center environments and the organizations they serve.

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging architecture that is adaptable, manageable and cost-effective, making it ideal for the dynamic, high-bandwidth nature of today’s applications. This architecture decouples the network control and forwarding functions, enabling the network control to become directly programmable, and the underlying infrastructure to be abstracted for applications and network services. SDN facilitates the deployment of applications that make it easier for a widely-dispersed, global workforce to communicate and collaborate with each other.

Some of the key computing trends driving the need for SDN include the rise of cloud services, Big Data, and the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend. Moreover, applications that commonly access geographically distributed databases and servers through public and private clouds require extremely flexible traffic management and access to bandwidth on demand – something that SDN delivers. SDN restores control of the network to the network administrator, enabling a company to scale its network based on its own considerations, rather than based on existing vendor solutions. It provides more flexibility in configuring network traffic flow, better monitoring and smoother removal of inefficiencies and bottlenecks that would affect performance. Visit Original Source...


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Telehouse America
7 Teleport Drive,
Staten Island,
New York, USA 10311
Phone No: 718–355–2500
Email: gregory.grant@telehouse.com

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