Cloud and the K-12 Community
Cloud?
What is the Cloud?
XaaS:
•Software - SaaS
•Platform - PaaS
•Infrastructure - IaaS
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I Hate the Cloud!
Cloud offers less control
Perceived security/privacy gaps
‘I Like to Build Things’
Cloud threatens headcount
Multi vendor – expensive,
hard to manage
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Intelligent Adoption of the Cloud
•It is not “all or nothing”
•It is not “one size fits all”
•Implementation should remain flexible and agile
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Hybrid Solutions Drive Innovation
23%
50%
Innovation
Innovation
30%
Monitoring and
Maintenance
24%
Admin and
maintenance
activities 77%
Deployment
20%
Monitoring and
Maintenance
15%
23%
Deployment
Pre-Systems
Deployment
15%
Pre-Systems
Deployment
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Admin and
maintenance
activities 50%
Cloud Services - Considerations
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Physical
Logical
Past Issues
IDS
IPS
SECURITY
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Network
Hardware
Optimization
PERFORMANCE
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Datacenters Where are They?
Can You Decide?
Datacenter Tour
Where Should They Be?
FOOTPRINT
Cloud Services - Considerations
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HIPAA
SSAE SOC 2
FERPA
COMPLIANCE
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SLA’s to the
School?
Uptime
Power
Network
Platforms
SLA’S
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What is Your Plan?
RTO/RPO
BC…
Mission Critical
Data
RECOVERY
Cloud Services - Considerations
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Load Balancing
Redundancy In
Place?
Is it Critical?
HIGH
AVAILABILITY
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Online
Tickets
Phone Support
Costs
SUPPORT
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Price War
Hidden Costs
Billing
Less expensive as
adoption increases
PRICE
Cloud Infrastructure Services
The K-12 mandate is the education and preparation of students to contribute to the
modern world, while conforming to a tight budget. Today’s K-12 is driven by IT;
through its ability to deliver curricula, experience, and administrative services.
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Privacy and Cloud Computing in K-12
Fordham University Study
The key findings from the analysis are:
• 95% of districts rely on cloud services for a diverse range of functions including data
mining related to student performance, support for classroom activities, student
guidance, data hosting, as well as special services such as cafeteria payments and
transportation planning.
• Cloud services are poorly understood, non-transparent, and weakly governed: only
25% of districts inform parents of their use of cloud services, 20% of districts fail to have
policies governing the use of online services, and a sizeable plurality of districts have
rampant gaps in their contract documentation, including missing privacy policies.
• Districts frequently surrender control of student information when using cloud
services: fewer than 25% of the agreements specify the purpose for disclosures of
student information, fewer than 7% of the contracts restrict the sale or marketing of
student information by vendors, and many agreements allow vendors to change the
terms.
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Student Information Privacy Recommendations
Fordham University Study / December 2013
• Contractual language on data breach and how breaches
are dealt with by vendor
• Vet vendors and users to ensure district policies are met
• Establish a CSO for larger districts
• Provide transparency on cloud usage
• FERPA Guidelines
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Learning to Love the Cloud!
Control what is important in your environment
Comply with Security/Privacy requirements
Enable users to excel
Architect before carpenter
Grow core competency
PaaS options can provide
elegant, affordable solutions
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More Information Needed?
Mary Ehrsam
Lead Government Account Manager
608-796-5599 or 608-769-0959
[email protected]
Mike Sasada
Lead Government Account Manager
262-641-4131 or 414-526-0414
[email protected]
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THANK YOU!
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