CATEGORY 1
Innovation
Evaluated based on the creative use of cloud technologies to address institutional challenges and/or operational efficiencies
- Winner: Arizona State University
- Runner-up: Oral Roberts University
CATEGORY 2
Collaboration
Evaluated based on the use of cloud technologies to address collaboration between one or more individual institutions, or one or more branch campuses within an institutional system
- Winner: Penn State University
- Runner-up: Montana State University
CATEGORY 3
Backup/Disaster Recovery
Evaluated based on the most complete use of cloud technologies to address overall institutional backup and or disaster recovery needs
- Winner: Harvard University
- Runner-up: UMBC
CATEGORY 4
Cloud Storage
Evaluated based on the complete use of cloud technologies to address institution-wide administrative and academic storage challenges for staff, faculty and/or students
- Winner: Duquesne University
- Runner-up: Northeastern Illinois University
CATEGORY 5
Public/Private Cloud Security
Evaluated based on the best application and/or approach to securing institutional public and/or private cloud resources
- Winner: Emory University
- Runner-up: University of Arizona UITS
CATEGORY 6
Hybrid Iaas/Paas
Evaluated based on the best application and design for an institutional infrastructure and platform as a service solution
- Winner: Northeastern Illinois University
- Runner-up: UMBC
Thank you to our 2018 sponsors, Canon, D2L, DLT and Juniper. Congratulations to Paul Erickson, Assistant Director for Enterprise Architecture at University of Nebraska for winning our TV raffle, provided by DLT.