CATEGORY 1
Innovation
Evaluated based on the creative use of cloud technologies to address institutional challenges and/or operational efficiencies
- Winner: Stanford Medicine
- Runner-up: The George Washington 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: University of Michigan/University of Minnesota/Internet2 Partnership
- Runner-up: Concordia University-Portland
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: Bentley University
- Runner-up: University of the Virgin Islands
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: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Runner-up: The University of Arizona
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: University of Notre Dame
- Runner-up: Indiana University
CATEGORY 6
Hybrid IaaS and PaaS
Evaluated based on the best application and design for an institutional infrastructure and platform as a service solution
- Winner: Kansas State University
- Runner-up: Penn State University
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