Benefits:
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Email and apps are not on District servers so no updates to run locally or equipment to maintain.•
There is online collaboration amongst District staff and students and you can control who can edit.•
Users can work from any computer with Internet access and auto saving of your creations is happening; no need for backupseither.
The “Cloud”
This session will touch “anything” and “everything” cloud based that is important to districts today. We will compare and contrast Google Apps and Office 365, Cloud
Awareness:
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Security of proprietary data and applications•
Performance of cloud services; Bandwidth / Redundancy•
Concerns with technical aspects of integrating cloud applications/infrastructure with legacy systems•
Costs and Scalability of cloud vs traditional ways means that network hardware, software licensing/management and IT labor are all looked at differently when budgeting and consideration in moving to the cloud.•
Projection is that within 1-3 years, 35+% of IT budgets for K-12 schools will be for cloud computing.•
Limitations of settings that can be adjusted by the customer•
Email archiving can be done on your server or on Cloud usually for a fee.Google vs MS Office 365
Office 365 is a suite of Microsoft applications. This is a hosted subscription
service that includes Microsoft Office, Email and Calendars, Website, File sharing and managing projects, Instant messaging, Mobility.
Google Apps is a suite of Google applications.
Google is currently offering schools a hosted solution for their email, calendar, and chat through Google Apps for Education as an integrated communication and collaboration solution. Additionally, you can
Google Apps for Education Suite
• Classroom: Classroom is a new tool in Google Apps for Education that helps teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and easily communicate with their classes.
• Gmail: Email storage and search tools that help your students find information fast and instant messaging from right inside their accounts.
• Google Calendar: Students can organize their schedules and share events and calendars with others.
• Google Talk: Students can call or send instant messages to their contacts for free anytime, anywhere in the world.
• Google Docs: Share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Collaborate in real-time with your team or with your whole school. You can publish final documents to the entire world, too.
• Google Sites: Work together to keep related documents, web content and other information in one place, on one site.
Google Apps for Education is free.
Google Apps for Education - Common Questions
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139019 Here is a list of commonly asked questions about Google Apps for
Education. For additional information, please go to the Google Apps for Education website.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/6070127?hl=en
School Directory Sync
Google Apps Integration with LDAP
LDAP can be integrated with Google Apps using the following methods: Directory Sync - a scheduled process that executes inside the network to sync the accounts in Google Apps with your LDAP directory. It can update passwords if they are stored in LDAP as Plain Text, SHA1, or MD5
Email Migration Tools to convert Existing Mail to Gmail.
Email Migration Tools to convert Existing Mail to Gmail.
Exchange Online
You have access to email, calendar and contacts from virtually anywhere at any time on desktops, laptops and mobile devices, while helping to protect against malicious software and spam.
SharePoint Online
helps you create sites to share documents and information with colleagues and customers
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Office Web Apps
are convenient online companions to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft OneNote®, that offer you an easy way to access, view, and edit documents directly from your web browser.
Microsoft Lync
helps you find and quickly connect with the right person from within the Office applications you already use. Find and connect with colleagues and customers from virtually anywhere via rich presence, instant
messaging, audio-video calls, and online meetings
Office Professional Plus
For Education:
Full, installed Office applications Office for tablets
Office for smartphones
Online versions of Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint File storage and sharing
Business-class email, calendar, and contacts Unlimited online meetings
https://products.office.com/en-us/academic/compare-office-365-education-plans
compare cloud storage
Name:Amazon Cloud Drive Free cloud storage: 5GB
Name:Apple iCloud Free cloud storage: 5GB
Name:Box
Free cloud storage: 10GB
Cloud Storage Solutions
Name:Microsoft OneDrive Free cloud storage: 15GB Name:Dropbox
Free cloud storage: 2GB
Novell Filr provides enterprise-level mobile file access and sharing. Novell Filr allows your users to access their home directories and network folders on any mobile device, as well as synchronize their files to their PC and Mac
computers. They can also share the files internally and externally and comment on shared files.
Rather than move your data to the cloud, Filr lets you keep files and data where they are today and where they belong—in established and secure company file storage that already meets your regulatory requirements; your file servers.
Users love mobile file access and sharing, but most cloud solutions can give the IT department a headache. Not Novell Filr.
Cloud Printing
Google Cloud Print - You can make your Schools
printers available from the applications you use every day.
Google Cloud Print works on your phone, tablet,
Chromebook, PC, and any other web-connected device
you want to print from.
Novell iPrint - Provides Secure Enterprise Print
Services for your Android phones & tablets, which
integrates with any of your existing corporate printers,
no matter which printing vendor you have or which
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Hosted Services
o Technology services offered to your school by a provider that hosts the physical servers running that service somewhere else. Access to the service is usually provided through a direct network connection that may or may not run via the Internet.
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Cloud Computing
o A hosted service that's accessible over the Internet - a subset of hosted services. With this being said, the cloud application has been built to have collaboration and interconnectivity with other cloud applications. Outlook