Blog: The ARP ESSER Impact on Tech Companies and the EDU Sector

In response to the pandemic, Congress passed several education funding bills, including the ARP ESSER, to reopen K-12 schools safely and address learning loss.

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• IT Modernization, All

Advancing Cybersecurity in Academia: Safeguarding the Student Experience

Executives from Google Cloud, Microsoft, IBM & AWS share insights on their initiatives to help accelerate and strengthen the public sector’s cybersecurity initiatives. Carahsoft is a leading IT distributor for cybersecurity solutions offered by the cited technology providers, and all are available for purchase through the E&I Carahsoft contract.

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• Cybersecurity, All

Gaining Insight: Data Use for Campus Success

The use of data doesn’t have to end with enhancing student services. It can also address the needs of others on and off campus. Laying the groundwork requires expert guidance and the right technology.

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• Data, All

A Keen Eye: Data Diving on Campus

Forward-thinking IT staff have learned that they don’t have to go it alone. There are organizations and companies specializing in cybersecurity primed to help schools and districts formulate their response to the unique challenges they face. Many have hired top names with decades of K-12 leadership experience to influence the development of services and programs that will best serve the education segment specifically.

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• Data, All

The Absolutely Essential Higher Ed Superpower

Gaining visibility into what’s going on inside your systems lets IT teams be proactive, and that makes all the difference in how effective they are.

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• Data, SolarWinds

Why the Student Experience Matters (and What You Can Do About It)

It’s time to embrace the student experience as a crucial data set — and experience management as a core part of your institutional tech stack.

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• Data, Qualtrics

It’s Time to Re-imagine Your Front Door

The secret to updating the digital experiences your college offers is to consider how the best digital players are solving the same problems for their higher ed clients.

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• Data, Mediacurrent

Seeking a Modern Search Experience

The online user experience has — in some cases — become the only one people have with your campus. Is it as effective as it can be?

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• Data, Elastic

When Live Virtual Learning Really Works

The best courses deliver collaborative learning experiences that engage and inspire learners. Your virtual learning platform can either help or hinder that pursuit.

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• Data, Adobe

The Long Wait: Why It’s Time for Higher Ed to Embrace Automation

No other segment will benefit more than education, where rote work abounds.

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• Data, Red Hat

Partnering for Smarter and More Efficient Purchasing

It doesn’t matter how innovative your campus wants to be. If you can’t get the products and services when they’re needed at a price your institution can afford, those innovations will remain nothing more than good ideas.

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• Data, OMNIA

EdTech Talks

Carahsoft’s inaugural EdTech Talks summit featured success stories, panel sessions and keynote addresses that showcased the IT solutions and trends helping to innovate Higher Education and K-12 classrooms.

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• All, All

Safe and Sound Schools

Safeguarding the Student Journey: Cybersecurity in K-12

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• Cybersecurity, All

Break-out Lessons for Back to School

K-12 has become a prime target for criminals. These resources can help you solidify your district’s security posture before you become the victim of a cyber attack.

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• All, All

Closing in on Cybersecurity Stability

Finding balance among safety, continuity and enablement of education is the real goal of K-12 IT these days, and that’s not something you can buy in a box. Here’s how to achieve it.

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• Cybersecurity, Palo Alto Networks

Getting Away from the Ransomware Triple Threat

Your own district could easily be the next victim of a cyber-attack. What are you doing about it?

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• Cybersecurity, HPE

The Essential Cybersecurity Service You’ve Never Heard Of

No-cost membership in the MS-ISAC can help protect your school from the growing cybersecurity threat.

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• Cybersecurity, CIS

Greatness Awaits: Dump the Paperwork

There’s a lot going on in K-12, so how people spend their time is important. Shifting from paper to digital solutions ensures schools are ready for whatever happens next.

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• Cybersecurity, SAP Concur

Virtual is Here to Stay, so Make It Better

There’s little reason to think online or virtual education will go away. It’s time for schools to make sure it’s not a lesser experience.

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• Cybersecurity, Class

Start with the End(point) in Mind

The right security solution will protect schools against ransomware and other threats while still allowing teaching and learning to continue.

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• Cybersecurity, Ivanti

How to Tame the Cloud with One Call

E&I Cooperative Services, a member-owned, non-profit sourcing cooperative for education, does a lot more for K-12 than just provide better pricing for its over 5,500 members, as Vice President of Technology Keith Fowlkes explains in this interview.

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• Cybersecurity, All

Locking Down Information Management Security on Campus

The bad news: As colleges and universities have accelerated their digital transformations, IT’s efforts have been hampered by an increase in cybersecurity attacks. The good news: Proven solutions are at hand.

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• Cybersecurity, All

Planning for the Worst Day

IT security in the new normal requires a combination of human smarts, planning and preparation, peer guidance, and well-chosen technology. Anything less and you’re putting your campus community at risk.

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• Cybersecurity, All

Gaining Total Visibility

Campus IT needs a consistent view into how data flows through the network, cloud and endpoints; otherwise, security will continue to be a hit-and-miss remedy.

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• Cybersecurity, Palo Alto Networks

A Unifying Viewpoint for Security

Automation of the easy stuff improves your information security efforts and makes the work that’s left far more interesting for those who do it.

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• Cybersecurity, Splunk

AI and the Carrot Approach to Zero-Trust Network Access

When you tackle the job of security with artificial intelligence, the result is a liberated user base and a re-energized IT crew.

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• Cybersecurity, Blackberry

Protecting the Campus from the Outside In

DNS security provides a first line of defense, helping colleges and universities protect against bad traffic coming from a multitude of directions, way before it hits the network infrastructure.

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• Cybersecurity, Infoblox

Uncovering the Hidden Costs of Cloud Security

As your usage of the public cloud for secure storage expands, so does the expense. Here’s how to optimize your spending.

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• Cybersecurity, Wasabi

Staying on Top of Cybersecurity: A Conversation with Two University CISOs

In this interview Tom Dugas, chief information security officer for Duquesne University, and Rick Haugerud, CISO for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, explain how Internet2’s NET+ program is helping them manage cybersecurity for their institutions.

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• Cybersecurity, All

Community-Powered Problem-Solving

Nick Lewis, program manager for security and identity at Internet2, describes how the community-driven Internet2 NET+ program helps higher ed institutions get fast, proven answers to their questions and vetted solutions for their cloud and security challenges.

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• Cybersecurity, All

Campus Tech Report: IT Modernization for Campus Re-entry

As colleges and universities prepare for a return to normalcy, IT is front and center for delivering the technology services that can position schools to be stronger now than before the pandemic.

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• IT Modernization, All

Campuses Emerging Stronger

Now that faculty, staff and students have a taste of remote work and learning, it can never entirely go away. Here’s why.

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• IT Modernization, All

Mastering the Art and Design of Remote Work

Remote work and study aren’t going away; NVIDIA virtual GPU technology is essential to ensure a quality learning experience from any place and at any time.

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• IT Modernization, NVIDIA

Easier Identity and Access Management

The last thing IT should burden students with is a fog of logins. The use of an identity cloud makes accessing their digital lives easier and more secure.

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• IT Modernization, Okta

Evolving with IT to Support Research

Modernizing the campus approach to IT infrastructure for supporting research has never been so urgent.

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• IT Modernization, Red Hat

Your Starting Point for IT Optimization

Refreshing your IT operations can only begin after you get visibility into what your infrastructure is up to.

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• IT Modernization, SolarWinds

Building the Virtualized Student Union

College no longer takes place just on campus. Virtualizing operations ensures that the student experience remains consistently excellent and secure, wherever it happens.

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• IT Modernization, VMware

Accelerating Student Success with AI

As colleges and universities struggle with enrollment, Google Cloud Student Success Services is poised to reinvent how institutions support and engage their students.

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• IT Modernization, Google Cloud

A Conversation with Jen Leasure

The Quilt’s President and CEO discusses how her organization’s members — state research and education networks — are helping colleges and universities build and maintain new learning environments

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• IT Modernization, All