by Somaliyah Al-Mahdi | Jul 25, 2013 | Blog
I’m looking forward to attending two great conferences this week. The first is the BCNET conference, which takes place April 30 through May 1st in Vancouver, British Columbia. At the conference, I will have the opportunity to connect again with our Canadian R&E...
by Somaliyah Al-Mahdi | Apr 26, 2013 | Blog
Our Quilt members play a critical role in aggregating support for big data, and the importance of that role was highlighted in an excellent presentation at the Internet2 Spring 2013 Member Conference this week. The panelists included: Mark Johnson from MCNC; Steven...
by Somaliyah Al-Mahdi | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog
Since launching our Quilt webinar series on OpenFlow technologies in the last month, I’ve been quite pleased with the participation and positive feedback I’ve been getting from those who joined us. In our first session, we were fortunate to have Steve Garrison,...
by Somaliyah Al-Mahdi | Nov 14, 2012 | Blog
I appreciated the chance to join about 8,000 IT leaders from higher education and R&E networking at EDUCAUSE’s annual conference last week in Denver. Of particular relevance for The Quilt community were sessions addressing the key IT challenges facing campuses: 1)...
by Somaliyah Al-Mahdi | Sep 28, 2012 | Blog
R&E networks are operating in an environment of fast-paced change with new opportunities and requirements from a growing number of stakeholders. At this week’s Internet2 Fall Member Meeting, representatives of three Quilt members will share how they managed to not...
