Higher Education Embraces Digital Transformation With Box
September 20 2018 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Prominent Universities like Georgia Tech, LSU,
and University of Louisville modernize student, faculty, and staff
experiences with the cloud
Box, Inc. (NYSE:BOX) today announced that leading universities,
including California State University, Bakersfield, Duke
University, Georgia Tech, LSU, University of Louisville, and
University of Nebraska have selected Box’s cloud content management
platform for campus-wide deployments. These higher education
institutions are starting the new school year by modernizing IT
strategies, driving digital transformation projects, and powering
student, faculty, and administrative staff productivity with
Box.
“Security, data governance, and protection of our most critical
content was the upmost priority when looking to implement a unified
cloud content management platform for our 36,000 students, faculty,
and staff,” said John Borne, Deputy CIO and Executive Director for
Information Security and Risk at LSU. “Box is the cloud service we
selected to meet our university community’s needs.”
“We are thrilled to partner with the world’s leading colleges
and universities to power the future of collaboration for education
and research,” said Andrew Keating, Managing Director of Education
at Box. “These universities are modernizing their IT environments
to improve productivity and streamline real-time access to
information for more effective research, teaching, and learning. By
utilizing Box with best-of-breed cloud services, universities can
digitize their administrative processes and enable modern ways of
working for their faculty and students.”
This back-to-school season more universities than ever before
are driving digital transformation through campus-wide, cloud
content management deployments. With continued momentum in higher
education, these new and expanded customers join countless others
like Indiana University, University of Michigan, and Penn State,
who are leveraging Box’s cloud content management platform. These
universities represent a wide variety of use cases:
- California State University,
Bakersfield leverages Box as a campus-wide tool to centralize
content management and meet security and compliance standards.
- Duke University has made Box available
across the university to power internal and external collaboration,
ensuring HIPAA compliance for sensitive data.
- Georgia Tech will utilize Box KeySafe
for encryption key management, ensuring enhanced data security,
privacy, and control, which is critical for protecting the
university’s research involving sensitive data.
- LSU chose Box Governance for retention
management and protection of critical content.
- University of Louisville expanded on
their Box deployment, implementing Box Governance to bolster
security, compliance and data protection for their most important
information.
- University of Nebraska standardized
with Box for cloud content management for all its campuses.
Box has a lengthy history of strategic engagement with the
higher education community, originating in 2012 with its
partnership with Internet2, a non-profit research and education
consortium. Box for Education launched in 2015 and offers qualified
non-profit education customers Box enterprise licensing and
unlimited storage for all their students, faculty, and staff. It
has helped colleges and universities of all sizes to:
- Deploy wall-to-wall to their entire
campus community, giving all students, faculty, and staff the power
to collaborate seamlessly within their campuses and beyond;
- Reduce costs and reallocate funds
through the retirement of legacy on premises hardware;
- Eliminate ongoing maintenance and
operational burdens of running in-house file sharing services;
- Support the move of sensitive data to
the cloud, leveraging security and compliance offerings like Box
Governance for data retention, legal holds, and content
classification; and
- Collaborate with their peers at the
hundreds of universities deploying Box.
To learn more about Box for Education, please visit
https://www.box.com/industries/education.
About Box
Box (NYSE:BOX) is the cloud content management company that
empowers enterprises to revolutionize how they work by securely
connecting their people, information and applications. Founded in
2005, Box powers more than 87,000 businesses globally and 69
percent of the Fortune 500, including AstraZeneca, General
Electric, P&G, and The GAP. Box is headquartered in Redwood
City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.
To learn more about Box, visit http://www.box.com/.
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