![]() Colleges and universities now have 100 terabytes of pooled storage among their users, a number that doesn’t match demand at a place like UH. One of those evolutions came in 2021, when Google announced it would be imposing storage limits on users for the first time, including higher education institutions. To ease the IT burden internally, UH decided to take what was, at the time, a somewhat unprecedented step: It became one of the first universities in the country to contract with Google and take large chunks of its operation - including email and storage - into the cloud with a service that, at the time, came to it free of charge.įast-forward to 2022: UH is still a Google partner, using some of the free services offered by Google Workspace for Education (formerly called G Suite for Education) and some at its now paid tier, and the university been joined by scores of higher education institutions around the world using the broad suite of tools Google offers.Ĭlick the banner below to receive exclusive content about software in higher ed.Īlong the way, the Google suite has evolved as has its relationship with higher education institutions like UH. ![]() More than 10 years ago, IT administrators at the sprawling public university were hosting their own email server, provisioning on-premises and running into increasing storage demands from a community of between 75,000 and 100,000 users, according to Garret Yoshimi, the university’s vice president for IT and CIO. The University of Hawai‘i was looking for something new.
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