In this week’s IT news, in the face of increasing demand for its online services, a Philly college has found improves uptime performance, cost savings, and disaster recovery, in the cloud. Also, according to a new report, thanks to a lack of digital options and tedious online protocols part of many campus tech initiatives, student say they study less and think less of their institution; and an annual IT security report outlines how education fared against attacks in 2015.

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