Big Data in the Educational Enterprise – Can You Hear What Your (Machine) Data is Telling You?

Educational institutions face challenges that place ever-increasing demands on their technology infrastructure, and this infrastructure has become mission-critical in delivering more robust services under severe resource constraints. Campus networks, infrastructure, applications, servers, learning management systems and end-user devices generate a huge volume of logs, messages, traps and metrics, all of which provide a categorical record of behaviour of students, transactions, networks, servers, applications, and more. This machine-generated data can help diagnose and fix issues, but is also a source of critical intelligence for the institution – it represents a largely untapped opportunity for delivering improved services, security, and compliance under fiscally challenging circumstances.
This talk focuses on specific examples of higher education institutions across the globe using machine data to drive improved operational intelligence, and ways to educate the next generation of IT professionals so that they hit the ground running in a world of ‘changing communications and unfettered system and data access’.