We can support your IT needs
Educational institutions struggling with tight budgets need to find cost effective methods to provide students with information technology. Not only in supporting the classroom environment but also the operational aspects of running educational facilities. BEAR Data Consultants assist you in managing the diverse and growing technology requirements be it, helping you navigate the E-Rate procurement system or implementing solutions that optimize your infrastructures.
K-12 schools rely on IT to facilitate communication and learning among administrators, teachers, parents, and students. Their infrastructures must be open to a wide variety of applications, operating systems, and mobile user devices, but include security features to protect the integrity and privacy of certain information.
Higher-education institutions are competing for students and benefactors. They must offer current and continually expanding technologies at a very high level of security, uptime, and ease of use, to a diverse population. These institutions face similar challenges as their K-12 counterparts but on a larger, more complicated scale. Institutions need to facilitate secure collaboration among students and faculty both on and off campus, including online and remote classes.
Your BEAR Data consultant will work with you to apply for educational grants, keep you informed of new programs and technologies, reduce up-front and recurring costs, and amortize expenditures to keep IT affordable.
Your BEAR Data consultant can instruct you on cost-saving IT solutions such as:
- Cloud computing—Improve administration and delivery of all your educational applications and resources
- Datacenter virtualization—Ease management of your IT infrastructure, consolidate resources, and increase asset utilization rates, all of which reduces the cost of IT management
- Desktop virtualization—Centralize administration and control of IT services to reduce expenditures and increase security
- Mobility—Extend IT services throughout and beyond the campus to smartphones, notepads, laptops, and other mobile devices
- Unified communications—Merge voice and data networks to improve communications between school administrators, teachers, students, and parents
- Collaboration—Support smartboards, digital signage, online classrooms, and teleconferencing among students and faculty
- Security—Protect and maintain integrity of infrastructures, applications, and confidential information, preventing or mitigating compromise, theft, and loss
- Business Continuity—Assessment, documentation, and implementation of continuity plans of your business critical IT systems to fit your budget, so you stay in compliance
- Disaster Recover—Configuration of a redundant IT infrastructure, validation testing, and escalation management for your systems that ensure you are protected during network outages
- Staff Augmentation—Contract and recruitment services of technical resources on a contract or full-time basis to supplement your IT team’s needs
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