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The company specializes in providing managed hosting services to the third level education sector.
The company said it provides hosting services to more than 50 institutions across Europe. Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of Birmingham have both recently established new hosting agreements with Blackboard.
In addition, Leiden University in the Netherlands and The University of Manchester have recently extended their hosting agreements. "We rely on the Blackboard's hosting to deliver a large scale virtual learning solution to our students, and believe that our efforts will benefit greatly from Blackboard's new European data centre," said Sarah Morgan, Strategic Projects Manager at The University of Manchester. "Our campus has witnessed a growing number of students who choose to combine their academic study with employment, and this means that our e-learning offering must provide students with reliable, robust, real time access to their tutors, course material and campus wide learning resources."
Blackboard operates six data centers in the United States, the Netherlands and Australia that support e-learning applications for more than 600 clients.
"The opening of a second European data centre was essential to meeting the increasing demand we are seeing from European institutions," said Harry Choi, Vice President ofBlackboard Managed HostingSM. "Institutions need reliable, secure, high performance infrastructure to support their increasingly complex virtual learning environments. Many are finding that managed hosting is an essential ingredient in their efforts to drive student and institutional success." Blackboard Managed Hostingsupports 6 million active users, more than 3.5 million course sites and more than 350 million Internet hits a day during peak activity.
Collectively, more than 2,000 servers are managed daily which monitor over 18,000 services every few minutes, including a broad range of Blackboard software installations and third party services supported by Blackboard Managed Hosting.
The company specializes in providing managed hosting services to the third level education sector.
The company said it provides hosting services to more than 50 institutions across Europe. Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of Birmingham have both recently established new hosting agreements with Blackboard.
In addition, Leiden University in the Netherlands and The University of Manchester have recently extended their hosting agreements. "We rely on the Blackboard's hosting to deliver a large scale virtual learning solution to our students, and believe that our efforts will benefit greatly from Blackboard's new European data centre," said Sarah Morgan, Strategic Projects Manager at The University of Manchester. "Our campus has witnessed a growing number of students who choose to combine their academic study with employment, and this means that our e-learning offering must provide students with reliable, robust, real time access to their tutors, course material and campus wide learning resources."
Blackboard operates six data centers in the United States, the Netherlands and Australia that support e-learning applications for more than 600 clients.
"The opening of a second European data centre was essential to meeting the increasing demand we are seeing from European institutions," said Harry Choi, Vice President ofBlackboard Managed HostingSM. "Institutions need reliable, secure, high performance infrastructure to support their increasingly complex virtual learning environments. Many are finding that managed hosting is an essential ingredient in their efforts to drive student and institutional success." Blackboard Managed Hostingsupports 6 million active users, more than 3.5 million course sites and more than 350 million Internet hits a day during peak activity.
Collectively, more than 2,000 servers are managed daily which monitor over 18,000 services every few minutes, including a broad range of Blackboard software installations and third party services supported by Blackboard Managed Hosting.