Education MARKET REPORT
“We are lucky that we have an established tradition of distance learning through the Open University. But
adopting this within mainstream Education has still been one of the biggest mass shifts in the fundamentals of
learning in UK educational history.” Nigel Dunn, Managing Director EMEA North - Jabra
they want, and need, to get to.
As a channel partner devoted
to meeting the needs of the
education sector, Evoke has
unfortunately spoken to many
establishments that have made
regret-purchases thinking they
were the right choice. Often this
has led to them having to devise
their future strategy around
the previously bad, and often
expensive, purchase that doesn’t
do what they ideally need it to
do as they don’t have enough
budget to rip it out and start
again.”
Iain Sinnott, Sales and
Marketing Director at VanillaIP
commented “I see no reason why
this sector will di er from any
other post COVID-19. e sta ,
governors and business managers
have experienced the power and
exibility of virtual meeting
tools, as well as the limitation
of legacy solutions. Already
motivated by the need to
innovate, I see this sector as rich
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Nigel Dunn, Managing Director EMEA North at Jabra
support the most vulnerable
children.
en there is preparing for
lockdown to be lifted and
making decisions about what
will the classroom post Autumn
2020 onwards look like.”
Nigel Dunn, Managing
Director EMEA North at Jabra
said “ e rules of schooling
have fundamentally changed.
Schools and universities will face
new challenges on the rules of
social interaction and distancing
if, and when, they do allow
children back into school.
We are lucky that we have an
established tradition of distance
learning through the Open
University. But adopting this
within mainstream Education
has still been one of the biggest
mass shifts in the fundamentals
of learning in UK educational
history.
Millions of students, teachers
and lecturers are now home
schooling. at places a huge
strain on people, technology and
hardware resources, especially
for cash-strapped schools.
Children from disadvantaged
backgrounds will also struggle to
get hold of the right equipment
needed for distance learning and
the infrastructure to dial in to
remote lessons.”
Forced Digital Disruption
e sector has clearly had to
force some technology decisions
in a hurry which may have
worked in the short-term. In the
long-term these institutions will
surely look more closely at what
their requirements are?
Wardell said, “One principal
of a college in Leicester, where
we have recently implemented
an Avaya server edition solution,
was adamant it would never have
the need for homeworking and
remote learning as she didn’t
believe in it and couldn’t see any
value. When lockdown hit and
Evoke o ered the college the
DDoS attacks on the rise
Kaspersky’s Q1 2020 DDoS attacks report revealed notable growth
in attacks on educational resources and cities’ offi cial websites. In
Q1 2020, this number tripled compared to the same period in 2019.
The share of such attacks amounted to 19% of the total number of
incidents in Q1 2020.
Kaspersky experts suggest that the growth in attackers’
interest is caused by the fact that people are becoming more
reliant on these online resources remaining stable and accessible
during the outbreak. If they have seen confl icting messages about
the virus and what preventive measures can be taken, people may
look at offi cial sources of information for more assured guidance.
Many schools and universities have also shifted to online lessons.
“Outage of internet services can be especially challenging for
businesses now, because this is often the only way to make goods
and services available to their customers. In addition, widespread
adoption of remote working opens new vectors for those
responsible for carrying out DDoS attacks. Previously most attacks
were conducted against the public-facing resources of companies.
We now see that DDoS attacks target internal infrastructure
elements, for example, corporate VPN gateways or email servers,”
comments Alexey Kiselev, Business Development Manager on the
Kaspersky DDoS Protection team.
free 90-day Avaya Spaces trial,
she went from taking one room
to deploying 141 Avaya Spaces
rooms for every single one of her
teaching and support sta . Now
she can’t live without it.
Digital disruption typically
marks changes in consumer
need. ere is now a paradigm
shift in the education vertical.
A fundamental change has
happened without anyone’s
control or choice. is change
has driven a new agenda for
all future conversations. ese
exciting new conversations open
opportunities for vendors and
resellers that can cater for the
whole end-to-end technology
need, both on and o the
campus.”
Wardell continued,
“Developing a disruptive
strategy for an educational
establishment starts with
making the innovation relevant
to where they are on their
journey right now and where
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