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Welcome

Welcome to the NET+ Kion wiki! Kion, one of the leading cloud enablement solution providers, has joined the NET+ Services portfolio. Research and Education institutions can use Kion for Automation & Orchestration, Financial Management, and Continuous Compliance for cloud enablement across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Kion entered into the NET+ Service Evaluation process in May, 2022 and an agreement was signed in October 2022. Read about the process that surfaced this innovative product to the community and the work that has been done to launch the newest member of the NET+ portfolio.

An October 2022 webinar provided an overview of the service evaluation process and launched this new NET+ offering. Watch the recording and review the slides in the webinar folder.

Email netplus@internet2.edu to request documentation to review or to start the procurement process.

Participate in our Subscriber Community

Email discussion list and Slack

Institutions participating in the NET+ Kion program may take advantage of our email discussion list and Slack channel to communicate with peer institutions, receive curated program updates and participate in other activities and events. 

Service Advisory Board (limited to subscribers to the NET+ Kion program)

The NET+ Kion Service Advisory Board will kick off upon sufficient addition of subscribers.

Community Resources

Service Documentation and Resources

Accessibility: VPAT (available upon request)

Identity: Campus Identity Guidance

Information Security:

  1. HECVAT (Available upon request. Email sales@kion.io)
  2. Kion Privacy Policy

Contract and Pricing: Email netplus@internet2.edu to request documentation to review or to start the procurement process

NET+ Kion Early Adopter Group

  • James Bennett, Indiana University
  • Matthew Rich, Northwestern University
  • Rick Rhoades, Penn State University
  • Mark Ratliff, Princeton University
  • Todd Haddaway, University of Maryland - Baltimore County
  • Bill Bonner, Washington State University
  • Bob Flynn, Internet2 (staff support)
  • Randy Shore, Kion (partner liaison) 

NET+ Kion Evaluation Participants (Leads)

  • Rick Rhoades, Penn State University (sponsor)
  • Rob Larmon, Loyola Marymount University
  • Erik Lundberg, University of Washington
  • Tim Champ, University of Maryland Baltimore County
  • Stephen Adalpe, University of Chicago
  • Sam Porter, University of Maryland
  • Kyle Weeks, University of Minnesota
  • Matthew Rich, Northwestern University
  • Mark Ratliff, Princeton University
  • Andrew Marcontelli, Texas A&M University
  • James Bennett, Indiana University
  • Gus Mamakos, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Program Manager: Bob Flynn bflynn@internet2.edu 

To Contact the Service Evaluation group

Email: Internet2 Program Development Manager Tara Gyenis tgyenis@internet2

Questions about the Program?

Service and Program Posts and Recordings

  • Higher-ed-focused Kion Product Demo (recording) - Jan 11, 2022
  • NET+ Kion Service Evaluation recap and program release (slides and recording) - Oct 18, 2022
  • Kion Checks All the Boxes blog post about the community need that led Internet2 to engage with Kion. - Oct 3, 2022
  • Achieving Multi-Cloud Control and the Freedom to Innovate - A webinar by Washington State University and Princeton describing how they are using Kion to bring order to their multi-cloud environments (slides and recording) - Mar 1, 2023


 





Service Evaluation

Twelve geographically diverse, public and private universities, completed the evaluation of a number of aspects of the Kion offering, with a focus on capabilities provided in their offering and priorities identified by the service evaluation team. These areas included:

  • Developed a business model that helps institutions manage budgets and the current economic climate
  • Building scalable higher education specific contractual terms and pricing
Status by CategoryStatus Indicator% Complete

Status

InitiationG100%The service evaluation kicked off on May 11, 2022
Functional AssessmentG100%

Functional Assessment workgroup began its work on June 2, 2022. The final report and assets are here:

SecurityG100%

Security Assessment workgroup began its work in July 2022. Work in progress. The final report is available here: NET+ Kion Security & Compliance Evaluation Summary

AccessibilityG100%

Accessibility Assessment workgroup began its work on July 2022. The final report is available here: NET+ Kion Accessibility Evaluation

Identity IntegrationG100%

Identity integration workgroup kicked off in July 2022. Work in progress. The final report is available here: Campus Identity Guidance for NET+ Kion

Network IntegrationG100%Not Applicable

Business & Legal

G100%

Business & Legal workgroup kicked off on July 21, 2022.