Echo360 and University of London Computer Centre announce hosting partnership

UK institutions gain safe, reliable hosting of valuable educational content

London, UK - 28 July 2011: ULCC, the largest provider of managed and supported virtual learning environments for the UK education sector, today announced an agreement to provide a hosted solution for Echo360 clients in the United Kingdom.

The arrangement enables institutions to securely manage, store and publish content created with Echo360, the global leader in campus-wide blended learning and lecture capture solutions, in the cloud. Higher education and further education institutions can quickly start and scale lecture capture without worrying about backend infrastructure or on-premise technology integration.

“The most scalable and reliable solution for blended learning is now paired with the most reliable solution for hosting dedicated to the UK Education Sector,” said Fred Singer, CEO of Echo360. “The ULCC and Echo360 partnership allows our UK clients to seamlessly grow their use of lecture capture without worrying about the technology details.”

UK institutions are increasingly transitioning lecture capture from a pilot to an institution-wide service, raising student expectations for availability. Echo360 clients can ensure round-the-clock access to the recordings by leveraging ULCC hosting and the organisation’s 99.9% service availability record. The growing number of recordings also introduces capacity challenges for the schools. This arrangement allows technical staff to quickly scale their storage without deploying onsite solutions.

ULCC is the UK’s largest provider of managed and supported virtual learning environments for education. It now hosts and supports Moodle instances for close to 200 Higher and Further Education institutions, helping over 700,000 students perform in excess of 10 million online learning activities per month.

Through this agreement, institutions can host both their blended learning solution and virtual learning environment through a single provider.

“The partnership with Echo360 further extends our portfolio of technology services for learning and illustrates our commitment to support and integrate best-of-breed products to meet the needs of our customers,” said Richard Maccabee, Director of ULCC. “Our purpose built data centre combined with our hosting expertise will provide Echo360 customers with a secure, stable and scalable infrastructure to deliver blended learning – anytime, anywhere.”

To find out more about the ULCC/Echo360 hosting partnership, please visit: http://bit.ly/Echo360ULCC

For more information about the ULCC/Echo360 partnership please contact:

Frank Steiner

Marketing Manager

University of Loncon Computer Centre

f.steiner at ulcc.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7863 1322