Productivity Suite – Email, Calendar, Scheduling Solutions
ORION’s first Productivity Suite Partner, Scalar Decisions, provides a managed implementation of the world-class VMWare Zimbra service offering. Zimbra features an email solution plus collaboration tools that are 100% Canadian hosted and operated.
Data Backup and Recovery
ORION enables research and education institutions to leverage their connection to the ORION backbone combined with access to Storagepipe Solutions‘s deployment of IBM Tivoli Storage Management. ORION connected institutions can back up terabytes of their most crucial data in a robust and highly secure digital environment.
Video Sharing and Archiving
In conjunction with FileMobile, ORION offers the Media Factory digital platform to meet the specific needs of the research and education community for the development, sharing and consumption of rich media.
Managed Hosting
Radiant Communications is ORION’s first Managed Hosting partner for larger scale data applications, and ORION hosts smaller scale data applications in our own data center.
Collaboration Tools
Through our Canadian-based partner IGLOO Software, ORION offers a customizable collaboration tool for members called “O3 at ORION”. O3 provides members with a virtual space to discover and connect with peers, share knowledge, and collaborate privately while utilizing a powerful suite of tools and resources.
Educational Content
Through the ORION Nebula, educators from all levels of Ontario’s education system can access rich educational content from internationally renowned partners Desire2Learn and Learn360. Additionally, provincial partners such as the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (TVO) and La Télévision Francophone en Ontario (TFO) have made their own educational content available to educators province-wide through the ORION Cloud.
