I just stumbled across a couple of blog posts by Graham Brown-Martin. The first entitled Why don’t you design a school? — https://medium.com/regenerative-global/why-dont-you-design-a-school-19409e6316db and the second entitled University as a Service (UaaS) — https://medium.com/regenerative-global/university-as-a-service-uaas-b729667b216e. Both are wotth reading and both touch on issues related to changes in education due to…

With the move of large numbers of university and college staff and students to working from home there has been a significant shift in traffic flows across Janet. Microsoft have released guidance, How to quickly optimize Office 365 traffic for remote staff & reduce the load on your infrastructure, about…

As must be clear to everyone by now, there has been a massive spike in demand for public cloud services since the coronavirus outbreak first hit us. Microsoft report that whole countries have gone from zero use of cloud to deliver teaching to 100% coverage of cloud-based remote learning in…

If you currently work in a UK university or college, then the chances are that somebody, somewhere in your institution is already a customer of AWS or Microsoft Azure. Maybe both? …

The AWS re:Invent annual conference in Las Vegas kicks-off next week, which means we are about to be snowed under by hundreds of new service announcments, product updates and the like. This year, AWS have started this process slightly early, so as not to overwhelm people during the week of…

AWS have announced a new pricing feature called Savings Plans, offering a way of saving up to 72% on your compute (EC2 and Fargate) spend. Even though I suspect that in most cases the realised savings will be lower than this headline figure, there is no doubt that they will…

The Cloud Solutions team in Jisc works with a variety of members and customers from across education and the wider public- and third- sectors on a variety of projects and activities. For many, our primary focus is to help them with the strategic planning for their IT infrastructure, particularly as…

I spent part of last week at Networkshop47 in Nottingham, a Jisc conference predominantly aimed at networking people within the UK higher and further education communities (UK HE and FE). Networkshop isn’t on my usual list of conferences — I last went in 1987 (to Networkshop15 in Edinburgh I think)…

Like any good Unix sysadmin, I used to spend a lot of my time writing Perl scripts. (Yes, that’s how old I am — I still say Unix rather than Linux). …