Andy PowellinFoundationsImmersive Reader — baby steps towards using the cloud and AI to support readingMicrosoft have recently announced the general availability of Immersive Reader, one of the Azure Cognitive Services. Immersive Reader is…Aug 26, 20201Aug 26, 20201
Andy PowellinFoundationsIf the future of intelligence is artificial, what is education for?I just stumbled across a couple of blog posts by Graham Brown-Martin. The first entitled Why don’t you design a school? —…Aug 15, 2020Aug 15, 2020
Andy PowellinFoundationsCloud connectivity — optimising traffic to Office 365 and remote access to on-prem applicationsWith the move of large numbers of university and college staff and students to working from home there has been a significant shift in…Mar 30, 2020Mar 30, 2020
Andy PowellinFoundationsMicrosoft Azure and Office 365 resourcing issuesAs must be clear to everyone by now, there has been a massive spike in demand for public cloud services since the coronavirus outbreak…Mar 25, 2020Mar 25, 2020
Andy PowellinFoundationsAre you well-architected?If you currently work in a UK university or college, then the chances are that somebody, somewhere in your institution is already a…Dec 18, 2019Dec 18, 2019
Andy PowellinFoundationsAWS silly season — here we goThe 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…Nov 26, 2019Nov 26, 2019
Andy PowellinFoundationsAWS Savings PlansAWS have announced a new pricing feature called Savings Plans, offering a way of saving up to 72% on your compute (EC2 and Fargate) spend…Nov 15, 2019Nov 15, 2019
Andy PowellinFoundationsWorking with the Warwick Employment GroupThe Cloud Solutions team in Jisc works with a variety of members and customers from across education and the wider public- and third…Nov 13, 2019Nov 13, 2019
Andy PowellinFoundationsCloud adoption in UK universitiesI spent part of last week at Networkshop47 in Nottingham, a Jisc conference predominantly aimed at networking people within the UK higher…Apr 17, 2019Apr 17, 2019
Andy PowellinFoundationsPlaying with Perl-based Lambda functionsExperimenting with AWS Lambda layers and custom runtimes to support writing Lambda functions in Perl.Mar 18, 20191Mar 18, 20191
