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…2 min read·Aug 26, 2020--1--1
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? —…4 min read·Aug 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…2 min read·Mar 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…3 min read·Mar 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…2 min read·Dec 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…3 min read·Nov 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…1 min read·Nov 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…3 min read·Nov 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…9 min read·Apr 17, 2019----
Andy PowellinFoundationsPlaying with Perl-based Lambda functionsExperimenting with AWS Lambda layers and custom runtimes to support writing Lambda functions in Perl.6 min read·Mar 18, 2019--1--1