I spent part of last week at Networkshop47 in Nottingham, a Jisc conference predominantly aimed at…
I listened in to a G-Cloud web-cast organised by Intellect earlier this month, the primary intention of which was to provide an update on where things have got to. I use the term ‘update’ loosely because, with the election and change of government and what-not, there…
I wrote a brief update for the FleSSR project blog yesterday, covering some work we did last week at our (relatively new) Swindon Data Centre to build the initial infrastructure for the project’s public cloud. I won’t repeat any of that here but would just…
I’ve been doing some cloud-related (cloudy?) thinking as part of my work on the FleSSR project over the last couple of days, ultimately with the aim of delivering a piece on business models for cloud services (one of the project deliverables) but initially just…
I attended UCISA’s Cloud Computing Seminar last week, a pretty good event overall though, like many ‘cloud’ events, there was quite a mix of IaaS (e.g. Amazon Web Services (AWS)) and SaaS (e.g. Google Apps) presentations so it sometimes felt like the programme was jumping around…
It’s been a while since the HEFCE announcement about UMF and there was quite a…
In my last post I mentioned that there was a ‘Cloud solutions: risk or reward?’ session at the recent JISC Conference in Liverpool. You can watch the three presentations that were made as part of that session by visiting the…
“I know what you’re thinking… but don’t worry, this is a talk on cloud computing and being lost is normal”.
…for public- and third-sector organisations
