Cloud

We act for the whole of UK education and research to bring you competitive cloud solutions, through a range of frameworks together with consultancy to help you achieve your strategic goals.

How we can help you

Consultancy and support

Our bespoke consultancy services will help you to fully understand your organisation’s current digital capability and business processes and articulate your vision of an ideal IT environment.

The aim is to formulate a coherent strategy for cloud adoption and develop a transformation roadmap.

Services

Cloud consultancy
Guidance with using the cloud to achieve wider digital goals
Infrastructure review
Helps you assess the capability and effectiveness of your current infrastructure
Financial X-ray
Determines the overall cost and uses detailed benchmarking against peers to assess the effectiveness of your IT services

Backup and storage

Cloud storage lets you access data from anywhere, any time, while cloud site recovery helps you protect important applications.

Services

Access:

Arkivum offline data archiving solution
- via our data archiving framework
Amazon Web Services such as S3, Glacier, and EBS
Microsoft Azure storage (Blobs, Table, Queue and Files) as well as Backup and Site Recovery
Storage solutions from original cloud providers - CloudSigma, Dimension Data and Interoute

- all via the GÉANT IaaS framework

Computing resources

Deploy in the cloud via virtual machines and benefit from unlimited high-performance computing resources, NoSQL and SQL database services.

Services

Access:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Relational Database Service (RDS)
Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VM) and VM Scale Sets
CloudSigma VMs: Uni Lab and Research Lab
Computing resources from other original cloud providers - Dimension Data and Interoute

- all via the GÉANT IaaS framework

Direct connectivity

Cost-effective, reliable and resilient connectivity to Azure – via the Janet Network and Microsoft’s Azure connection service, ExpressRoute.

Services

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute

Networking / infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

Create private networks in the cloud with full control over IP addresses, DNS servers, security rules and traffic flows.

Services

Access:

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing and Route 53
Microsoft Azure products - Load Balancer ,Virtual Network and Active Directory
Networking services from original cloud providers - CloudSigma, Dimension Data and Interoute

- all via the GÉANT IaaS framework

Software as a service (SaaS)

Includes office applications, joint collaboration platforms, file sync and share and secure access management.

Services

Board and committee papers framework
Liberate
Microsoft Office 365
G Suite for Education (formerly Google Apps for Education

Shared data centres (north and south)

A cost-effective solution for UK research and education through the co-location of systems and services.

Services

Shared data centre

Telephony and videoconferencing

Purchase telephony equipment through suppliers directly connected to the Janet Network and experience seamless videoconferencing.

Services

Telephony purchasing service
Vscene

Frameworks

Purchasing services through our GÉANT IaaS framework and data archiving framework will give you access to a wide range of cloud suppliers, and their products, at specially-negotiated rates. You'll also benefit from a pre-negotiated call-off agreement that applies to all suppliers on the framework. See all of our frameworks.