1. GEANT IaaS Framework and Cloud Experience - UK
Jessica Wu, Cloud Services Group Manager

2. Jisc’s evolving role in supporting our members…..
Now
2019
Jisc Cloud Solutions:
Consultancy, Professional Services & Managed Services
Cloud services provider on the UK G-Cloud 11
2018
MS O365 and Google for Education amendments,
AWS and some SaaS frameworks
Adoption of the GEANT IaaS Framework
(Referrer)
Cloud Consultancy Service
Jisc/Eduserv merger
AWS, Azure and O365 reseller
2017

3. Jisc Cloud Solutions: Our capability
Assessment & strategy
Implementation
Optimisation & support
What are we trying to achieve?
How ready are we?
What’s our cloud strategy?
What cloud services should we use?
How do we design a robust solution?
How do we make sure it is secure?
How do we keep things running smoothly?
How do we keep it secure?
How do we minimise our spend?
How do we track new features
Consultancy
Professional Services
Managed Services
AWS, Azure & Office 365 (inc. re-sell via G-Cloud & GÉANT)

4. Members’ activity with GÉANT IaaS framework
Expression of Interest 48
Signed up to Jisc access agreement 27
Supplier selected and purchase made 8
A total spend of £632,245

5. Benefits of the cloud and frameworks
UKAEA - a member story
Why cloud –
To meet increasing demand for computational resources more cost effectively
To extend the local capacity flexibly without being tied into a single provider
About framework –
Allows us to more flexibly buy a smaller amount of resource as and when needed, vs buy a heavy chunk upfront and risk not using them all

6. Adopting Cloud is not simply a purchase ….
First you need to resolve:
Strategic direction
Financial situation
Your ‘customers’ needs and expectations - (staff, researchers, students)
Cultural fit
The use of digital technology to transform the way an organisation does its business

7. A typical digital transformation journey

8. An approach to digital transformation
Understand what you are trying to achieve
Understand your culture and appetite for change
Understand your compelling events
Understand your stakeholders
Understand your application estate

9. What are you trying to achieve?
More control / up-skilling
Greater agility
Cost savings
New ways of working
Improved research outcomes
Better student experience

10. What are your compelling events?
Data centre closure?
Hardware end of life?
Support end of life?
These are usually poor drivers of transformation

11. Understand your estate
Applications, applications, applications
Work with your software vendors
Don’t get bogged down in the details of your infrastructure too early
At some stage you will need that detail
But don’t let the infrastructure tail wag the application dog

12. Understand your stakeholders
Students
Postgrads
Staff (lecturers & researchers)
Senior management
IT staff

13. Culture
Eats
Strategy
For Breakfast
Peter Drucker

14. Thinking about the Technology
Replacing by SaaS
Refactoring / Rebuilding using native cloud features
Rehosting in a lift-and-shift type operation

15. Or, to put it another way
SaaS
before
PaaS
before
IaaS

16. On-premise / colocation
The hybrid question… ?
Public Cloud
On-premise / colocation

17. All that other technology stuff…
Connectivity
Security
Data protection
Managing spend
Up-skilling
Etc.

18. Summary
Jisc can help our members with a range of consultancy, professional services, managed services and public cloud re-sell
Frameworks offer members agility, flexibility, cost effectiveness and compliance
Digital transformation is at least as much about leadership and culture as it is about technology
Therefore need to start with understanding why you want to change
Adopting public cloud is a common consequence of digital transformation but is not a driver of change in its own right

19. Thank you