JANET(UK) Brokerage

Cloud computing is changing the face of research and education institutions’ IT throughout the UK.

As the sector moves to the cloud, we’re here to help them work with cloud computing providers to find practical solutions to meet individual institution’s needs.

With our help, the sector can realise efficiencies and cost savings only possible through Janet Brokerage’s economies of scale.  We want to help add value to staff and students through improving IT services.

We do this through:

• creating a focused competitive market
• removing the hurdles to cloud adoption
• advocating good practice.

Latest information sheets

Security monitoring for cloud services

When implementing our own, in-house, computer systems, we know that it isn’t sufficient to just build in beautiful security processes and controls and then leave them to work their magic. Good security requires continuous monitoring to determine when those controls need to be adapted to meet new environments or new threats. Monitoring may even be [...]

Research and education glitterati meet to discuss cloud

Thought-leaders in research and education IT management are meeting today to discuss how to move their sector into the cloud with the help of Janet Brokerage. The 13 senior IT managers specially selected from institutions around the UK to join the Janet Brokerage Advisory Board will oversee key decisions for the Brokerage, from acting as [...]

What is there to research in the cloud?

I recently came across this article - €1.2 million research project aims to make Ireland leader in cloud computing It got me thinking and not for the first time, about the differences between research and development. The Irish government believes there are sufficient unknowns in respect of the use of cloud computing for research to be [...]

Cloud computing – a threat or an opportunity?

There is a school of thought that suggests cloud might be a threat to jobs but in my view nothing could be farther from truth. Has anybody in an IT department seen a reducing demand for services, storage and new machines for new applications?  I thought not. Throughout my (very long) career in IT the [...]

Meet us at the UCISA conference

Do you have a burning questions about the Brokerage or are you looking at how to start moving to cloud computing and data centres? Shan Rahulan, Brokerage Manager and Dan Perry, Head of Strategic Business at Janet will be available during the breaks at this year’s UCISA conference in Newport from 14-16 March 2012. If [...]