We know how hard it can be to escape the office so we’ve organised regular online briefings about cloud computing for a technical audience with a Janet connection.

Upcoming online briefings

Soon to be announced

Previous online briefings

Wednesday 28 March, 12.30-1.30pm – How can Janet Brokerage help FE move to the cloud?

Do you want to bid for the Association of College’s funding to help your institution move to the cloud?  Find out how Janet Brokerage can help your transition to the cloud by logging on to a live interview with Shan Rahulan, Brokerage Manager.  If you have any questions to pose to the Brokerage, please send them to brokerage@ja.net or tweet @Janet_Cloud

Thursday 8 March, 12.30-1.30pm – Incident response and cloud computing

Moving to cloud computing can bring about many advantages in terms of flexibility, scalability and other benefits. But have you thought about the security challenges?  In particular, in the event of a security breach how should you deal with the impact?  This talk examines security issues and ways to address them.

Recording coming soon

Wednesday 22 February, 12.30-1.30pm – The Janet Brokerage offering

University Modernisation Fund money helped set up a free independent cloud and data centre Brokerage to help research and education institutions make more use of cloud computing.  In this online briefing, find out what Janet Brokerage is doing for the Janet community and how we might be able to work with you.

Tuesday 7 February, 12.30-1.30pm – Organisational considerations for cloud

Are you thinking of implementing cloud computing within your institution?  This online briefing looks at the key things you need to consider before going ahead and how implementation is achieved in practise.  Hear about the experiences of implementing this from the perspective of a UK higher education institution.

Thursday 2 February, 12.30-1.30pm – Moving staff and student email to the cloud

While cloud student email is widely used, corporate email is less so due to perceived issues with data governance, management and functionality.  View the whitepaper at www.janetbrokerage.ac.uk/info/research

Future online briefings

Want to know more about cloud?  Let us know what you would like us to cover in future online briefings.