1. Janet Brokerage
AoC November 2012

2. Janet background
• National Research and Education Network
• 100Gb core
• 18 million end users
• Underpins UK research & education

3. Brokerage background
• The Brokerage was set up to:
– Promote the use of cloud and off site data centre facilities
– By reducing the hurdles to adoption
– To create efficiencies (save the sector money)

4. Challenges
• ‘The trough of disillusionment and the slope of enlightenment’

5. Challenges in HE
• Consumer IT is cloud driven
• Student experience is a major business driver
• Cloud adoption and governance is formative
• Technology and purchasing change
• Integrating clouds is not always straightforward
• Fear of vendor lock in

6. Costing IT services

7. Just about cost?
• Is IT an overhead or a service provider driving change?
• Opportunity needs to be considered too:
– Rapid change required
– Skills shortages
– Mergers
– Lack of capital funds

8. Cloud email and collaboration
• Awareness:
– Due diligence paper produced
– Online briefings conducted
• Commercial discussions:
– Feedback from a number of universities
– Collaborative with several institutions and Microsoft
• Significant savings:
– Collective legal and commercial work
– Channelled through Janet Brokerage
• Next steps:
– Formalise the contractual work
– Google Apps for education

9. Find out more
– https://www.ja.net/products-services/janet-brokerage
– Join our community group https://community.ja.net/groups/janet-brokerage
– Twitter http://www.twitter.com/janet_cloud

10. Shan Rahulan
Brokerage@ja.net
Janet, Lumen House
Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford
Didcot, Oxfordshire
t: +44 (0) 1235 822200
f: +44 (0) 1235 822399
e: Service@ja.net