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Following the recent Court of Justice of the European Union's judgement on 'Safe Harbour' arrangements for the transfer of personal data from the EEA to the USA, Jisc has produced this note for institutions.
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Jisc recently carried out a study to investigate whether cloud based systems and services can meet the needs of the education sector and also to determine the level of interest from the sector.
The results can be found here and if you scroll to the bottom of that page you can find the raw, anonymised data. 38 HE organisations and 37 FE providers took part in the survey.
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ENISA’s new report proposing a "Security Framework for Governmental Clouds" may be more widely useful than its title and explicit scope suggest.
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Cloud technology provides many more opportunities for innovation than the stereotypes suggest, says Andrew Cormack, in the Ed Technology article published on 17/4/2015. Read the article at Cloud is... Or is it?
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What is the cloud?
Cloud computing is the delivery of IT as services over the internet. Cloud users don't need to purchase or install software and companies don't have to run their own application and data servers; the cloud service providers ("CSPs") host applications and provide the computing power from their data centres.
What are the benefits and disadvantages of using the cloud?
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Find out what Dell can offer you through the Janet Cloud and Data Centre Framework int he document above.
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Andrew Cormack has been asked a few times recently how to decide which data or services it's appropriate to place in the cloud. The answer, rather boringly, is the same as for almost any other security question:
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Cloud, nothing very new in that, clouds with pay as you go timesharing services attached were a common picture in slide shows as far back as the 1970s. However new technology makes it a whole lot easier and quicker to move from ideas on a slide to a powerful service reality. All very good but no service will manage itself, service management demands won't disappear and it is still necessary to deal with security, resilience and performance not to mention migration from one provider to another.
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Latest cloud news from Janet
Welcome to our first newsletter with the latest cloud computing news for the research and education sector.
If you have a suggestion as to what you would like to see featured in a future issue or other feedback, please email brokerage@ja.net
Please also pass this on to colleagues you feel would be interested.
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Here you can find answers to some of the common questions about our Cloud and Data Centre Framework. If there's something missing, please feel free to comment below to ask.
Why should I use the framework rather than do my own procurement?
