A presentation by Andy Powell, Cloud chief technology officer, Jisc for Networkshop47.

1. • Public Sector Cloud Adoption Report
• Eduserv & Socitm – Sept 2018
• Based on the 633 responses received
from UK local councils, HE institutions,
public bodies and emergency services
“Universities and public bodies, which are
mainly driven by scalability and agility, are
the first and second heaviest cloud
adopters in the public sector – 36% and
29% of cloud usage, respectively”

2. Building the modern institution: how Jisc
can support your cloud-based digital
transformation
Andy Powell – Cloud CTO, Jisc

3. The use of
digital
technology to
transform the
way an
organisation
does its
business
What is Digital Transformation / the Modern Institution?
Modern Workplace Modern Institution
• More agility
• Flexible working
• More innovation
• Better teamwork
• Greater collaboration
• Ultimately… serving
customers better
• Student experience
• Flexible delivery of
teaching and learning
• Better learning
outcomes
• Student retention
• Research efficiency
• Intelligent campus
• Using data to drive
decision-making

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

5. None of this is really about technology
Digital
transformation
Cloud adoption

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

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

8. 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

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

10. Culture
EatsStrategy
For Breakfast
Peter Drucker

11. Oh, yes… and finally the technology.
You are going to have to think about the
technology!

12. The Gartner 5 Rs…
Replacing by
SaaS
Refactoring /
Rebuilding
using native
cloud features
Rehosting in
a lift-and-shift
type operation

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

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

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

16. Start
with
why
Simon Sinek

17. So…
how can Jisc
help?
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18. Jisc Cloud Solutions: Our capability
Assessment &
strategy
Optimisation &
support
Implementation
Consultancy Professional Services Managed Services
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
AWS, Azure and Office 365 (including re-sell via G-Cloud)

19. Complementary Jisc services
Intelligent
campus
Connectivity
Cyber
security
Access
management
Learning
analytics
Student
experience

20. Summary
• 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
• Jisc can help you with a range of consultancy, professional
services, managed services and public cloud re-sell

21. Thank you