eduserv cloud services
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Ed Zedlewski CIO of Eduserv spoke at the CCitDG cloud day about our cloud services.TRANSCRIPT
Eduserv Cloud Services
Ed Zedlewski, CIO
Who we are
• Not-for-profit IT services integrator
• Managed services track record
• Registered charity & SME
• We help „public good‟ organisations make better
use of IT
Being a not-for-profit means
• We can put the customer ahead of profit
• We can have a more flexible approach to pricing
• We can take a long term partnership view
• We prioritise customers who are dedicated to the
public good
Our services for charities
• Identity and Access Management (OpenAthens)
• Web development
• Data centre, hosting and cloud services
• Professional services
What we do – Internet Services
Services delivered from• Our purpose built Data Centre
• highly secure facility
• owned by Eduserv
• UK sovereignty
• Tier III facility in Swindon
• secondary DC‟s in Slough & London
• Carrier neutral telecomms with diversity
• Capacity & power for >600 racks
• Green design: PUE <1.5
Our customers include
Supplier partnerships
• Microsoft Gold Partner
• vCloud Powered VMware Partner
• Cisco Partner
• HP Business Partner
• Sitecore Certified Solution Partner
Now about this cloud stuff…
Cloud benefits
• Elasticity of compute, storage and bandwidth
• Reduced IT estate and carbon footprint
• Rapid service provisioning
• Reduced TCO
Cloud reality• Cloud services solve real business problems today
• Big IT problems are difficult to solve - whether in the
cloud or on premise
• Specialist skills are needed to realise the full benefits
• Information security
• Networking
• Cloud platform and virtualisation administration
Eduserv Cloud services
• Community Cloud
• Private Cloud
• IL3 Secure Cloud
• File Storage
• Cloud migration
• Professional services
How we build Cloud infrastructure
• Using best of breed technologies
• Security designed in (not bolted on)
• Designed and built to be highly resilient (no SPOF)
• High performance (10G+) and highly scalable
• Cisco UCS blades
• EMC and NetApp storage
• Cisco, Juniper & CheckPoint networking and security
How we work
• Understanding your business needs
• Assess security requirements and risks
• Building coherent strategies and plans
• Migration & implementation services
• Delivering pragmatic & cost effective IT solutions
• Working with partners and SI‟s as necessary
Delivery and Operations• Formal methodologies employed with pragmatism
• Project Management - PRINCE2, Agile (SCRUM)
• ITIL certified staff and culture
• We apply best fit for customers!
• PAS 99:2006, BS ISO 9001, BS ISO 14001, BS ISO
18001, BS ISO 27001
• Government Information Security Management
• Long-term partnership approach with customers
• Virtualised and rationalised hosting
• Single contract for BIS and partners
• Migrated multiple BIS partners to shared
virtualised platform
• Saving more than £4million
• Ready for Cloud
Customer example
“We are delighted with the
new website. It’s been built
to contain an enviable
amount of flexibility, usability
and control.”Neil Williams, Head of Digital
Communications
Delivering cost savings of £2.5M on web development
and management and £2.8M on hosting over 4 years
Delivering transformation
• Developed content repository that
serves content from multiple sources
to multiple sites and channels
• Enabled website consolidation from
over 100 different sites into
education.gov.uk
• Strategic hosting provider including
migration of applications from 5 DfE
Arms Length Bodies onto our
managed application platforms.
“Eduserv, the not for profit technology
developer for the education sector, fared
better than its rivals with a 67% increase in
spend from the Department for Education”The Guardian, December 2011
“Eduserv has worked tirelessly to understand our needs,
translating these requirements into functionality within Sitecore.”
Roger Donald, Associate Director Multi-Channel
NHS wanted to:
• Enable more patients to address
symptoms online
• Ensure managing content was
quick and easy for its staff
• Improve look and feel of its health
& symptom checkers
• Understand complex patient
journeys & fine tune over time
• Syndicate its HaSCs to other
channels – partners & mobile
Case study• Clients existing DC‟s full
• Also has too many DC‟s post merger
• Huge IT systems/application legacy
• Major consolidation needed to save cost
• The management of IL3 information
• Partner with Eduserv
• Implement private IL3 Cloud and integrate on-net
• UK data centre and data sovereignty
• Reduce risks
• Client focus on business problems; Eduserv focus on
operational management and project delivery
• Cloud consumption model
• Deliver LoB Microsoft SharePoint solution
The solution
Logical Overview
A logical view of
components.
Service models and service
catalogue to enable
consumption of services
from IaaS layer up.
Business applications
delivered via consumption of
a range of services inc.
IaaS, PaaS, Service
Management & Security at
enterprise service levels.
Eduserv (Secondary)
DR Site
London
North UK
Adaptable Cloud services
• Service levels to suit different requirements
• Security models to meet government standards
• Reservation, Allocation and Consumption based
pricing
• Cloud migration support services
• Optional DR
Cloud migration service
• Migration discovery and planning
• Agree risk profile and security model
• Migration of existing services
• Physical & virtual
• Service integration
• Testing and validation
Why Eduserv?• Open and agile
• Public sector specialists
• Flexibility & Innovation vs. Commodity
• Track record in managing complex projects and working
with multiple partners
• 20+ years integration and hosting expertise
• Not-for-profit company
• Trusted Partner