Cloud services for education and research – projects and partners announced
HEFCE and JISC are moving forward in delivering cloud-based services for UK education and research.Since announcing a £12.5 million fund in February that aims to help universities and colleges deliver better value for money by working together more effectively (note 1), HEFCE and JISC are now able to confirm the projects and partners appointed to deliver the two parts of this work: a national cloud infrastructure and supporting services. JANET (UK) will deliver the national brokerage to aid procurement of cloud services between higher education institutions and commercial suppliers and