Thursday 14 April 2011


OUCS wins £1.2million for cloud project - VIDaaS[
It was announced today that OUCS has won funding of £1.2million to develop the VIDaaS Project - Virtual Infrastructure with Database as a Service. This Project will provide a local virtual infrastructure (VI) which will interface with a national Higher Education VI - or 'cloud' - to enable the sharing of services across the whole HE sector. As a result there will be substantial cost savings through economies of scale. The virtual infrastructure will host a self-service 'Database as a Service' (DaaS) system which will help improve the efficiency of UK Higher Education research. Members of the team are shown above.


Friday 1 April 2011

A revised Government IT Strategy was published on Wednesday 30 March 2011.

One quarter of the document (Part 2) is focused on 'Creating a common ICT infrastructure', within which the cloud features strongly as well as 'common technology standards' and 'interoperability enabled by open standards'. There is also a new proposed governance structure (Part 4).

Does any of this have relevance to Higher Education IT Strategy do you think?