Cloud professional services
Take advantage of our hands-on cloud capabilities to solve a range of short-term and long-term challenges.
Cloud technologies can help you to enable digital change for the benefit of staff and students – transforming your organisation as you move closer to Education 4.0.
If you’re planning a cloud implementation or you’ve already migrated services to a new environment, our cloud professional services can help. Offering hands-on technical and strategic expertise, we can help you tackle short-term projects or major infrastructure migrations to the public cloud or hybrid cloud.
Professional services
To help you achieve your goals, we offer a range of hands-on services. These include migrating workloads to services such as Office 365, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure; designing and deploying new environments; re-architecting existing ones; or optimising services so they meet your needs.
Security reviews
An increasing number of cyber-attacks are targeting cloud tenancies, which can lead to expensive work for organisations to get back to normal. Never mind the damage these attacks have on company reputations. Jisc can assist in mitigating cyber-attacks through our security services.
Our security services consist of a security strategy based on an in-depth approach, and comprehensive security reviews.
The Jisc security team base their analysis and any remedial work on the latest Microsoft, AWS, Google, NCSC and CIS best practices, so that your tenancy will be set to the very latest configuration ensuring the best security.
Our security reviews are offered against the following cloud tenancies:
- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
Teams phone system
Our M365 team can help you integrate your operational and teaching staff by configuring Teams to provide a unified communications ecosystem.
Teams phone system provides features such as:
- Make and answer calls
- Merge calls
- Transfer and ring back
- Transfer calls between devices
- Voicemail
- Call transcribing
- Auto attendance
Our M365 team will work with you to determine which Teams configuration is suitable for your needs and to raise your Microsoft Teams skills and capabilities, so that you are confident in making further configuration changes in the future.
Teams phone system can be easily integrated with our session border controller to provide a modern digital telephony solution.
M365 services
Our M365 consultants, architects and engineers can help you successfully deliver M365 projects, such as SharePoint intranets, Teams configuration, Intune, conditional access, multi-factor authentication (MFA), BYOD and the implementation of your requirements to satisfy your Cyber Essentials targets. We can also help your organisation make the most effective use of M365 capabilities available to your licence.
We can also help your organisation make the most effective use of M365 capabilities available to your licence, so you can maximise ROI. We also offer services that optimise your M365 Defender configuration, which will enhance your security posture; ultimately protecting you from advanced threats.
M365 migrations
If you wish to migrate from on-premises to M365, we can help with this, for example, migrating from file storage into OneDrive or Teams and moving from MS Exchange to M365 Exchange. We can also help your organisation to merge your M365 tenants.
Architectural reviews
Our Azure and AWS architects are available to review and provide recommendations to improve the state and optimisation of your cloud. They can point out where you can make efficiencies and help understand your operational needs and translate how Azure and/or AWS can help achieve them.
Architectural design
Our architects will take your requirements and use their knowledge of AWS and Azure to create specific designs, helping you to modernise and adopt cloud capabilities so that you achieve your strategic goals and efficiencies.
Migration into Azure or AWS
When you are ready to move from on-premises or co-located datacentres, we can discuss your requirements and work with you to create and execute a planned migration that suits your operations.
Read our member story about Rochford District Council, which set about migrating their servers to Azure, bringing the total number down to 70 from 200 and reducing operational costs at the same time.
Case study: Godalming College bolsters its Microsoft 365 cloud tenancy against cyber-attacks
With cyber-attacks on large organisations grabbing headlines throughout 2023, Godalming College’s IT staff felt the time was right for an expert security review. They asked our cloud experts to explore their M365 set-up and recommend actions to keep their defences strong.
Need help managing payments for our services?
Did you know you our customers can make pre-payments for Jisc cloud products and services ahead of the time they wish to use them, they can then ‘draw down’ against the pre-payment to be applied to Jisc invoices for completed projects involving Jisc products or services.
Jisc is a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s G-Cloud framework. Purchasing services through the framework can offer significant savings.
ISO certification
This service is included within the scope of our ISO9001 and ISO27001 certificates.
