Improving Service & Reducing Costs S Y N C E D Project SYNCED Project Who we are • Graeme Tizard – Director of IT, Doncaster College • Rotherham College or Arts and Technology • Thomas Rotherham College • Sheffield College • Barnsley College • Dearne Valley College • Longley Park College Austerity Measures • Government announce real term cuts across all departments • More Efficient • Reduced Overhead • Streamlined Processes • Lower Cost of operations Improving Service & Reducing Costs • SYNCED Project – Removing costs from DR services – Looking beyond the institution to make savings – Collaboration with 7 South Yorkshire Colleges – South Yorkshire Colleges Private “Cloud” – Paving the way to Shared Services Built on existing YHMAN / JANET network Barnsley Doncaster JANET Leeds Sheffield Rotherham Built on existing YHMAN / JANET network Barnsley Doncaster College College Barnsley Doncaster JANET Leeds Sheffield Rotherham Sheffield Rotherham College College Colleges have DR facilities or 3rd Party DR External DR DR Barnsley Doncaster College College Barnsley Doncaster JANET Leeds Sheffield Rotherham Sheffield Rotherham College College DR DR Pooling the Regional DR Resource Barnsley Doncaster College College Barnsley Doncaster JANET DR DR Leeds DR DR Sheffield Rotherham Sheffield Rotherham College College Lower the cost of DR DR DR DR DR DR DR DR DR 7 units of DR become 1 shared unit Costs for DR will REDUCE for each member College DR service ROI will IMPROVE for each member College Use Neighbours Backup Local SVR Coll A Coll B Coll C Coll D Backup Backup Backup Backup Local SVR Local SVR Local SVR Local SVR Use Partner Coll A Coll B Backup Backup Local SVR Local SVR Similar size Colleges Better DR Coll B Backup Local SVR Backup Backup Coll C “Cloud” Backup Local SVR Backup Coll D Local SVR Local SVR Coll A Operational Benefits • Once the Cloud is operational – Devote internal horsepower to support business CLOUD HR Compute Intranet College Compute Enrolment – Shared Services, Support Partners The Technical Slide Backup? How happy would people be using cloud storage for; Disaster Recovery? Business Continuity Plan? SYNCED Project • More Efficient storage of Backup / DR / BCP data • Reduced overhead across partner organisations • Streamlined Processes, peer support • Direct Business Benefits • Lower Cost of operations SYNCED Questions?.