Cloud Services
Utilise data to deliver improved business operations and students experiences
Cloud solutions significantly enhance the flexibility, scalability and accessibility of learning environments in the education sector to meet evolving student expectations. They facilitate seamless collaboration among students and educators through shared documents, online platforms and virtual classrooms, fostering interactive and engaging learning experiences. By providing secure and reliable access to resources from anywhere, cloud technology empowers educators to adapt to diverse student needs and deliver high-quality education in an increasingly digital world.
Adopting a hybrid cloud strategy could provide a balanced approach to cloud adoption for education institutions, offering robust data protection and the advantages of cloud technology.
As a leading digital services and solutions provider, SCC can provide education institutions with a range of advanced cloud services that are designed to help you drive your business forward with innovation. From consultative engagements to trusted managed services across cloud platform, data analytics, app innovation and artificial intelligence, SCC can support you wherever you are on your digital journey.
Many education institutions are looking to modernise their legacy infrastructure to enhance operational efficiency, improve security and meet evolving student demands. Legacy systems often lack the flexibility and scalability needed to support new technologies and regulatory requirements, making them more vulnerable to cyber threats and operational disruptions.
Modern infrastructure enables institutions to better leverage data analytics, AI and cloud technologies, providing tailored and efficient services to students while ensuring compliance with stringent security and regulatory standards.
SCC help education institutions to invest in scalable cloud platforms to migrate and modernise their infrastructure, setting you up for a successful future in the cloud. Our team of experts will consult with you on the best way forward using our pathfinder engagements to ensure you’re on the right track to success.
Hybrid cloud allows education providers to centralise the management of their IT environments, making it easier to implement security measures like encryption and access control across the entire cloud infrastructure. This approach mitigates the complexity and visibility issues associated with mixed architectures. Additionally, hybrid cloud solutions ensure educators comply effectively with changing regulations, providing greater protection and security than traditional on-premises data management.
By leveraging SCC’s hybrid cloud offering, education institutions can achieve digital resilience, benefiting from the cloud's advantages while ensuring the necessary levels of security and governance.
Cloud platforms enable the rapid deployment of applications and services, allowing education providers to quickly adapt to market changes and launch new software to enhance learning environments. By leveraging cloud-based data analytics and AI, they can gain deeper insights into student behaviour, enhance fraud detection and personalise services, leading to improved student experiences and operational efficiencies.
Additionally, cloud platforms facilitate experimentation and collaboration, providing a test environment for new ideas without significant upfront investment. This fosters a culture of innovation, encouraging continuous improvement and agility. Through the integration of APIs and microservices, educators can seamlessly connect various systems and leverage third-party services to build comprehensive, innovative solutions that meet modern student demands and regulatory requirements.
As a leading cloud partner, SCC will help you uncover these benefits and foster a culture of innovation, driving the success of your institution through technology.
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SCC took a service-oriented approach to solution design, focusing on understanding the University's business needs and desired outcomes. They mapped the platform’s characteristics—resilience, performance, and availability—to incorporate the functional elements required to exceed expectations. Being vendor agnostic, SCC were able to better assess UoB’s requirements against the most appropriate technology solutions. SCC delivered a solution of a core IT services database and general-purpose VMware server platform using Synergy BL460 Gen10 and ProLiant DL Gen10.
UoB set out the initial test plan and collaborated with SCC on the final version for both functional and non-functional tests. A key acceptance criterion was service continuity—ensuring workloads could shift to surviving local nodes during host or network failures, and enabling full failover in the event of a data centre outage.
The solution also included HPE Complete Care support as part of a Greenlake as a Service model. This service is designed to help improve the stability and operation of converged infrastructure platforms, such as HPE Synergy, to achieve better business outcomes. This was pivotal to the implementation as the many components of the complex converged and virtualised environment needed to work effectively together. This approach reduces support issues and calls that arise from platform and multi-vendor integration issues.
The HPE Complete Care service was a major reason the solution was selected to support devices in this environment. It provided the support to cover servers, operating systems, hypervisors, storage, storage area networks (SANs) and networks.
The Greenlake as a Service wrap allows UOB to scale their services with a “change order”—avoiding the need to tender and reducing the Capex burden by topping up the service as needed.
Unlike Public Cloud as a Service models, UoB also avoided expensive Egress charges, as the service is delivered On-prem in their data centre, and there were no penalties for terminating on the contract at the end of the pre-agreed term, thus avoiding Vendor lock-in.
