mattgee The Academic Computing Team have been working over the last year at developing a new, centrally provided computing service for Academics.
The Reading Research Cloud will enable us to automate management processes and make compute, storage and network resources readily available via a Self-Service Portal.
One of the large problems that Academics face is response time for requests. By using the self-service portal academics will be able to consume resources within minutes rather than days. By utilising cloud technologies that remain on site we are able to offer scalability but at reasonable costs.
The service is due to go live in January 2018 and we are currently working with early adopters and beta testers to prepare the service for delivery. If you are interested in becoming an early adopter or beta tester, please contact Ryan Kennedy, Academic Computing Team Manager via r.j.kennedy@reading.ac.uk.
The Academic Computing Team will be releasing more information over the coming months of what to expect when the service goes live.
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