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Jisc Digital Sustainability Newsletter #2

Welcome to the eagerly anticipated second edition of the Jisc Digital Sustainability Newsletter where each month we explore the latest news, trends and insights in the intersection between technology and environmental sustainability.   Be sure to subscribe to our DIGITAL-SUSTAINABILITY JiscMail mailing list to be notified about the release future editions of the Digital Sustainability Newsletter.    […]

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Jisc Digital Sustainability Newsletter #1

Welcome to the very first edition of the Jisc Digital Sustainability Newsletter. Each month we’ll be your guide through the latest news, trends and insights in the intersection of sustainability and digital technology. Digital Sustainability at Jisc: Here’s a quick update on some of the digital sustainability support projects currently underway at Jisc: Launch of […]

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Planning the higher-level documentation for your disaster recovery plan.

Should your organisation choose to produce their business continuity management system using the ISO 22301 standard for either accreditation (as required by the Department for Education, education and skills funding contract requirements) or for compliance then it would make sense to use the same standard to guide the production of your disaster recovery management system […]

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Introduction to Business continuity, a model that applies to Disaster Recovery planning.

This is the first of a series of related blogs posts, more to follow soon.  Business continuity and disaster recovery planning is essential to ensuring the organisation can recover from an effect that impacts the business delivery processes.  Business continuity planning is a senior leadership responsibility as it should have contingencies for all functional areas […]

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AI and Sustainability: weighing up the environmental pros and cons of machine intelligence technology.

The world is currently facing an unprecedented environmental crisis, and as such, the need for sustainable and innovative technologies has become more pressing than ever. One technology that holds immense promise and concern in equal measure is Artificial Intelligence (AI). You might be surprised to learn that I did not write the opening sentence of […]

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IT support staff retention

Many colleges and universities have been experiencing difficulty in retaining their experienced and valued IT support staff. And with staff recruitment ever more challenging it’s become a priority to retain an IT support center’s most valuable asset, their support staff. Strategic asset While conducting over 150 infrastructure reviews and talking to IT teams all over […]

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When the bytes go out: will power outages affect my IT security model?

Author: Noel Davis, Subject specialist (Infrastructure programme) Should any scheduled power outages occur over the winter, they will have the potential to interrupt normal business operations to varying degrees.  Current predictions are that these will be limited to evenings and not occur during core business hours. Ensuring staff can work as expected will reduce the […]

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When the bytes go out: Power down? What next?

Author: Noel Davis, Subject specialist (Infrastructure programme) With the increasing prospect of power interruption over the coming months, it is essential that Jisc members have confidence in their disaster recovery (DR) plan, which should deal with such eventualities. Power recycling on IT equipment is usually managed by the IT team.   It is usual for core […]

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Ensuring your disaster recovery and business continuity plans are ready for any interruption to power supplies

Pressure on energy supplies and centralised planning to manage energy consumption have been well documented in the media. It is likely that any energy rationing will be experienced as either a: ‘Blackout’, scheduled or unscheduled total loss of grid provided energy, most likely electricity, for a period. There is also the threat of ‘Brownout’, a […]

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Improving the student eduroam experience

Author: Edward Wincott, Eduroam service manager The new academic year has begun, and the return of students to campus means a huge increase in the usage of eduroam. Connecting to eduroam can be frustrating and fraught with difficulty for some students, and staff too, and since eduroam is the primary Wi-Fi service at most universities […]