Higher-Education

Happy 18th

Oct 16, 2018 higher-education

October 2018 marks my 18 year anniversary working in Higher Education IT (so yes, about the same time since this year’s Freshers were born). It’s been a long ride and things have changed dramatically from technology, personal, and industry perspectives in that time. In this post I’ll be discussing a …

IT in Higher Education

Nov 28, 2017 higher-education application-virtualisation it-support

After over 15 years working in IT within the H.E. vertical I’ve spoken publically a few times about our corner of the tech industry, with talks at VMworld in 2016 and a recent TechUG meeting and chairing a roundtable at a UK VMUG UserCon. This post covers the highlights some of the content of these sessions, it …

OneDrive, Placeholders, and shared PCs.

May 12, 2017 microsoft onedrive higher-education

OneDrive now with Files On Demand

100,000 good reasons to virtualise those apps

Mar 16, 2017 application-virtualisation numecent software2 higher-education

A few years ago the IT department I work for set about revolutionising it’s software delivery methods using application virtualisation. As a University we were faced with the challenge of providing all applications to the staff and students on any PC- fighting the situation where “Package A is only …

The Amazing World of IT in Higher Education

Oct 19, 2016 vmworld vmw2016 vmware Higher-Education vBrownbag

There are around 17,000 IT Professionals working in the UK Higher Education industry supporting world-leading, cutting edge research and the development of the next generation of minds. They are also stewards of the (slightly less glamorous) systems for HR, payroll, email, printing and so on.