Michael Pickett
Technical Design Architect
Norfolk County Council
Norfolk County Council
Reaching for the Cloud
Michael Pickett
Norfolk‘s Education Demographics
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Large rural county in the East of England
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Over 420 schools
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More than 120,000 teachers, learners &
support staff
The challenge
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Confidence inspiring ICT
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Anytime and anyplace
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Secure and e-Safe
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Affordable, sustainable and green
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Familiar and easy access
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Bring Your Own Device
The Challenge
The approach
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Cloud computing
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Open standards
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Green IT
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Sustainable IT
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Device agnostic
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Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)
iPaaS
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Identity Management service
Open standards for data interoperability
o Systems Interoperability Framework (SIF)
Open standards for Single Sign-on
o Shibboleth (based upon SAML2.0)
Private Virtual Data Centre
Learning Platforms
Apps
Shibboleth SSo
14 to 19
Management
Identity Management
Schools MIS
College MIS
How SIF works
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Applications
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SIF Agents
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Zone Integration
Server (ZIS)
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SIF Data Objects
Management
Information System
(MIS)
NCC Identity
Provider
Learning
Platform
Google
Apps
Tribal
IDEAR
Remedy CRM
NCC
Systems
Content
Services
The server-less
school
Why Google?
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Brings the real world into the classroom
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Open standards
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Collaboration
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Innovative
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Cloud strategy
Our deployment
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One domain – probably World’s largest!
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120 – 140,000 accounts
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420 schools
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840 Organisational Units (Staff / Students)
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e-Safe
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SIF account provisioning and SSo
How are we using?
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Managed group policies for access to Google Apps
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Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
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Single Sign-on to services such as Espresso Primary,
Purple Mash, e-Chalk, Aviary
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Drive
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Chromebooks Pilot
Where are we going?
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Chromebooks, iPads, Etc.
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Bring Your Own Device
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Server-less school
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Jolicloud
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Norfolk Cloud Apps Store*
* Working Title
Technologies & Suppliers
Thank you
michael.pickett@norfolk.gov.uk
michael@f2mke.co.uk
@f2mke
http://www.f2mke.co.uk