Cloud Services

Cloud computing

Cloud computing is changing the way that schools operate, moving away from locally installed tools and resources and utilising the power of the internet. Not only can the cloud help schools to deliver and manage lessons, it can also help you to manage your infrastructure, provide secure off-site back up and enable you to communicate and collaborate like never before.

Storage and Back-up

Joskos’ supported schools benefit from the excellent partnerships that we have forged over the years with a number of education-friendly cloud providers.
As cloud storage and backup have become a bigger part of the ICT landscape in schools, we have become experts at deploying cloud solutions that streamline management and make life easier for schools and administrators alike.

Things to look out for when assessing a cloud solution for your school

Scalable – storage and backup capacity should grow with your school’s requirements without having to make any major changes
Flexible – it should be able to accommodate users running various operating systems and devices such as desktops, notebooks and servers alike
Centralised management – administration should be policy-based with various levels of administration rights
Simplicity of use – managing and accessing your school’s data should never be an unnecessary drain on man-hours and learning time

Productivity tools

As a Microsoft Gold and Silver Certified Partner, we can provide and support the full range of Microsoft products and cloud services including Office 365 for Education. Bringing together a range of cloud-based communication, collaboration and productivity tools, this powerful suite is ideally suited to schools who want to move away from locally-installed office applications.

Educational software

Through its strategic partnerships, Joskos can provide a powerful and unique cloud-based software library that gives schools access to a vast range of titles from a range of content providers. Cloud-pointing technology is used to deliver exciting animation and multimedia to any learning device via the web.
Software titles are automatically updated, ensuring that schools always have access to the latest version.

Remote Network Management and Support

Our CentraStage remote monitoring and support service links your business-critical system to our Head Office so that in the event of a system problem, our engineers can quickly log into your servers and user machines in order to diagnose and resolve the issue at hand. This saves potentially large amounts of wasted time where engineers have to fight through traffic to get to your site only to find that the issue could have been resolved remotely.

Secure remote support includes:

Remote software installation, deployment, patching and management
Remote installation and management of anti-virus
Remote user account management: account creation and password reset
Remote management of wireless networks
Remote management of managed networks i.e. managed switches
Remote management of internet filtering
Remote management of printers

We can also provide proactive remote monitoring of every device across a school’s ICT estate, regardless of where the device is, and who it belongs to. This enables us to:

Monitor performance, from low disk space to CPU, memory and status
Be alerted to hardware or software changes
Monitor business critical services and processes
Scan event logs for critical errors
Check up on backups and security status
Create custom monitors for ad hoc requirements
Get automatic notification if a server (or any device which is selected as a key device for monitoring) goes offline or develops a fault

Our monitoring and support service provides various levels of user controls:

If we need to access a school server, users at the school can continue to access files etc on the server while we carry out remote troubleshooting.
If the troubleshooting is required on a user machine, Privacy mode enables clients to decline our connection request if it is inconvenient at that time.
The school can always ask for current work to take priority over troubleshooting.

In addition, remote asset management reliably, efficiently and automatically takes care of tracking your school’s hardware and software assets, no matter where the devices are located. This includes: