Free Services for all Institutions

All Institutions with an ISS agreement are recommended and encouraged to use the following services which are available to all Institutions at no additional cost:

Managed ePO Service

see ePolicy Orchestrator Managed Service

AD.CAM

AD.CAM is a managed Active Directory service for institutions.  Institution Support run the Domain and any institution can have their own OU Hierarchy delegated to them.  Within this you can treat this structure as you would a Domain you run yourself, bearing in mind the limitations that you cannot modify the schema or perform tasks that requires Domain Administrator rights.  Any and all possible rights to access your own OU hierarchy and the objects within are given.

see AD.CAM

Services Available with ISS Agreements 

Free Services

DHCP

Required for Desktop Imaging, described below.

Recommended for managing IP space and automatic network configuration of machines.

Services Charged at Cost-Recovery Rates

Institutions who are covered by an ISS agreement are entitled to subscribe to the following services at cost-recovery rates**.

Desktop Imaging

Preconfigured Windows 7* and Office 2013* automatic installation.

Preconfigured Mac Mavericks (10.9) and Office 2011* automatic installation.

*CALs and Licences to be purchased by Institution. 

Backup

Backed up by Zmanda, the amount of space required on the backup server will be dependant on backup policy required including data turn-over and length of retention of data. Specific requirements will be discussed on a case-by-case basis. 
1 zmanda licence is needed for each machine (server or desktop) that is backed up.

• £150/year/zmanda licence 
  plus
• £150/year/1TB backup storage required

Physical Server Hosting

Servers belonging to an institution with an ISS agreement can be hosted in a UIS server room which is cooled and provides a power supply backed with UPS and a generator

• £15/month/Hosted Unit
• 1 Hosted Unit = up to: 1U rack space, 2 network ports, 1 amp max power.

Virtual Machines 

The space on these VMs is intended for the Operating System. They are snapshotted, but not backed up with a file level backup.

• small - 2 GB RAM, 20GB storage for OS, 1 cpu - £10/month
• medium - 4 GB RAM, 40GB storage for OS, 2 cpu - £20/month
• large - 8 GB RAM, 60GB storage for OS, 2 cpu - £30/month
• x-large - 16GB RAM, 80GB storage for OS, 2cpu - £40/month

File Storage

File Storage is highly resilient, fast access and disaster recovery at volume level is included.

This can be paired with a server on a VM or Institutions using AD.CAM (recommended) can use our server and just take File Storage without the additional cost of a VM/OS.

• 100GB upwards @ £10/100GB/month
• 1TB or more - 20% discount ie £80/1TB/month
• No specific setup fee payable as this will be covered by the ISS agreement 

**all rates are reviewed annually by UIS and are subject to VAT where applicable