Cloud Services

RM Education's cloud services give you the chance to reduce your overall ICT costs and fund out of revenue instead of capital budget.

Reduction in capital expenditure: Because cloud services use hardware and software provided in secure managed data centres, you don't have to spend your capital budget on infrastructure in your school.

Reduced on-site support: We manage the technology for you, carrying out all system maintenance on your behalf, so you can concentrate your staff on teaching and learning.

Cost-effective operations: You decide when to add capacity, therefore you only pay for what you need. And this could be flexible throughout the year. You also benefit from the economies of scale of a service which is delivered from a shared location.

Greener ICT service: Because of the economies of scale, the carbon-footprint is lower. And because it's hosted centrally your electricity bills and carbon-footprint will be reduced. 

Cloud services make your network more accessible, more secure and more efficient.

Flexibility: Cloud services are elastic. You can buy what you need, when you need it and access from a range of Internet-enabled devices including those that traditionally you would have consided out-of-date.

Increased reach and efficiency: Cloud services allow applications and digital content to be used around the clock from any device in any location with an Internet connection. Allowing you to include the wider community, including governors and parents - if you want to.

Improved security: Cloud services make it easier to ensure that only the people you choose have access to your data. Centralising the storage of your data means that it is covered by our enhanced security services, making it even safer - moving responsibility from your establishment to RM Education.

Future-proofing: With cloud services we invest in keeping the technology up-to-date so that you don't have to.

Cloud services are a significant change, or are they? In fact we've been doing it for years.

RM Education cloud services already support over 5 million users through the RM Learning Platform, Glow - the world's first national intranet for education, RM Easymail and Integris Management Information Systems. RM Education uses technology from major suppliers, including Microsoft, Google, Cisco, EMC, VMware and Citrix to ensure our solutions are built on the industry-leading components.

We are a major supplier of broadband services to education, ensuring that you can get the best value and have fast and reliable access.

Along with our educational and technical services, we will use your existing school development plan, to tailor the design and delivery of cloud services to integrate with your existing ICT network.

Cloud services are constantly evolving. There are a number of services already available and some are in development, these are detailed below. If you'd like to talk to us about a tailored solution for your school, please contact us.

Services include: