NSMS services
What can we do for you?
This page presents a brief description of the many and varied IT services
provided by NSMS, with links to further pages giving more details about each
service.
- Server Management
- Windows, Linux, and Apple OS X server management is available.
- Virtual Infrastructure Consultancy and Management
- NSMS offers a consultancy and management service to support departments or colleges using virtualisation technology in their infrastructure.
- VM for Rent Service
- The VM for Rent service has now been superseded by the Hosted VMs service within the Private Cloud, one of the Shared Infrastructure Services. All existing clients will be migrated to the Hosted VMs service in due course.
- Mac Managed Platform
- This service provides colleges and departments who wish to work in an Apple environment with a highly integrated, reliable and resilient desktop environment to support research and administrative tasks.
- Workstation Management Service
- NSMS offers a wide range of affordable services which aim to improve Windows and Mac OS X workstation security and to simplify their day to day administration.
- Comprehensive Web Hosting
- If you are one of the many University Departments and Colleges that host their Web sites on the OUCS Web servers, you may have wondered how best to implement more advanced options, without realizing that a more comprehensive Web service is also available from OUCS through the NSMS Comprehensive Web Hosting Service. Please note: In terms of facilities offered, this hosting service is the most comprehensive that is offered by OUCS. You may find it useful to look at the comparison of OUCS web hosting services page to help you decide which service is the most appropriate for you.
- Firewall Service
- Concerns about computer security dominate today's IT environment. But security is a broad subject encompassing many different areas. Properly securing a network involves the consideration of many aspects, and indeed the act of securing a network can never really be considered to be completed. It is an ongoing process.
- IT Consultancy
- In addition to the specific services listed NSMS also offers more general IT consultancy, covering all aspects of the use of IT within the collegiate University. Please contact nsms@oucs.ox.ac.uk for more details.
- Storage rental
- If your project or team needs more storage either short or long term, NSMS can offer you storage to suit your needs. NSMS storage rental offers a cost effective solution to additional storage, using proven iSCSI technology. This can be attached across the University network to your existing server, or to any NSMS Virtual Machine. This service is calculated on a per Gigabyte basis providing a fine grained approach allowing us to tailor the service for your needs. Please contact nsms@oucs.ox.ac.uk for more details.
- Request Tracker Service
- Request Tracker (RT) from BestPractical is an enterprise-grade ticketing system which
enables diverse groups of people to intelligently and efficiently manage
tasks, issues, and requests submitted by a community of users. RT
manages key tasks such as the identification, prioritization,
assignment, resolution and notification required by enterprise-critical
applications including help desk, project management, software
development and CRM. RT has been in use for many years at OUCS as their
helpdesk system, and is in use by many teams inside the Department for
other uses.
The NSMS team provide a managed hosting platform for Request Tracker providing a range of services. In all cases the database backend of the service is managed by NSMS and backed up on a daily basis.
- Security auditing
- Understanding the exact nature of the security of your servers and their network environments can be a long and involved process. This can be even more complicated when your IT infrastructure has evolved over many years.
- Windows Server Update Service
- NSMS offers a Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) server which allows automated installation of critical updates for Windows 2000/XP and Microsoft Office. Please contact nsms@oucs.ox.ac.uk for more details.
- Managed Apple OS X Services
- The number of people using Apple Macintosh based OS X systems has increased dramatically throughout the University and the NSMS team provide a number of support services for these systems.
- Centralised Purchasing
- NSMS has many years of experience in configuring and installing new hardware and software in many sites throughout the University.