This year the "hot topic" of the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) Annual General Meeting was the creation of a Marketplace Alliance for Earth Observation Services (MAEOS). Recently, the EARSC has released a position paper around the development of a European Marketplace for EO services as a leverage for the exploitation of Copernicus data and services alongside commercial offerings. In this presentation all the insights and lessons learnt on marketplaces for cloud services.
Linked Data in Production: Moving Beyond Ontologies
Marketplaces for cloud services
2. Marketplaces for cloud services
22 June 2016
Bob Jones, CERN
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5. The Helix Nebula Initiative
The preferred model for public research
organisations is a hybrid cloud that combines
in-house resources with public e-
infrastructures and commercial cloud services
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The Helix Nebula initiative has
brought together research
organisations, data providers,
publicly funded e-
infrastructures and European
commercial cloud service
providers to develop a hybrid
cloud model with
procurement and governance
approaches suitable for the
dynamic cloud market
In-house
6. Procurement challenges
What if I get
locked in? Are there relevant
standards I should be
looking into?
What
happens to
my data?
How do I get
a good deal?
What happens to
my IT staff?
How can I compare
contracts & SLAs?
What is
PCP?
What are
the others
doing?
How can I allocate
costs?
What
services do
I need?
1. Cloud computing is disrupting the way IT resources are provisioned
2. In-house resources, publicly funded e-infrastructure and commercial cloud
services are not integrated to provide a seamless environment
3. Current organisational and financial models are not appropriate
4. The new way of procuring cloud services is also a matter of skills and education
5. Legal impediments exist
7. Provides a landscape of cloud procurement in the
European public research sector
Makes pragmatic recommendations for the
procurement of cloud services by PROs in Europe
Provides a guide to cloud procurement, supported by
best practices adopted worldwide
Proposes actions within the pillar three of the Digital
Single Market Strategy which focus on maximising the
growth potential of the digital economy
The PICSE Roadmap
4/5/2016 11
www.picse.eu/roadmap
11. HNSciCloud Joint Pre-Commercial Procurement
Bob Jones, CERN 11
Procurers: CERN, CNRS, DESY, EMBL-EBI, ESRF,
IFAE, INFN, KIT, SURFSara, STFC
Experts: Trust-IT & EGI.eu
The group of procurers have committed
• >1.6M€ of procurement funds
• Manpower for testing/evaluation
• Use-cases with applications & data
• In-house IT resources
To procure innovative IaaS level cloud services
integrated into a hybrid cloud model
• Commercial cloud services
• European e-Infrastructures
Services will be made available to end-users
from many research communities
Co-funded via H2020 Grant Agreement 687614
Total procurement budget >5M€
12. High Energy Physics
LHC experiments
Belle II
COMPASS
Astronomy
CTA – Cherenkov Telescope Array
MAGIC
Pierre Auger Observatory
Life Sciences
ELIXIR
Euro-BioImaging
Pan-Cancer
BBMRI
WeNMR
Photon/Neutron science
PETRA III, European XFEL, 3DIX, OCEAN, OSIRIS
Long tail of science
Etc.
User groups to be supported
13. Focus is on IaaS level services
Bob Jones, CERN 13
HNSciCloud
PCP
Source: CloudComputing for Govies, DLT Solutions, David Blankenhorn, Van Ristau and Caron Beesley
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Information as a Service:
Science interfacing with private sector
Helix Nebula
Marketplace
Customer
Customer
Customer
€
€
€
€
• Lower upfront
investment
• Fast access to EO and other
geodata resources
• Disruptive technology
• Risk and profit
sharing
Satellite data
(ESA/Copernicus)
Data
Content
Provider
(Research)
GEO-IT & App
Provider (SME)
Tools
Service Provider
(Industry)
Computing & IT
Customer
Information
• Sustainability
http://www.helix-nebula.eu/publications/deliverables/d72-synthesis-and-analysis-of-overall-business-models
15. NIH Cloud Credits Pilot: A Business Model
to Support the Use of Cloud Computing for
the Commons (2016-2018)
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For this pilot, the initial iteration of the Commons will be tested using a federation of public
and private computing clouds, with the choice of cloud provider being made by each
individual investigator who can select the best value for her/his individual research needs
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George A. Komatsoulis, Ph.D.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
17. Other marketplaces studied:
UK Gov G-Cloud
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March 2016: total sales
volume surpassed 1Bn GBP
with 21,000+ services from
2000+ suppliers
Advantages
• Purchase off-the-shelf,
pay-as-you-go cloud
solutions
• Framework is compliant,
regulated, refreshed
• Transparency: catalogue
shows supplier info,
services, prices, T&Cs
• No - OJEU, ITT, RfP, RfT, etc.
It works using GEO, which had been validated using the GEO Supersites. The need for HN was written into the GEO workplan.
EPOS is willing to use HN => integration of Space & in-situ. And EC has has a very successful collaboration action ensuring seamless data access throughout R&D infrastructure COOPEUS (http://www.coopeus.eu) covering also Supersite issues.
EO Science users will use the Supersites as their first option for data:
Storing
Querying
Processing
Analysis
because that's where they find all the data, tools and peers.
Goals:
1. building a global network of Geohazard Natural Laboratories: (space & in-situ)
2. Developing an e-infrastructure for solid earth data
3. Data analysis on the cloud
Strategy to achieve objective:
Improved monitoring
E-infrastructure virtually connecting data providers and users
Open access to all relevant data sets according to GEO data sharing principles
Stakeholders:
in-situ data owner (agencies, or institutes)
Space Agencies,
Global science community
State that the Helix Nebula initiative was created as a result of a commitment by the EIROforum IT Working group when it met in January 2011.
Digital public services includes eGovernment
Research organisations from 7 countries have proposed to work together to develop a cross-border joint procurement of innovative cloud services. This is an important change: never before have research organisations across Europe pooled their funds and resources to procure cloud services to support their scientific programmes.
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In March 2016 the total sales through G-Cloud surpassed 1Bn GBP
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2457368/g-cloud-sales-pass-gbp1bn-after-huge-gbp87m-spend-in-march