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1. Janet Brokerage
Cloud Adoption -
A journey towards greener and cost effective IT
Ged Powell
ged.powell@ja.net
www.ja.net
2. Presentation
• Two parts:
• Janet Brokerage Introduction
• Approach to delivery of benefits
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3. The Brokerage Story so far...
• Data centre initiatives and strategy for HEFCE
• Universities Modernisation Fund
• Pump prime funding
• Creation of the JANET Brokerage
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4. Brokerage Aims
• Work with the sector and suppliers to provide solutions based
on IT as a service, facilitating the uptake of data centre, hosted
and cloud services.
• Create efficiencies and cost savings
• Accelerate and improve services and add value
• Reduce risk in adopting new services
• Address technical and business questions
• Create a competitive market based on sound technical platforms
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5. Period of learning...
• Many discussions with the sector to understand:
• Focus, fears and future aspirations
• Critical blockers for adoption
• Readiness to adopt
• Many discussions with commercial providers to understand:
• Focus, fears and future aspirations
• Critical blockers for adoption
• Readiness to work collaboratively
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6. And we found...
• Many different organisational:
• perspectives
• approaches
• priorities
• levels of readiness
• Unsurprisingly: There is no one model that fits all!
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7. Way Forward...
• Unitdedicated to working with research and education
institutions to match individual needs to data centre and cloud
computing solutions
• Spentthe past year building relationships with sector and
suppliers, identifying which services are key
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10. Where are we up to?
- Organisationally
• Team in place
• Setting up sector and commercial advisory boards
• Communications plan
• Website Social Media
• Events and representation
• Engaged with other JANET areas
• CSIRT, Regulatory, Development Moonshot
• Keen to engage further with the sector...
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11. Where are we up to?
- Dialogue
• In dialogue with:
• Key national/international suppliers
• Providers at different levels of the cloud stack
• Engaged with:
• Sector strategies (e.g. HEIDS report)
• Sector bodies (e.g. UCISA, JISC)
• UMF projects and initiatives
• Engaging with:
• Home Office G-Cloud
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12. Where are we up to?
- Services
• Initial procurements
• About to launch two frameworks for data centre services
• Colocation and IaaS
• Working with sector institutions and their needs
• Developing Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)
• New use of DPS, proving the concept and making efficiencies
• Aimed at commodity provision (storage, compute, HPC)
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13. Where are we up to?
- Services
• Other initiatives
• Upcoming paper on email for research students and staff
• Continuing leading reports by UCISA and JISC Legal
• Working with sector and suppliers directly
• Security work with CSIRT and industry to clarify risks
• Embargoed “stuff” - watch this space...
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15. Initial Service Menu
• Colocation Data Centre Services
• VLE
• Managed Virtual Servers
• Email
• Commodity Storage
• UMF Projects
• Tiered Storage
• HPC
• Commodity Compute
• Disaster Recovery
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16. Elephant in the Room
• The
Brokerage is designed for the
benefit of the sector...
• But needs to be self sustaining...
• So priorities need to be balanced.
courtesy of http://istoryaheonline.blogspot.com
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17. Priorities
• Establish Brokerage as ‘one stop shop’
• Develop coherent offerings, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
• Develop Financial Sustainability Model
• Pilot new technologies e.g. Moonshot
• Legal / SLA Model
• Support sector projects
• First major brokered deal(s) executed this academic year
• Establish pipeline of brokered deals into FY12/13
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18. Sector background
• Still very early in “Cloud” adoption process in HE / FE
• Degree of adoption and willingness varies across sector
• “Cloud” is a very complex and dynamic place
• Business models, technologies etc..
• Especially true in HE / FE sector
• Changing funding / financial conditions
• Business processes evolving and changing
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19. Diamond Report
• There is much evidence of good practice in the sector, but it needs better dissemination.
• Information on the costs of operational activities within higher education needs to improve.
• Benchmarking is a vital tool for driving efficiency. Current practice is piecemeal and fragmented and
a more strategic national framework is proposed.
• Simplifying, streamlining and improving internal processes needs to be a priority for all institutions.
• Building on prior simplification and standardisation, more can be done to develop shared services,
but VAT remains a barrier.
• There is significant potential for outsourcing and the development of strategic relationships with
the private sector to deliver services.
• A more strategic coordination of higher education procurement at the national level is needed.
• There are a number of areas where regulatory reform can help reduce costs associated with
compliance and facilitate increased efficiency.
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20. Sector Complexity / Dynamism
Private
Hybrid
Public
Community
Iaas
PaaS
SaaS
Managed, Shared Services
Research
Teaching
Admin and
Enterprise
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21. Cloud?
Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison:
“The interesting thing about cloud computing is
that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include
everything that we already do…. I don’t
understand what we would do differently in the
light of cloud computing other than change the
wording of some of our ads.”
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22. Brokerage Journey
• No “one size fits all” solution – no silver bullet
• Travel from basic Colocation to shared services
• Many starting points – incremental progress
Cost benefits demonstrated at each step
Performance / service benefits equally important
• May need to approach internal “sectors” individually
Research, Teaching, Enterprise
• Initially ease procurement, offer value additions
Frameworks in place,
Commercial, legal, operational, etc. advice...
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23. Current position
• Two frameworks in place (ready in January)
Colocation
•
Data Centre and Cloud services
• Case studies (including cost models) planned
• Further frameworks planned for early 2012
• Major project on TCO and VfM models
• White paper on cloud email due for publication
• More white papers planned
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24. Our questions...
• Are you looking to adopt new data centre services?
• Whatare your storage requirements likely to be over the
next 3 years?
• Have you moved your research student/staff mail out?
• How else can the JANET Brokerage help your institution?
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