Jisc11 Cloud Solutions Phil Richards

Hybrid Clouds & Mini Pods

JISC Conference 201115 March

Dr Phil Richards

Director of IT, Loughborough University

Overview

Definition of cloud

Commodity and complexity IT

What are large IT organisations doing?

Hybrid cloud: de-risking the cloud

The killer app for HE FE cloud?

VM standards

JANET brokerage

Definition of cloud

“Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”

(US National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Commodity vs complexity IT

Dynamic equilibrium

Commodity IToutsource, share

Complexity ITinsource, innovate

Commodity vs complexity IT

Dynamic equilibrium

Commodity IToutsource, share

Complexity ITinsource, innovate

Cloud for savings Cloud for quality

HP consolidation project

Create ‘private cloud’

Data centres: 85 6 (3 x pairs)

Applications 6000 3000

Investment: $100Ms to create own JANET

Saving: $1Bn per annum revenue

(Source: eweek.com)

Lesson: industrial scale key to savings Berkeley ‘Beyond the Clouds’ – 10Ks+ servers

De-risking the cloud:Loughborough’s Hybrid Cloud

+

Local cloud2 x ‘mini-pods’Logicalis BOCS

Remote cloudvia

‘Traditional’data centre

to retire

Avoid refurbSave £Ms

OJEU competitive dialogue for buy-in

Co-operative Cloud

The ‘killer app’ for HE FE cloud?

Research tools?

Shared administrative applications?

Cheap virtual servers (IaaS) via hybrid cloud Organic change: current IT staff retain job and role

Cost savings if remote cloud ‘industrial scale’

Performance, security OK if via JANET Brokerage

Exit strategy: risk mitigated by migration back to local cloud

Standards for VMs and hypervisors:do we need to worry?

VHS vs. Betamax?

Or CD/DVD/+/-/R/RW/RAM

JANET – our ‘national grid’ for hybrid cloud

University or College local clouds

Remote industrialdata centre 2

Remote industrialdata centre 1

brokerage