Networks ∙ Services ∙ People www.geant.org Lars Fuglevaag HEAnet Towards Pan-European Cloud Services GÉANT Cloud Activity 12 November 2015 Head of Communications, UNINETT
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Networks ∙ Services ∙ People www.geant.org
Lars Fuglevaag
HEAnet
Towards Pan-European Cloud Services
GÉANT Cloud Activity
12 November 2015
Head of Communications, UNINETT
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Global reach on a par with the best
• 40 NRENs
• 10 000 institutions
• 35 million users
• Network
• Collaboration
• Project
GÉANT – a collaborative effort
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«Clouds» is about
a way of delivering services and resources
and
the services and resources themselves
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Meeting user needs through a community effort, adding value in the process
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Our mission
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• Activity initiated spring 2013
• Hot topic
• 15 NRENs actively engaged
• 40 + people involved
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Foundation: four main areas
REQUIREMENTS CATALOGUE
STRATEGY STANDARDS
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NREN Questionnaire:
• Interest in specific types of services
• Willingness to participate
• Varying maturity
• Varying scopes/mandates
• IaaS highest priority
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Meeting user needs: Cloud collaboration areas
COLLABORATIONSUITES
REALTIMECOMMUNICATION
FILE STORAGEAND SYNC
INFRASTRUCTUREAS A
SERVICE
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• Faster and easier access to a range of useful cloud services by creating the right legal, procurement and technical environments.
• Creating a strong community voice, based on the aggregation of demand across GÉANT members, to get the optimum technical and commercial solutions from vendors
• Adapted to common community requirements and standards such as federation
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Meeting user needs: Providing the right choices
Users are choosers
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• Trusted broker and advisor, acting on behalf of the community in a collaborative effort, leveraging the benefits of the GÉANT network, federation and combined expertise.
• Sharing resources, experiences and knowledge, establishing common standards and requirements
• Aggregating demand, enabling efficiency and economy of scale
• Buying power of 10,000 institutions and 35 million end users
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Community effort: By the community – for the community
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• Maximizing benefits, minimizing risks
• Federation and integration; adapting the services to the R&E community portfolio
• Data control; adhering to legal and security demands, getting in and out in a timely manner
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Added value: The benefits of clouds, adapted to the community
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Adding value for HEAnet Clients
TERMS & CONDITIONSBROKERAGE
PROCUREMENT
FEDERATED IDENTITY MANAGEMENT & SINGLE SIGN-ON
Edugate / eduGain
NETWORKPEERINGS
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Legal basis for procurement activity
EC Procurement Directive (2014/24/EU) - To be implemented by Member States no later than 18th April 2016
Member State Procurement Legislation- New Directive sets out key provisions key to the success of the planned GEANT IaaS Frameworks:
• Framework Agreement use• Cross-border procurements• Centralised Purchasing Bodies
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Timeline
Competitive Dialogue(original plan)
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Dia
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ITSF
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Fin
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Co
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Open Procedure(new plan)
Ten
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Fin
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Co
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acts
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ed
Oct 15
Nov 15
Dec 15
Jan 16
Feb16
Mar 16
Apr 16
May 16
Jun 16
Market engagement
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• HEAnet Brokerage Team are ready to help
• Ronan Byrne
• Robert Hackett
• Garvan McFeeley
• Feedback on your requirements
• which IAAS vendors,
• demand estimates,
• barriers to adaption
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How can you engage?
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Joint NREN efforts
• A rich set of suitable services - put services ‘on the shelves’
• Bring these services to the community - get services 'off the shelves', in the hands of R&E
users
• Direct practical benefits to HEAnet clients using IAAS Public Cloud –benefit from pan-European aggregation
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Towards Pan-European Cloud Services for Research and Education
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Cloud services to your users
Summer2016
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Thank you
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© GEANT Limited on behalf of the GN4 Phase 1 project (GN4-1).The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 691567 (GN4-1). 16
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