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InternationalTelecommunicationUnion

Cloud Computing and the BR

Experience from the ICTC pilot-project and opportunities for a follow-up

The BR Cloud team

A. Manara (team leader),O. Chuzel, O. Evrard

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Agenda Presentation

Cloud computing: key conceptsUnited Nations and the Cloud ITU Cloud related activitiesBR experience in the ICTC Project with

public (hybrid) Cloud Demo Session Discussion

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Cloud computing deployment models

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Cloud computing Patterns and providers

Enterprise Public Cloud Platforms Forrester (June 2013)Common scenario patterns

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UN strategic framework: more harmonized, efficient, green & economical ICTs (August 2013) Achieve Continued Innovation Enhance integration and

interoperability, driving efficiency and effectiveness

Practice Lean IT through best practices

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United Nations and the Cloud

Cloud usage in UN agencies WFP: CRM (Salesforce), Web

hosting (Amazon) WMO: Messaging and

Collaboration (Google) FAO: Mapping Applications

(Google Maps, Google Earth Engine)

“Private and public cloud SaaS, IaaS and PaaS offerings can provide immediate benefits to harmonization as well as cost containment”

More info in Annex 1

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ITU-T SG13: Future networks including cloud computing, mobile and next-generation networks Q. 26/13: Cloud computing ecosystem,

inter-cloud and general requirements Q.27/13: Cloud functional architecture,

infrastructure and networking Q.28/13: Cloud computing resource

management and virtualization

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ITU cloud related activitiesCloud usage in ITU• Remote meetings (Skype)• ITU promotion (YouTube,

Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn)

• Email (UNICC/Google Postini)

• Office 365 (in testing)

Microsoft Enterprise agreement (including online services): signed on May 1st

More on Annex 2

ITU-D SG1: Enabling environment for development of telecom/ICTs Q.COM3/CC (WTDC-14): Access to cloud

computing: Challenges and opportunities for developing countries

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BR initial investigations

Dependable Distributed Computing for the ITU Regional Radio Conference RRC06J. T. Moscicki, A. Manara, M. Lamanna, P. Mendez, A. Muraru (Jun 2009)

OutlookIn order to prepare for future events which may require even more computing capabilities than the RRC06, paradigms such as Cloud computing could be investigated, where dynamically scalable resources are provided as a service over the Internet.

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ICTC pilot-project

Goals • Objectives

Prepare for future events which may require huge computing resources.

• Experiment with:• deployment and operation of ITU software

systems in the cloud.• the integration of local and cloud

computing resources• the scaling of computing resources to meet

peak demand.• Study economics of the proposed system • Spread knowledge.

Help positioning ITU as the leading UN agency for ICT

Document work and related findings by publishing article in ITU News/other journals as well as specialized press and disseminating to the UN agency worldwide.

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ICTC Doc. 44/3 BR proposal to ICTC, Nov. 2011 RfP for consulting services, Apr. 2012, UN Global Marketplace Selected Company: SolidQ; Budget: 38 000 CHF Project start: Sep. 2012, Project closure: Dec. 2013

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Cloud architecture design goals Overview of P1812, GE06L and PFD solutions Performance measurements Data privacy and security considerations Cost structure of cloud solutions Knowledge repository

The BR experience

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Security: Data protection Compliance with current IS security settings

Availability: At least as good as the availability of the ITU infrastructure

Performance: Any workload could be managed in less than a given amount of time

according to the amount of cloud resources deployed

Usability: Simple click deployment/removal and possibility of complete

automation Automatic scaling up and down. No cloud computing knowledge required for operating the system.

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Cloud Architecture design goals

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On-premisesIaaSPaaS

P1812 calculations

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Business case • Propagation model• Online calculation

service (eTools)• Usage of DEM data

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GE06L PaaS

Standalone management application for: Jobs submission Cloud service monitoring and

control Performance analysis GE06L examination results

retrieval

Business case: • Coordination examination• Integration in TerRaSys to

meet peek CPU demand• Notice data (private)

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PFD

Simple distribution model one network against all others one network against groups of

many

Moved into cloud in phases Use CPUs on ITU PC Use VMs on Azure (IaaS & SQL

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Business case • PFD for protection of space

services (Appendix 30)• Public data (space notice)• Legacy Cobol & Fortran code vs

MS Access• Possible future usage:

calculation on demand (online service) / regular processing

GREEN INTRANET (ITU)

WINDOWS AZURE (PUBLIC CLOUD)

BLUE INTRANET (ITU)

VM

MS Access DB(SNS/SPS/GIMS)

SQL Server(SNS/SPS/GIMS)

SQL Server on IAAS

Virtual Network

Client Software

SQL Azure Database

Jobs & results

SQL Server(SNS/SPS/GIMS)

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Performance

Run evolution (95 workers) for the 1238 notices published in Special Section GE06L/8/A.

GE06L

~37 CHF

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Performance

PFD

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GE06L PaaS

Data privacy and security

Methodology

Classification of business data

Description of the systems and identifications of hot spots

Introduction of associated defense tactics

Technical doc: GE06L on the Cloud security report

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Azure Price Calculator Small VM (1.6GHz CPU,

1.75GB RAM, 225GB Storage): CHF 0.078/VM/hour

1 Large VM SQL Server Enterprise: CHF 2.04/hour

SQL database: 9.71 CHF/month (< 1 Gb)

Storage (1000GB:24CHF/mo)

Service Bus, Bandwidth

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Cost structure of cloud solutions

GE06L 1238 notices

GE06L/8/A 95 workers 5 hours run 37 CHF Proc: 20 min!

P1812 2VM/workers 1400 CHF/yearCould add other ITU-R Rec. propagation model with no additional fees

PFD Network ID113555003 40 hours run 4VM 104 CHF

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Hardware costs 100 PC @ 2K CHF 200K CHF Network: 200 CHF/port 20K CHF Installation & Power: ~ 5K CHF (not

reusable)Used 8 months & re-used in ITU: depreciation over 3 years: ~70K CHF/year 50K CHF/8 mo.

Staff costs 4 man/mo @ 10K CHF 40K

Total Costs: ~100K CHF Procurement: 8 months!

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RRC-06: Cost structure analyses

100 Small VM (1.6GHz CPU, 1.75GB RAM)@CHF 0.088/VM/hr

30days@RRC06Hardware Cost OnlyTotal Cost: ~ 6.3K CHFProcurement: 20 min

Equivalent Cloud System

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BR should continue to develop knowledge and experiment with the Cloud

For BR to be able to deploy production Cloud services there is a need to define: Strategy Structure Budget

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What is next