The higher education business opportunity for the unified data centre and cloud

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The Higher Education Business Opportunity for the Unified Data Centre & Cloud

Greg Page

Solutions Architect - Cisco Systems

@GregPage_Cisco

22nd January 2014

#innovatewithcloud

Dr. Phil Richards

Chief Innovation Officer - JISC

@phrichuk

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“… technology has become too embedded in the fabric of the business- and too critical for competitive performance- to be left to the IT function alone.”

McKinsey Quarterly

- Elevating technology on the boardroom agenda

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ENTERPRISE

WORKLOADS

CLOUD

WORKLOADS

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UNIFIED DATA CENTRE

COMPONENTS

APPLICATION DRIVEN

ARCHITECTURES

TOTAL SOLUTIONS

Compute Compute Storage Storage Services Services

L2,

L3

Programmable Provisionable

Monitoring Apps

Provisioning Apps

Networking Apps

End-User

Apps

App Integration Virtualisation

Cloud

Infrastructure

PoD

VDI

BC/DR

Unified

Fabric

Unified Computing

Unified

Management

BUSINESSPLATFORM

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Access to Storefront from all

OS & device types

Personalised & user friendly

Store for all IT Services

Tied to Enterprise Service

Management

Automated and seamless back-

end service provisioning

Pervasive Enterprise Security (versions, enforcement, trusted

devices)

Re

Entitlement Approvals Taxonomy Chargeback Reporting

Desktop SW

Mobile Apps Desktop HW

Collaboration Services

IT Infrastructure

Mobile HW Cisco eStore

Service Catalog

Orchestrator

http://www.cisco.com/go/ciscoit

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Thinking about stakeholder groups in Higher Education:

• Students

• Academics

• Staff

• Partners (Research, Commercial & Other)

How will governance take shape for

each group in your institution?

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Dr Phil Richards, chief innovation officer, Jisc

The HE business opportunity for data centre and cloud 22/01/2014

Outline

» Economies of ‘industrial scale’

» The Janet6 network

» Challenging ‘tin-hugger’ mind sets

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Economies of ‘industrial scale’

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What is ‘industrial scale’?

“…construction of extremely large-scale, commodity-computer data centres at low-cost locations… uncovered the factors of 5 to 7 decrease in cost of electricity, bandwidth, operations, software and hardware at these very large economies of scale.”

Armburst, Armando Fox et al., Above the Clouds, Berkeley

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Industrial-scale European data centres

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Owner Location Square feet

Amazon Dublin, Ireland 240,000

Google Hamina, Finland N/K

Microsoft Dublin, Ireland 303,000

Source: Greenpeace report ‘How dirty is your data?’, April 2011

N.B. Cisco supplies data centre networking equipment to 9 out of 10 of the world’s largest ‘Massively Scalable Data Centres’ (MSDC).

The Janet6 network

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The Janet6 network

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Light paths available between all national core locations.

Challenging ‘tin-hugger’ mind sets

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Loughborough University’s cost & carbon-saving hybrid cloud

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Janet data

Proposed shared data centre for London

» Prestigious research-intensive tenants

» Leverages Janet6 and light paths

» Move towards industrial economies

» Strong example of ‘tin’ not close to users or experiments

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Find out more

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Contact…

Dr Phil Richards Chief innovation officer, Jisc

[email protected]

jisc.ac.uk

Thank you