SURFnet Dante

An introduction to SURFnet

Erwin BleuminkManaging director

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• SURFnet is the Dutch National Research & Education Network (NREN)– Services, innovation, knowledge

– Not for profit

– Task organisation of Stichting SURF = ICT collaboration of higher education & research

• A small operation serving a large community:– 85 employees

– 160 connected institutions

– 1 million end-users

– Turnover 35 million Euro; 1/3 innovation subsidies

SURFnet: the Dutch NREN


SURFnet is part of the SURF Family

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Institutions

Stichting SURF

SURFmarket

SURFshare

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Strategic plan

Themes• Network infrastructure• Security and privacy• Sourcing and sustainable ICT• Professional shared services• Infrastructure for digital content• E-Science, supercomputing and grid• Technology Enhanced Education

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• SURFmarket: commercial ICT products and services on highly

favourable conditions

• SURFshare: Shared Professional Services• Netherlands E-Science Center (together with NWO, the Dutch NSF)• SURFsara: Scientific computing & storage

SURF

SURFshareShared services

SURFmarketSoftware licenses

& services

SURFnetAdvanced networking

& collaboration

SURFsaraHigh performance

computing & storage

NLeSCe-Science methods

& tools

NWO

Reorganise to manage research e-Infrastructure


SURFnet: community and characteristics

• Our community– Research universities– Universities of Applied Sciences– Academic & teaching hospitals– Research institutes– Research departments of companies– Scientific libraries– Secondary vocational education & training

• SURFnet characteristics: – On the demand side of the market– Global collaboration in innovation– Unique relationship with both users and suppliers– Bridge between R&D and market

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Financing

SURFnet. We make innovation work

• Turnover 35 million Euro per year• Innovation paid for by government and industry• Operations cost distribution model for connected institutes


Organisation principles

• Principles– Foster tension between technology and user perspectives in

organisation– Management of professionals– Keep people working on innovation and operations close

together (SURFnet outsources all operational management of services)

– Flat organisation

• Matrix organisation– All people and operations in departments– Innovation in multi-disciplinary teams

Management structure as of July 1, 2012

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Management

Dep Dep Dep Dep Dep DepYoung Talent program

Innovation program

Innovation program

Finance, Informationand organisation

Erwin BleuminkCEO

Erik HuizerCTO

Karen de BruijnCFO

SURFnet - We make innovation work


Departments


Would you recommend us?

NPS

34%

% promoters

36%

% detractors

2%

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Source: SURFnet instellingenonderzoek 2011

“Anyone following me on Twitter already knows what I did this past summer.”

Source: The New Yorker, 5 september 2011


“Run your life on a mobile in the cloud”

Study + Work + Play + Collaborate + Organise


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Virtual organisationNext generation sequencing

• Integrated e-infrastructure– SURFnet Light paths to 10+ locations– Own compute infrastructure (Life Science Grid Cluster) – SARA storage– Need for collaboration infrastructure

• Large virtual organisation– Academic hospitals: LUMC, Erasmus MC, AMC, MUMC, UMCN,

VUMC – Research universities: VU, WUR, TU Delft, RUG– Research organisations: Hubrecht– Commercial organisations: BGI (Hong Kong, Complete Genomics

(LA, USA), Philips, Pfizer


Constituency

Source: A future view on SURFnet, Roland Staring, master thesis TopTech 2011



Researchers, instructors, and students work together simply and effectively with the aid of ICT

Vision



• Business case = use all that is available

• Needed: a trusted, connecting ICT infrastructure

• How?– Innovation leading to services,

standardisation, and knowledge (dissemination)

– With national and international partners

– Technical and business innovation

Motor for innovation

Two result areas

Network infrastructure A hybrid fixed-wireless network as the basis for all collaboration, providing efficient, unlimited data transport

Core services: IP, bandwidth on demand, eduroam

Collaboration infrastructurea pioneering collaboration environment that seamlessly connects systems, services, tools, and people

Core services: SURFconext, SURFfederatie, SURFteams, resource broker

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“Services philosophy”

• Innovation focused on creating operational services

• KISS: generic needs

• If useful, internationally developed & globally connected

• Distinguish between basic services and temporary ICT services and showcases

• Only provide services that the market does not deliver

• Active portfolio management


Types of services

• Basic services (core package) provide the linking factor between users and the services and tools offered by suppliers and institutions

• Temporary ICT services and showcases show users what is possible and thus provide an impetus for new types of collaboration and the sharing of tools. If these services are successful, the role of SURFnet as a service provider for these temporary ICT services must be taken over by the market


Services portfolio 2012

Basic services Impulse services

SURFinternetSURFfederatieeduroamSURFcert SURFlichtpaden

SURFgroepen (Exit 2012)SURFmedia (Exit 2012)SURFdashboardSURFopzichterSURFconextOntsluiting dislocatie via IPSURFinternetpinnen (guar. 2013)SURFcertificaten (guar. 2013)SURFcontact (Exit 2012)SURFmailfilter (guar. 2013)ConsultancySURFdomeinen

erwin.bleumink[at]surfnet.nl

@erwinbleumink

erwin.bleumink

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