Post on 09-Dec-2014
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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