Hybrid Clouds & Mini Pods

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Hybrid Clouds & Mini Pods Eduserv Symposium 2011 12 May Dr Phil Richards Director of IT, Loughborough University

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A talk by Phil Richards at the Eduserv Symposium 2011 - Virtualisation and the Cloud.

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Hybrid Clouds & Mini Pods

Eduserv Symposium 201112 May

Dr Phil Richards

Director of IT, Loughborough University

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Overview

The problem we are trying to solve?

Definition of cloud

Commodity and complexity IT

What are large IT organisations doing?

Do what I say, not what I do

Hybrid cloud: de-risking the cloud

The killer app for HE FE cloud?

JANET brokerage – national grid for cloud

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The problem we are trying to solve

Save £100Ms from £23Bn UK HE turnover

~ 2% spent on servers and storage = £460M

Can we save 50% of £460M?

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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)

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Commodity vs complexity IT

Dynamic equilibrium

Commodity IToutsource, share

Complexity ITinsource, innovate

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Commodity vs complexity IT

Dynamic equilibrium

Commodity IToutsource, share

Complexity ITinsource, innovate

Cloud for savings Cloud for quality

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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

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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

Owner Location Square feet

Amazon Dublin, Ireland 240,000

Google Hamina, Finland N/K

HP Winyard, UK 305,000

IBM Dublin, Ireland N/K

Microsoft Dublin, Ireland 303,000

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

Others

Eduserv Swindon, UK 37,000

Logicalis UK Slough, UK 10,000

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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

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Where are suppliers angling?

I want Supplier offers Comment

Utility IaaS from industrial data centre with standards and hybrid cloud ‘exit strategy’

Proprietary SaaS/PaaS

Difficult exit strategy, expensive initial system integration/consultancy, pricing based on local hosting+, suppliers don’t need to work hard to retain my business – suppliers like the G-Cloud approach!

Single PSN Multiple PSNs At least one expensive solution per public sector vertical please – and don’t mention Wales or JANET!

PSN counter example – Wales PSBA, grew out of JANETwww.psba.org.uk

Hybrid cloud IaaS counter-example – we may need to make it ourselves with Eduserv and Logicalis

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De-risking the cloud and avoiding major buildLoughborough’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

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Summary: possible ingredients for large-scale cloud success

Incremental change via IaaS virtual servers and storage Staff retain jobs and outlet for skills – no barrier

University apps to differentiate and compete as needed

De-risk transition via IaaS hybrid cloud Local cloud mini-pods avoid data centre new build cost

Easy rollback/exit strategy from remote cloud

£100M+ cost savings from industrial scale IaaS remote cloud But we will really have to force suppliers to provide this – or DIY

JANET as national grid for ‘utility’ IaaS remote cloud JANET is already in place!

JANET to set and assure standards and security levels

JANET to act as ‘broker’ for competitive HE FE deals or DIY

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JANET – our ‘national grid’ for hybrid cloud

Remote industrialdata centre 2

Remote industrialdata centre 1

brokerage

University or College local clouds

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JANET – our ‘national grid’ for hybrid cloud

University or College local clouds

Remote industrialdata centre 2

Remote industrialdata centre 1

brokerage

Test data centres