Hybrid Clouds & Mini Pods
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Hybrid Clouds & Mini Pods
Eduserv Symposium 201112 May
Dr Phil Richards
Director of IT, Loughborough University
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
JANET – our ‘national grid’ for hybrid cloud
Remote industrialdata centre 2
Remote industrialdata centre 1
brokerage
University or College local clouds
JANET – our ‘national grid’ for hybrid cloud
University or College local clouds
Remote industrialdata centre 2
Remote industrialdata centre 1
brokerage
Test data centres