Presentation by Mark Roman, (former) President and CEO, CANARIE, during the Cybera Summit 2011 session, "Cloud Lessons Learned: Case Studies".

2. What’s Happening to ICT in Canada?
ICT: Information and Communications Technology
ICT VC Invesments
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4000
2001
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010

3. CANARIE’s DAIR Program
DAIR – the Digital Accelerator for Innovation and Research Program is:
- an advanced, shared R & D environment for digital innovators and
entrepreneurs to design, prototype, validate, and demonstrate new
applications, products and services
- a dedicated portion of the CANARIE high-speed, high-capacity fibre optic
network, plus macro cellular, WiFi and compute and storage resources –
offered at no charge during pilot phase: May 2011 – March 2012
- an opportunity to address a competitive disadvantage for small and medium-
sized companies that would otherwise have to spend scarce resources on this
kind of R & D infrastructure

4. Macro Wireless
Wi-Fi, Wire Wi-Fi, Wire
line Access line Access
University Provincial University
networks
Compute Compute
Node Node
uAlberta uSherbrooke
Internet
Small/ Small/
Medium Medium
Enterprise Enterprise

5. Who Will Benefit from DAIR?
§ Small and Medium Enterprises
§ During pilot and full-roll out
§ ICT Research Community
§ During full roll-out
§ Multinational Enterprises
§ During full roll-out

6. Results to Date
• Users from across Canada, with participation from
8 provinces. Users are:
v Not on the cloud:
• Using DAIR to augment their own physical compute nodes but
using resources not too differently than today.
• Will eventually experiment with how they can leverage cloud
computing as they become familiar.
v Looking to the cloud:
• Experiments are primarily with scaling for customer demand.
v Already using the cloud:
• Either expanding their tests OR
• Transferring existing cloud compute resources on to DAIR.

7. DAIR - Uses
• The companies participating come from a variety
of IT (and non-traditional IT) sectors including:
Gaming Video
Social Media Simulations
Security Mass Messaging
Insurance Building Construction
Mobile Development Platforms Cloud Computing
Geo-navigation
And more...

8. Feedback
• Extremely positive feedback from users:
“DAIR works very well for us. It is faster than our
machines, allows us to run more experiments, it is
reliable and we haven't had any issues with it.”
“Great system.”
“We are starting to do some user testing using your
cloud...things continue to go well.”

9. Economic Basis for CANARIE
Private sector will not By collecting all demand Equality of network
step in, as there is no across the Canada’s across Canada enables
profitable business case research environment all regions to access
given the significantly we create economies of research services
different characteristics scale and scope to everywhere and
of R&E networks leverage and deliver a complements successful
CANARIE addresses a
market gap
CANARIE aggregates
demand
CANARIE facilitates
regional parity
Private sector carriers cost-efficient digital federal-provincial
are supportive of infrastructure resource collaboration
CANARIE as a public
good to advance
research
CANARIE purchases
leading edge technology
from the private sector,
but does not compete
with industry

10. Shared Service Provider
Varying
degrees
of
centralizaDon/
decentralizaDon
What
can
CANARIE
do
to
lower
costs
on
Different
mandates
(operaDons,
customer
University
IT
support
service,
innovaDon,
etc.)
structures
are
like
campus?
snowflakes
Different
funding
models
(naDonal,
provincial,
local)
The
key
technology
they
all
share
is
the
network
Variable
emphasis
(admin,
teaching,
research)
SHARED
NETWORK
SERVICE

11. Research growth
“Discovering”
compuDng
HumaniDes
and
social
sciences
Four
drivers
of
core
network
demand
Graphics,
video,
etc.
3D
imaging
Medical
and
health
sciences
Real
Dme
diagnosDcs
TradiDonal
sciences
ExponenDal
data
and
engineering
volume
growth
Backup,
restore
Data
management
Archive,
protect
GROWING
DEMAND

12. Research computing growth
Why
run
HPC
compuDng
RaDonalize
HPC
from
27
Broadened
demand
for
research
on
campus?
to
less
data
centres
The
cloud
is
not
in
Canada
compuDng
ProtecDon
of
Privacy,
If
80%
of
research
naDonal
compeDDveness
compuDng
is
non-­‐HPC
issues
In
both
environments,
the
Build
Canadian
cloud
network
makes
it
happen
services

13. Grow Canadian Access Federation
EduRoam
Core
funcDons
NaDonal
interest
in
CAF
Shibboleth
Expand
to
full
community,
not
simply
UniversiDes
Leverage
Passive
EduRoam
Shibbolized
NEP
projects
FEDERATED
ACCESS

14. Canada,
the
world’s
data
centre
Vast
renewable
hydro-­‐
electric
power
How
do
we
a`ract
commercializaDon
to
Cooling
is
cheaper
the
farther
north
you
go
What
is
unique
about
Canada?
Canada?
GreenStar
network
innovaDons
via
follow
the
wind,
follow
the
sun
Manufacturing
is
the
new
agriculture.
CANARIE
backbone
DATA CENTRE
OPPORTUNITIES

15. DAIR
to
compare
…
Cybera
What
have
we
done
in
the
cloud
so
uAlberta
Working
together
on
DAIR
uSherbrooke
far?
CANARIE
ExperienDal
learning
23
SMEs
and
growing
from
DAIR
pilot
CLOUD
EXPERIENCE

16. A cloudy future …
FEDERATED
ACCESS
GROWING DATA CENTRE
DEMAND OPPORTUNITIES
SHARED VIABLE
CLOUD
NETWORK
SERVICE
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
MODEL