Cloud services for higher education and research via SURF Andres Steijaert

1. Cloud services
ANDRES STEIJAERT

2. CLOUD SERVICES
Users
consume
produce
Vendors
working towards
a connected
collaboration infrastructure
SURF

3. End user push
2 BILLION PEOPLE ONLINE
30% OF WORLD POPULATION
IT USED TO BE SCARCE
NOW AVAILABLE IN ABUNDANCE
Consumerization & commoditization
multi-device
multi-service
Users are choosers

4. Traditional supply chain ; cd-rom distribution, on-premise hosting
New supply chain ; cloud distribution model

5. PRODUCE
Infrastructure as a service
CONSUME
software as a service

6. CLOUD
+ fast de
rapid upd livery,
ates, Ela
stic,
pay-per-u
se
- Data ou
organiza tside of y
tion, trus our own
t and con
trol

7. Beyond the hype...
›Your personal ‘USB-cloud-drive in your pocket’ ?

8. Power and size of the cloud
A credit card is all you need
to use the Amazon facilities

9. For users not
' shadow IT '
Hom e org ani z at io ns respo n sib le : h av e le gal obl i gati on but real IT !
to pro te c t d a ta (P ersona lly I dent ifiable I n f o r m ati o n )

10. cloud principles
Research and higher education organizations in the Netherlands
will move to the cloud together, via SURF.

11. cloud principles
1
C lo u d f ir s t st ra t e g y
Provide IT services as much as possible via the public cloud.
When the required services are not available,
or when they cannot be used due to legal considerations,
community cloud services (specifically tailored to the needs of higher
education) will be implemented.

12. vendor management & cloud brokering
servi
ce spe
cifica
tions
price
secur
ity &
priva
c y
Legis
(nati lation
o
'inter nal, EU,
natio U
nal c SA
louds
')
data
porta
bility
inter
opera
bility
Negotiate & procure together
Equal conditions for all SURF members (1 million users)
1 distribution channel

13. http://bit.ly/UnnU5D

14. http://bit.ly/PHYZXL

15. cloud principles
Users should be able decide which devices and applications they use.
Let them choose between multiple cloud vendors and cloud services
(multi-vendor approach).

16. ? ›Which one ?
›Both !

17. A lot of clouds....
Confluence
Cisco fragmented
WebEx
'islands'
Microsoft
Office365 Liferay
Box.net
IBM
SAP
Connections
Google Streamwork
Apps
Joomla
EDUgroepen
Interconnect
Services from multiple vendors

18. Cross-organisational collaboration....
Users and teams from different organisations

19. cloud principles
Provide added value by means of
a collaboration infrastructure,
which interconnects cloud services and users

21. Cloud
Institute U
service A
Institute V Cloud
service B
Institute W Cloud
service C
Institute X Internal
service A
Institute Y Internal
service B
Institute Z Internal
service C

22. User databases and user control at institutes
Federated authentication and identity management
to access cloud services (single sign-on).
Unified group management and authorization
A single point of control where users can manage their teams.
These group-related privileges (roles) are automatically used and
updated in all connected cloud services.
Open, data exchange
Use components (widgets) to build your own team workspace.
Social networking between online services.

23. Gartner about SURFconext
“SURFconext
demonstrates a clear trend that
superstructures built by
organizations such as those of the
National Research and Education
Network (NREN)
are better positioned to deliver
academic collaboration
functionality
than individual institutions.”

24. use agree
demand supply
distribute connect

25. online services
Software as a Service
Generic & business services
Video & Unified Communication services
Education & content services
Research services
Open source services
Online content
Infrastructure as a Service

26. SURFCONEXT
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR SERVICE
PROVIDERS

28. http://bit.ly/Onrptb
Online services via SURF : status / tracking & tracing

29. RETURN pure
cloud
players
EFFORT

31. Implement together at higher education & research; vendor and SURF
- Google: 13 organizations, 240.000 users

38. MEDIASALSA
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen & Inuits

43. “The Life Science Grid portal contains a number of bioinformatics
applications which you can use. No knowledge about Grid is
necessary. You don't even need a Grid certificate. What we do ask
from you is to register as a user with a valid email address.”

45. Using the SURFconext Liferay adapter that Proteon developed. Every
organization that is part of SURFnet can use Liferay to authenticate users

47. WordPress

50. Infrastructure as a Service
Microsoft Green
SARA IBM
Azure qloud
Vancis Amazon Atos
Choose the best option for your specific needs
Data portability Dashboard, manage use,
metering and billing

51. 12 oktober

52. 24 oktober

53. andres@surfnet.nl
@steijaert Everyone interested in
W www.surf.nl/cloud more information
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+ 31 30 2 305 305
ANDRES STEIJAERT