The document discusses opportunities and challenges for higher education and research organizations in adopting cloud services. It argues that cloud services allow these organizations to provide more flexible IT services to users at lower costs. However, security, privacy, and interoperability challenges must be addressed through collaboration between research networks. The document proposes that GÉANT establish a framework to help research networks develop cloud strategies and integrate cloud services while ensuring standards and best practices.
2. 2 BILLION PEOPLE ONLINE
30% OF WORLD POPULATION
IT USEDTO BE SCARCE
NOW AVAILABLE IN ABUNDANCE
multi-device
multi-service
Consumerization & commoditization
End user push
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5. Cloud computing from a user perspective:
Consuming ready to use online services,
provided by external providers,
through a pay-per-use model.
users are choosers
removal of entry barriers
Users will choose the easiest path
Not about ‘how’ it is produced
but about ‘what’ is offered
what do I need now
6. For users not
' shadow IT '
but real IT !Home organizations responsible: have legal obligation
to protect data (Personally Identifiable Information)
7. Traditional supply chain ; cd-rom distribution, on-premise hosting
New supply chain ; cloud distribution model
8. Traditional supply chain ; cd-rom distribution, on-premise hosting
New supply chain ; cloud distribution model
+ fast delivery,rapid updates, elastic,pay-per-use
- Data outside of your own
organization, trust and control
Cloud
9. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate
Opportunities
Cloud services offer higher education and research organisations
the opportunity to become more agile and provide their users
with a wider range of relevant IT services at a faster pace and
fulfill user demand.
IT departments can use the instant availability and elasticity of
cloud services (rapid expansion or contraction of capacity) to
reduce development time and modify their expenditure profile,
reducing the need for periodic and large capital expenditure
(capex) to a smoother, increased, more predictable operational
expenditure (opex, pay-per-use model)
10. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate
Opportunities
Cloud services allow higher education and research to
add value to their users
New Services
Innovative Services
Increased Collaboration
Reduced Development and Capital Costs
Integrating public services reduces training and support
for users
Increased flexibility, reduced risk
11. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate
Challenges
The standard delivery of cloud services by commercial organisations
is often incompatible with the requirements of higher education and research.
There are significant challenges on trust, security, privacy, legislation and regulation.
These issues have different implications between cloud services used in a private
capacity, compared to services used within an education or research environment,
where the ownership of data and the need to ensure strong custodial control are
important.
There are also issues regarding data portability and interoperability.
Vendors have a commercial imperative to maintain users and reduce churn within
their user base and so have little incentive to collaborate with competitors on these
issues.
The cloud is evolving rapidly. Users are making these choices now. In its most basic form
and from an user perspective, the cloud is about consuming ready to use online services,
provided by external providers, through a pay-per-use model.There is a real danger that
if NRENs and institutions do nothing, users will drift into fragmented islands
of incompatible services that may not have a sustainable future.
12. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate
Cloud services
Empower users to consume the online services
they want and need:
users are choosers
Disrupt the traditional software distribution
model and supply chain;
Require collaboration between research and
education organisations,
to prevent 'cloud fragmentation'
and provide interoperability and security.
Connect the clouds Together !
13. support to clouds
Help NRENs to bring cloud services to their users
with the right conditions of use
14. Build a framework for NRENs to develop their cloud strategies
Agree standards for cloud services
Improve interoperability
Develop and share cloud best practices
Broker inter-NREN contracts and manage vendors (demand aggregation)
Integrate cloud services with NREN infrastructure
15. The synergy between
An advanced network with fixed connections and mobile capabilities
A strong AAI middleware integration infrastructure
Attractive cloud service offerings
will propel higher education and research
16. The synergy between
An advanced network with fixed connections and mobile capabilities
A strong AAI middleware integration infrastructure
Attractive cloud service offerings
will propel higher education and research
Build on existing cloud service initiatives of the
GN3plus partners (NRENs) to quickly bootstrap
services for the broader GÉANT community.
Establish knowledge dissemination and information
exchange within the community on cloud computing
- evolve and learn together -
17. We need open, cross-organizational,
online collaboration (interoperability),
through standards: technical and legal
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What the cloud is
NOT
How to benefit from it, to support our users
BUT ABOUT
How to collaborate
within our R&E community and with the market
Which components can we consume from others?
What should we produce ourselves?
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20. Connect | Communicate | Collaborate
Technology Research & Development
GÉANT is at the forefront of Network R&D
The GÉANT fibre platform provides an
unrivaled testbed for advanced technologies
Research into innovative uses for these
services is key to ensuring NRENs can
support their users into the future.
21. Let users choose between multiple cloud vendors and cloud services
- multi-vendor approach -
Services provided by commercial vendors
Services from within community
22. Let users choose between multiple cloud vendors and cloud services
- multi-vendor approach -
Services provided by commercial vendors
Services from within community
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orks (NRENs
ces to their users.
ANT will help the community to
ect, purchase and manage cloud
rvices with the right conditions of
se; amongst them topics like
nteroperability, data portability,
ecurity and privacy.
demand acro
and negotiating integrated
brokerage and service delivery
(framework contracts, terms and
conditions of use) NRENs will be
able to get the best possible
value from cloud services.
MEET THE CLOUD SERVICES ACTIVITY
LEADER - ANDRES STEIJAERT
Andres Steijaert is the activity leaders for the GÉANT Support to Clouds Activity.
At SURFnet, as member of the SURFnet-taskforce Cloud, he initiated and
directed the cloud brokerage and vendor management activities. Previously
he worked as program manager on the development of the SURFconext
collaboration infrastructure; a middleware framework which interconnects
cloud vendors and higher education organisations in the Netherlands.
Andres is a frequent speaker on cloud computing.
Many NRENs are already offering valuable services using Cloud providers. SUNET in Sweden
has successfully integrated Box (www.box.com) into its offerings to provide a simple to use
Cloud Storage service to staff and researchers. By linking Box to SWAMID (the identity
federation for higher education in Sweden) the creation and management of accounts
is greatly simplified and allows for easier control. By February 2013, SUNET had 17 organisations,
with nearly 5000 users and approximately 9TByte of stored data using the service.
23. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Multi vendor strategy
Google and Microsoft
Integrate via standards (SAML, Grouper)
‘A tale of two clouds’
Terry Gray
http://bit.ly/aYfbwb
24. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON CLOUD STRATEGY
SHAPED BY FOUR KEY IDEAS
Our community is already using and benefiting from a wide variety of
cloud-based services, and it would be counterproductive to oppose their
use despite the institutional concerns that come with the cloud.
The university's risk profile would improve over the status quo by
establishing one or more preferred collaboration platforms, backed by
contract terms that address institutional risks.
We should use the cloud opportunity to encourage collaboration across all
sectors of our community (faculty, staff, and students) rather than, say, just
using cloud services to get out of the student e-mail business.
We should partner with both Microsoft and Google in order to provide
the best options to our very diverse population.
25. service specifications
price
security & privacy
Legislation(national, EU, USA
'international clouds')
data portability
interoperability
Use the value and size of our combined community
50 million users !
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27. Provide added value by means of
an infrastructure,
which interconnects cloud services and users
28. Institute X
InstituteY
Institute Z
Institute W
InstituteV
Institute U
Cloud
service B
Cloud
service C
Internal
service A
Internal
service B
Cloud
service A
Internal
service C
NREN
AAI
29. 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.”
30. support to clouds
Cloud strategy
Fulvio Galeazzi -
fulvio.galeazzi@garr.it
Cloud Standards
& Interoperability
Miroslav Ruda -
miroslav.ruda@cesnet.cz
Cloud integration
Panos Louridas -
louridas@grnet.gr
Cloud brokerage &
vendor management
Branko Radojević -
branko.radojevic@CARNet.hr
Collaboration on cloud services
in research & education
GN3plus, SA7
Andres Steijaert - andres@surfnet.nl
31. Cloud strategy
Establish a common strategy, based on
community requirements, shared
principles and values
STRATEGY
support to clouds
33. Cloud brokerage and
vendor management
Acquire and manage the delivery of
services from providers and provide
NRENs with a well-balanced portfolio
of cloud services.
BROKERAGE
STRATEGY
INTEROPERABILITY
support to clouds
34. Cloud integration
Facilitate the technical integration
and implementation work
needed to connect cloud services
to the
IT infrastructure of NRENs.
INTEGRATION
BROKERAGE
STRATEGY
INTEROPERABILITY
support to clouds
