Cloud Migration Campfire Stories

CSG Short WorkshopSpring 2014, Notre Dame

Cloud Campfire Stories

Note: We do not have survey results!

Cloud Campfire Stories

Stories from each camper: Stanford, Notre Dame, Duke, UW(maybe) Break (2:45-ish)Columbia, Cornell, Harvard(maybe)Panel

Cloud Campfire Stories

Cloud Campfire Stories

HIPAA

Cloud Adoption at Stanford

• Broad use of SaaS• Some significant PaaS usage• Emerging IaaS deployments

Everybody’s a player

• All you need is an email address and a credit card…

• SaaS for all vs. all for SaaS

Not everyone wants to be a player

• Vendor management• Gnarly policy issues• Systems engineering complexities• Integration complexities

AWS Deployments

• Class2Go, etc.• Several research groups• Emergency status• Next month, go-live for homepage

Amazon Web Services

AWS training:• 45 technical staff have taken three day

“Architecting for AWS” course• 15 more in early June.

This has brought distributed interests out of shadows/silos.

Amazon Web Services

Challenges:• Consolidation• Data classification, compliance and FUD• Policy and Risk Management need further

refactoring

• DirectConnect

Google Compute

• Shiny but rough• Lots of interest in/from research computing• Google willing to talk leveraging existing

peering and SDN with us

Other IaaS and the “Virtual Datacenter”

• Before doing more vendor specific work, it’s time for an abstraction layer!

• Consider all the process and expertise IT provides to deliver on datacenter services…much of that translates.

More of everything

• I don’t see fewer computing instances• More service administration• Seeing benefits of consolidation, automation

and virtualization• Integration to infrastructure• Integration between SaaS to ____

Pass the flashlight over to Sharif