Toward the Clouds, Together !Collaboration effort of European NRENs in Cloud Computing

Branko Radojević, Deputy Director, CARNet/GEANTTF-MSPBudapest, 15.9.2014.

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GEANT3plus, SA7 - GOALS

A new activity in GN3+ project which handles:

Support to Clouds

The NRENs working together in GEANT, want to bring cloud services to the European Research and Education community, through a model where they are able to provide their users with:

• choice• openess, ease of use

• a safe and secure work and learning environment

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CLOUD QUESTIONAIRE

NRENs’ perception of clouds?

Which cloud components NRENs have in place and are

planning to consume and produce?

How NRENs can collaborate on clouds

through GN3plus,

in the Support to Clouds activity (SA7) ?

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CLOUD QUESTIONAIRE

High response rate (27 respondents from 23 NRENs)

Two-thirds (66%) of the respondents indicate that cloud services have had an impact on their organisation, with 40% stating that impact is “high to very-high”.

NRENs find cloud services appealing because of their flexibility:

• faster deployment of new services (agility)• easily scaled (elasticity)• most cloud services are easy to use

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CLOUD QUESTIONAIRE

Majority of the NRENs (80%) are already “working on clouds”, with half of the respondents doing this through one or more specific ‘cloud teams’ within their organisation Only four NRENs are dealing with clouds in a well-structured manner, with a clear underlying strategy. Most NRENs are still in a start-up phase for their cloud efforts, which indicates opportunities for joint activities

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CLOUD QUESTIONAIRE

Almost all NRENS believe they shouldprovide and operate their own cloud services

(22 responses).The survey indicates that NRENs are willing to share components and offer services provided by

other NRENs (ranging from a third to a half, depending on the type of service).

About half of the responding NRENs want tobroker cloud services (from commercial providers).

A total of 19% of the respondents are already offering one or more services.

Half of the respondents want to Integrate cloud services.

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Buy or Build?

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How to achieve this?

GEANT – Support to Clouds

Activities in four tasks:

STRATEGY

STANDARDISATION

BROKERAGE

INTEGRATION

ADOPTION

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Y2

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How to achieve this?

Task 3 concentrates on Cloud Brokerage and Vendor Management

Two main teams:

PROCUREMENT TEAM

VENDOR MANAGEMENT TEAM(with multiple sub-teams per service type)

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Procurement Team

Analyze available models:

Traditional Procurement – one winner per service type?

Traditional Procurement – multiple winners per service type?

Less rigid model?– cloud service certification!

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Vendor Management Teams

One of the easiest way to reach vendors attention:

Demand Aggregation

CARNet

0.8 M users

DFN

6 M users

SURFNet

3 M users

NREN X

X Mkor.

NREN X

X Mkor.

NREN X

X Mkor.

NREN X

X Mkor.

NREN X

X M users

GEANT – total of 50 million users

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Vendor Management Teams

Cloud Services by Type (sub-teams):

IaaS (SoftLayer, Cloud Sigma, T-Systems, GreenQloud, ATOS,

Microsoft Azure, RackSpace, Amazon, ...)

On-line Office (Google, Microsoft, IBM, ...)

Web collaboration tools (Adobe, Cisco, Google, Blue Jeans, IBM ...)

Cloud storage (Google Drive, SkyDrive, DropBox, BOX, ...)

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Vendor Management Teams

Talk to Vendors and try to achieve best possible deals (best terms & conditions, added value, data

protection, ...)

Talk to NRENs (like GRNET) which would like to act as a vendors toward other NRENs

Show to vendors that it is easier to talk with us, instead of 30+ separate NRENs (and every time from the

beginning)

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Helping Vendors & NRENs

To help vendors and NRENs, we are working on several documents:

• Terms and Conditions Requirements (FINAL)• Market Analysis & Predictions in EU R&E Comm. (RC)

• Technical Guidelines for Cloud Services (D)• Integration with eduGAIN (FINAL)• Peering with GEANT (D)

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The Goal

Establish Cloud dustribution model

GEANT cloud framework establish clarity on conditions of use, define requirements

GEANT cloud “certification” program apply framework: engage providers, certify compatible cloud services

GEANT cloud catalogue make “certified” services available in an online portfolio

NRENs, cloud procurement contracting and adoption

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Ultimate Goal

Have at least two vendors in catalogue from

each service type by the end of this year

(December 2014).

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Key benefits of our approach

Vendors• Talk to one entity (GEANT) – access all users• Promote vendor as a trusted partner• Share with vendors what our users require• Get access to fast network toward all users• Simplify AAI integration

NRENs (Institutions)• Use cloud catalogue to get the information about CS• Use already prepared terms & conditions • Simplify procurement process

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