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