Finding the right cloud solution for your organisation

Can't see the sky for the clouds?

» Jisc and cloud services – Dan Perry, Jisc

» Microsoft Azure – Mark McManus, Microsoft

» Amazon Web Services – Steven Bryen, AWS

» Jisc using cloud services – Mike Jones, Jisc

On the menu…

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» Benefits (sometimes…)

› Agility – access to better services, quickly, when needed

› Economies of scale

› Better use of capital not buying idle infrastructure

› Better use of campus estate

› Options from colocation to cloud

› Cost savings

Campus centric to service centric – universities, colleges & services are moving off-campus

Why clouds?

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Jisc and cloud services

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» Aggregation, aggregation, aggregation

› National and international scale solutions

› Due diligence once, with the sector for the sector

› National agreements and procurements

› Impartial point with experience and expertise

› Represent on issues such as data protection and security

…and build this on a world class network

Why Jisc and clouds?


Infrastructure for cloud services



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Working together to broker servicesFrom vendor or customer/ group

Sector priorities and sponsorship including direct involvement

(e.g. on requirements)

Procurement, Framework or DPS if appropriate (e.g. File sync & share)

Team including sector representation to ensure the output

meets customer needs

Enquiry

Scoping

Sector Mandate

Initial Evaluation

Negotiation / Due Diligence

Service Validation

Pilot

Procurement

General Service

Review (and sunset)



» Professional organisations

» Large market share

» Large potential impact for our sector

» Value for both vendor and sector

» International approach

» Shared goals (e.g. reducing costs)

» Long term investments and relationships with benefits from technology to research sponsorship

Working with largest global providers to broker services


Microsoft and Amazon

Working with Jisc for research and education

Find out more…

Contact…

Dan PerryDirector, product and marketing

[email protected]

jisc.ac.uk

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

Jisc and Microsoft

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Jisc and Microsoft The Cloud Story so far….


£1.3mSavings

NoCap!

Education benefits from the Jisc and Microsoft relationship


» Jisc legal review of Azure Terms

» Highest level discount – Band D

» Academic Azure Package

» Enterprise Portal

» Existing Procurement via Microsoft agreement

» GCloud framework

Microsoft Azure in Education

Announcing Microsoft Azure academic offer



Microsoft Azure academic offer




Security is key


The need for Hybrid

Identity

Virtualization

DataPlatform

DevelopmentDevOps and mgmt

Why are Education customers choosing Microsoft Azure?


» Hybrid strategy resonates with Academia

» Familiarity

» Easy to extend services

» Extension of existing services

» Procurement via existing Microsoft agreement



Enterprise Class Services

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud

Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS)Gartner Magic Quadrant for

Enterprise Application Platform as

a Service(PaaS)

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public

Cloud Storage Services

Gartner Magic Quadrant for

Virtualization

Market Endorsement


Accelerating Drug Design

Microsoft Azure in Research

Microsoft Azure in Research



» Largest VM Specifications available» Premium Storage >50,000 IOPS

under SLA» Bill per minute usage» 17 Datacentres with more

planned – 2 in EU» Machine Learning (Predictive

Analysis)» Native support for VM’s

Continued development


» Jisc and Microsoft benefits Education

» Microsoft Azure Offers

» Hybrid is what Education wants

» Microsoft Azure offers verified Security

» Procurement via existing Microsoft agreement



In Conclusion

Find out more…

Contact…

Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND

Mark McManusEducation Cloud Manager, Microsoft

[email protected]

www.azure.comwww.Microsoft.com

http://www.azure.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/

AWS for Education and Research

Steven Bryen

World Wide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services

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Enterprise

ApplicationsVirtual Desktop Sharing & Collaboration

Platform

ServicesAnalytics App Services

Deployment and

ManagementMobile Services

Administration

& Security

Identity

Management

Access

Control

Usage

Auditing

Key

Storage

Monitoring

And Logs

Core

ServicesCompute Storage CDN Databases Networking

Infrastructure Regions Availability Zones Points of Presence

AWS Building Blocks

Secure Email


Education and Research – Cloud Use Cases

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HPC Learning Management Systems

Departmental Websites Lecture Capture

MOOCsDistance Learning

Storage and Backup

Corporate IT Services

Disaster RecoveryStudent Labs


Education Customers using AWS

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Lecture Capture Scalable Web Applications Research Computing

High Throughput Computing Learning Management Systems Massive Online Open Courses


An easier way

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+ +


The Jisc Portal

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• Control cost across departments

• OJEU-compliant procurement

• Monthly Invoicing with GBP Billing

• Volume discounts through aggregation

• Set spending limits per user or department


Learn more…

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janet.arcusglobal.com


https://janet.arcusglobal.com/

Find out more…

Contact…

Steven BryenSolutions Architect, AWS

[email protected]

@steven_bryen

Jisc told Mimas to use the cloud; what happened next was amazing...

The turn of Mike Jones Mimas Jisc; Digital Resources

“Dear Mimas,How long would it take to migrateinto the cloud if you started tomorrow?Love Jisc”

~10 Production Services and 10-20 projectsacross ~80 Nodes ~120TB

Sun VMware Stand Alone Servers

14 VMs(+14)

30 VMs75 x 300 GB Disk Clariion

HP P2000 SAN 40TB

75 x 300 GB Disk Clariion

Dell Powervault 8TB

+Native server storage

Storage

Ja.net (via University)~128 Public IPs~750 DNS Records~30 Zones

Connectivity Not to mentionserviceselsewhere:- Kit at Unitel- HEA- wordpress.com- ...


erm...

We decided we needed lots of this:

IaaS

For a number of reasons, mostly procurement and spending public money related:

3 months of head scratching ensued

» We want IaaS

» Use the “Jisc Cloud”

» There is no spoon

» GOTO 10

First problem, navigate the hearsay


» Buy cloud though the Janet Framework Agreement

› One couldn't, what you could do was this...

– Rent machine room space

– Procure machines

– You could build a “Cloud”

Second problem ask (and re-ask, and re-ask) for what we wanted: IaaS


Third Problem

tl; dr

Fourth problem

What exactly does Peering mean?

11th hour solution

“Jisc Cloud Services” Arcus Global and AWS

We threw Historical Texts at AWS

» Trial and error

» Ingesting data elasticity

Key points using Cloud


Currently:

AWS Azure Arkivum

50 VMs(Ubuntu LTS VMs)

EBS (10-200 GB each)

S3 Buckets(Snapshots)(data fuse mounts)

Route 53 (35 hosted zones)(700 Records)

3 VMs2 Windows

1 Linux

Pipeline


» Mimas would spend at least ~£600k on kit per 3-5 years refresh

» Mimas would spend ~£250k p.a. on local support: 3 dedicated external FTEs

» Mimas would spend ~£85k p.a. on internal support: 1 internal FTE.

» Mimas would also pay salary overheads on all staff ~£15k p.c. p.a.

› a proportion of which would be donated the the ongoing support of University IT

» ~£400k p.a. to support Mimas services

Would spend this


» £60k p.a for basic services

» ~£20k p.a. for HT big data

» Copac & Zetoc uses Oracle (complicated)

» Archive £15k p.a. (Arkivum)

» Me and perhaps another £150k

» Lets say £300k pa

Current estimates


» Finding the right cloud solution for your organisation – the experience of Newcastle University – 3.30-4pm

› Caleb Racey, Systems Architecture Manager, Newcastle University

» Cloud Surgery – 4pm – 4.30pm

› Dan Perry, Director of Product and Marketing, Jisc

› Phil Richards, Chief Innovation Officer, Jisc

Signpost to other sessions


Find out more…

Contact…

Dan Perry – [email protected]

Phil Richards – [email protected]

Mark McManus – [email protected]

Steven Bryen – [email protected]

Mike Jones – [email protected]

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