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A presentation about the UMF Cloud Pilot, given at the UCISA CISG Conference 2011 in Manchester.
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UMF Cloud Pilot
andy.powell@eduserv.org.uk
@andypowe11
umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk
What is the UMF Cloud Pilot?
• compute and storage cloud• infrastructure as a service (IaaS)• designed to address the major concerns of HEIs
– data remains in the UK at all times– operated for the long-term benefit
of the UK academic sector– integrated with the JANET network– lower the costs associated
with IT provisioning
• a community cloud for education
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Delivered by Eduserv
• not-for-profit IT services company• best known in HEIs for OpenAthens and CHEST• web hosting and development for government• 20 year sustainable track record of growth
– >3.5m registered users of Eduserv-based services– 115 staff - turnover of £16.5m in 2009/10– new datacentre in Swindon specifically for
education and the public sector
• charitable mission to encouragethe effective use of ICT in‘public good’ organisations
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Delivered from
• our Swindon Data Centre– capacity and power for >600 racks of infrastructure– modular design– PUE efficiency design of <1.4– 10 Gbit/s JANET backbone connectivity via
new JANET PoP
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Hardware
• Cisco UCS blade infrastructure– dual 6-core 3.06GHz processors with 64GB RAM– initial deployment will scale to >1,500 cores, 8 TB of RAM
• Isilon storage– clustered NAS solution with near-SAN performance– initial deployment will scale to 10PB usable
• connectivity– 2-tier Cisco switched network (core and
distribution)– fully resilient with no single point of
failure (including dual path toJANET PoP)
– all ports running at 10 Gbit/s
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Our offer
• vCloud Compute• OpenStack Compute• VM Storage• File Storage• JANET Connectivity
all accessed via a self-service portalintegrated with the UK AccessManagement Federation with possibilityof long term tape archiving in the future
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Timescales
• now– vCloud Compute ‘lab’ environment for use by UMF-funded
SaaS projects
• Jan 2012– vCloud Compute general availability
• April 2012– self-service Web portal– full billing infrastructure– OpenStack Compute availability– File Storage beta
• …beyond– storage ‘preservation’ tier– multiple datacentres
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Pricing models
• 2 pricing models– PAYG (pay for what you use)– Virtual Datacentre (pay for what you reserve)
• in mobile phone terms, PAYG vs. Pay Monthly• why PAYG?
– flexibility
• why Virtual Datacentre?– predictability
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Billing
• PAYG billed monthly in arrears against pre-registered credit card
• Virtual Datacentre billed monthly or annually– credit card or by invoice– annual tariff billed in advance– discounts of up to 30% for annual
commitment– over-usage billed at PAYG rates
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Pricing
• 3 key principles– return on investment by/for the community– sustainability– competitive
• prices formally available on Monday• all prices ex-VAT• we will probably offer some kind
of ‘introductory tier’ forinstitutions
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Concluding remarks
• we’d welcome feedback on:– the cloud platforms we support– pricing and billing models– anything else…
• get in touch at umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk(where we are also blogging our progress)
Questions?
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