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NREN collaboration in GÉANT: To enable and facilitate the Research and Education community to use online services on a large scale, with the right conditions
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CLOUD POWER
NREN collaboration in GÉANT
to enable and facilitate
the Research and Education community
to use online services
on a large scale, with the right conditions
@ STF
MARCH 24 Andres Steijaert
Collaboration on online (cloud) services
from technical components,
to organizational and financial aspects;
aggregation of demand and expertise,
joint service delivery.
Network peerings
GÉANT DOES NOT BUILD OR OPERATE A
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
OTHERS DO,
R&E PROJECTS & INSTITUTIONS
COMMERCIAL PROVIDERS
REQUIREMENTS CATALOGUE
STRATEGY STANDARDS
COLLABORATION
SUITES
REALTIME
COMMUNICATION
FILE STORAGE
AND SYNC
INFRASTRUCTURE
AS A
SERVICE
ADOPTION
FOUNDATION
AREAS
MAKE & BUY
IN-HOUSE & OUTSOURCED
Collaborate,
to enable and facilitate our community
to use online services
on a large scale, with the right conditions
Online services should be
accessible, safe, integrated, affordable, predictable, easy to use
through aggregating demand and expertise,
aligning roadmaps and joint efforts.
Organisational, technical and financial structures
in Research and Education institutions
often don't map on the way cloud providers offer their services
GET IN
Assure data is handled safely and meets
European and national regulations.
Acquire services through the
institutions’ purchasing structures:
Predictable cost models (prevent bill shock)
Limit network traffic costs
Log in with institutional account
GET OUT
Be able to to move data
(to another provider)
Network peerings with cloud providers
Best, most direct connection between providers and R&E community;
latency, bandwidth, data protection.
Reduce network ingress and egress charges, to achieve more predictable cost models
Currently connected to NRENsor directly to GÉANT
HELIX NEBULA providers
ATOS connected to REDiris
CloudSigma connected to SWITCH
Interoute connected to GÉANT in London
T-systems connected to GÉANT at VIX
BOX
eduZONE
23/03/2015 7
Network peerings with cloud providers
In progress
Code42
Microsoft (connected to Janet, discussions with SURFnet, scaling up to pan-European level though SA7)
Amazon (discussions with Janet, discussions with SA7 about pan-European delivery)
Greenqloud (connected to Nordunet, used by SURFnet, can go pan-European)
At the moment non-production connections – pilot status
Exploring suitable models for production
Institute U
Institute V
Institute W
Institute X
Institute Y
Institute Z
Cloud Service A
Cloud Service B
Cloud Service C
Internal Service A
Internal Service B
Fed
IdM
One safe account for the cloud
Connect providers to eduGAIN
Internal Service C
Enable joint
delivery and adoption
FOUNDATIONFOR ONLINE SERVICES
Compact set of pre-conditions which cloud providers are expected to meetIntellectual property rights and ownership, legal aspects, security, continuity, confidentiality, communication, billing, technical requirements
Providers’ responses are made available in the GÉANT Cloud Catalogue online services directory
• Provide clarity
• to cloud providers, regarding the requirementsof the Research and Education community
• to the Research and Education community, regarding capabilities of cloud providers
• Provide choice
23/03/2015 11
Essential conditions of use – bring trust
Cloud requirements
Six pages; easily readable
available at:http://services.geant.net/clouds/Activities/Pages/Supporting_Suppliers.aspx
Intellectual property rights and
ownership, legal aspects,
security, continuity,
confidentiality, communication,
billing, technical requirements
Collaboration suites, realtime communication
Microsoft Office 365
EduZone EZ-Moodle
Pending: Google Apps
Infrastructure as a ServiceAdvania
CloudSigma
Eduzone EZ-Infrastructure
Okeanos
Microsoft Azure
Pending: Amazon AWS
Current services in the cloud catalogue
File storage and syncBOXCrashplanShareplan
OtherEduZone EZ-AntiSPAMNetskope Cloud Access Security Brokerage
• A group of NRENs, is collaborating on file storage platforms (including using OwnCloud).
• Another group of NRENs is exploring joint efforts in IaaS solutions (through GRNET Okeanos and OpenStack)
• RENATER is offering their Rendez-Vous web conferencing service to other NRENs (https://rendez-vous.renater.fr)
• Several NRENs, including CARNet and CESNET are offering the Office 365 collaboration suite to their community.
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Community cloud collaborations
GÉANT
InstituteZ
INSTITUTE Y
INSTITUTEX
Frameworkagreements
Use
1
2a
2b
Joint demand aggregation and procurement
Bring the economies of scale
to achieve more favourable conditions of use
Started a collective tender for IaaS cloud services
TRANSACTIONSFOR ONLINE SERVICES
Buying services is difficult
Cloud Providers work with
‘end-user credit card models’.
Our community operates
‘institutional Purchase Order based’.
Institutions are afraid of ‘bill shock’
OPEX can be big, also due to
network charges.
Costs need to be predictable.
We can use our network
to reduce data network traffic costs.
Intranet: https://intranet.geant.net/SA7/
News and information sharinghttps://www.yammer.com/geantcloud/
Cloud aggregation and procurement project
Workshops
Bi-weekly online meetings
Join us