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Outsourcing Data Centres to the Cloud?Opportunities and Risks
Dr. Anna LiuPrincipal Research LeaderNational ICT [email protected]
• Federal and state funded research company established in 2002
• Largest ICT research centre of excellence in Australia
• Research Excellence and Wealth Creation for Australia as key goals
• ~700 staff/students working in 5 labs across major capital cities
• University founding members
• Research outcome deployed
across 1 billion+ mobile
devices
NICTA – National ICT Australia
Where are we at?
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I want my cloud!
Hmm…lots of hype here?
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About NICTA
• Evaluating Cloud Computing
• Cloud migration and proof of concept Experience so far
• Looking forward to the future
Agenda
Why Cloud Computing
• Reduce cost and complexity• Economies of scale• Pay per usage
• Innovation Possibilities• Handling Big Data Sets• Service Delivery platform• Collaborative, engaging user experience
• Realising Green IT initiatives
Perceived Risks
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Lock in
Identity management
Ownership of data
interoperability
regulationprivacy
Return on investment
security
Integration with existing assets
Migration challenges
Service Level Agreement
Australian Cloud Adoption
• Software as a service• Enterprise and SME• Productivity suites, CRM• Telco and SaaS vendor partnership• emerging tier 2 System integrator
• Platform and Infrastructure as a Service• SME, startups well on their way• Enterprise doing evaluation
• Government Cloud, Community Cloud, Private Cloud• Data centre consolidation, SOA, shared services• Financial industry and government leadership• True cost benefit compared to public cloud?
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Typical Cloud Applications
• Internet scale web applications• User base from around the world• Integration with existing web APIs • Transient campaigns
• Many Mobile devices connecting to cloud• Good adoption in utilities industries
• Development/Test environment• Dynamic provisioning of dev/test resources• Pay for usage
• Bursty workload• Web apps
• Large scale data analysis• eScience, Financial risk calculations, Government statistical data
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A Line of Business Migration Experience
• Assessing feasibility in terms of• functional fit, Security, Performance, Cost benefit, • commercial implications, integration with existing
systems etc
• Key findings• Technically feasible (functionality, performance, security all ok)• Commercial and contract experience similar to retail purchase
experience• cost benefit observed• Integration with existing systems presents some challenges• Operationalise cloud use with existing process is non-trivial
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Infrastructure Configuration(VPN, VMs, Disk, …)
Infrastructure Configuration(VPN, VMs, Disk, …)
OS/
Appl
icat
ion
Secu
rity
(e.g
., Ac
tive
Dire
ctor
y)O
S/Ap
plic
atio
n Se
curit
y(e
.g.,
Activ
e D
irect
ory)
OS/Middleware Installation/ConfigurationOS/Middleware Installation/Configuration
OSPatching
OSPatching
Application Installation/ConfigurationApplication Installation/Configuration
ApplicationPatching
ApplicationPatching
Bill
ing
(Cos
t Cen
ter C
harg
ing)
Bill
ing
(Cos
t Cen
ter C
harg
ing)
AntivirusAntivirus OSBackup
OSBackup
OSMonitoring
OSMonitoring
App DataBackup
App DataBackup
ApplicationMonitoring
ApplicationMonitoring
Amazon EC2(IaaS providers)
InfrastructureMonitoring
(CPU, Disk, Net, …)
InfrastructureMonitoring
(CPU, Disk, Net, …)
Usage Reportand
Basic Billing
Usage Reportand
Basic Billing
Access Controlto IaaS
Access Controlto IaaS
Customers’ Responsibility in IaaS Cloud
Customers’Responsibility
Looking forward to the future
• There will be a class of applications that you will not move to a public cloud
• Classified, Sensitive data governed by regulation, compliance• Latency intolerant applications• Line of business applications that does not require the reach• Where cost benefit, and migration effort just doesn’t add up!
• Need to be ready to manage across local servers and remote public clouds
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NICTA Adaptive Cloud TechnologiesVisibility and Control Across Boundaries
• Extensible architectures supporting various plug-ins
• Diagnose and suggest optimal system configurations
• Auto generation of reconfiguration workflows
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Understandat a Glance
Public Cloud
In-House Data Center
Hybrid Cloud Environment
Diagnose and Plan
Your Future
Automate AdaptationsMonitor
Everything You Have
Monitoring Engine Decision Making Support
• Integrated monitoring across local and remote public clouds
• Works with existing enterprise monitoring and mgmt tools
Summary and Conclusion
• Cloud Computing can bring cost and efficiency benefits, good fit in a number of scenarios
• Some challenges and risks remain• Conduct proof of concept to ramp up readiness for your
team, gain insights for future business decisions• Need to anticipate a hybrid future of both local servers and
public cloud use
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Getting Involved
• Linkage with National ICT Australia
• Contract Research, Expert Advisory Services, Architecture Reviews
• Technology Trials• Public and In-house Training Courses • Market Surveys, Case Studies• Professional in Research Residence
[email protected], @annaliuhttp://blogs.unsw.edu.au/annaliu/