The UMF Cloud PilotWhat, Why, Where and When?

Matt Johnson, Head of Research, Eduserv

What?

Cloud service designed specifically for education

Designed to address the major concerns of HEIs Data remains in the UK at all times Operated for the long-term benefits of the UK academic sector Integrated with the JANET network Lower the costs associated with IT provisioning

Pilot to run for 1 year Key outcome is to establish sustainable business models

Key service components

Compute services: Vmware vSphere virtualised environment OpenStack Compute on-demand cloud environment Microsoft Hyper-V capability

Storage services: Tiered block and file-level storage Long-term data archiving capability

Web portal access

Infrastructure scale (planned)

Compute infrastructure: Blade-based X64 hardware Virtual instances from 1 GB – 32 GB memory, 1-4 vCPUs

Storage services: > 200 TB initially, scalable to multi-PB Scalable multi-tier archiving service

Network connectivity 10 Gbit/s dual-circuit connectivity onto SuperJANET

Why?

To help realise potential benefits of the Cloud

For the Community As a scalable platform for shared service development Platform that addresses performance, contract and service levels

For Institutions Offering a viable alternative to on-campus datacentre projects Helping to lower CO2 emissions and IT overheads

For Faculty On-demand access to high-capacity storage & compute services

To replace this…

…with this:

And this…

…with this:

And all for less:

£££

Where?

HE Pilot Cloud facility

Hosted at Eduserv’s Swindon Datacentre Owned and operated by Eduserv Capacity and power for >600 racks of infrastructure PUE efficiency design of <1.4 JANET backbone connectivity

Operated by Eduserv 24 x 7 systems monitoring 99.9% SLA

When?

Anticipated timelines

Summer 2011 Shared services platform Service desk and community support

Autumn 2011 Web portal with UK access management federation integration Cloud compute and storage platform

Winter 2011 Sustainable business model agreed

Thank you!

Matt JohnsonHead of Research email: Matt.Johnson@eduserv.org.uk twitter: @mhj_work web: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/researchFleSSR: http://flessr.blogspot.com/

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