The UMF Cloud Pilot

The UMF Cloud Pilot
What, Why, Where and When?
Matt Johnson, Head of Research, Eduserv

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

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

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 Johnson
Head of Research
email: Matt.Johnson@eduserv.org.uk
twitter: @mhj_work
web: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/research
FleSSR: http://flessr.blogspot.com/
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The UMF Cloud Pilot

by Eduserv on May 16, 2011

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