A 10-minute lightning talk by Matt Johnson at the Eduserv Symposium 2011 - Virtualisation and the Cloud.

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

2. What?

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Why?

7. 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

8. To replace this…

9. …with this:

10. And this…

11. …with this:

12. And all for less: £££

13. Where?

14. 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

15. When?

16. 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

17. 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/ © McMorrows