1. Agenda
 Prelude
 Cloud First
 Highlights 2011
 Action plan 2012
 CIO wishes
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2. Prelude
 Cloud Computing is inevitable
 Cloud Computing has penetrated the personal life
of Students and Staff
 Cloud Computing may bring profits to the
institutions of Higher Education
 We must act NOW
 We must act TOGETHER
 SURF will facilitate, coordinate, initiate, disseminate
 SURF Taskforce Cloud Computing
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3. Cloud First
 Public Cloud for commodity services
 Community Cloud
 managed by “ourselves”
 comply with Dutch or EU law
 develop new common services
 virtual private cloud
 On Premises if all else fails
 Concept Vision published (position paper july 2011)
 discussed by stakeholders in HE
 adopted by University Executives (November 8)
 adopted by SURF executive board (November 26)
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4. Highlights 2011
 Cloud vendor meetings (what can you do for us?)
 IAAS pilot SURFnet (GreenQloud)
 SURFconext collaboration infrastructure
 Agreement SURF-Google (apps)
(EU law, SURFconext coupling)
 knowledge dissemination (SURFnet/Kennisnet)
 website www.surf.nl/cloud
 Sourcing Toolbox (collaboration with CIO council)
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5. Action plan 2012
 further develop Cloud First strategy
(reference architecture, business cases)
 help institutions to develop a sourcing policy
(cloud computing = sourcing option)
 vendor management and webshop (SURFspot)
 Further Develop SURFconext
(making more services “SURfconext aware”)
 support institutions implementing Cloud Services
 develop joint privacy poicy
“From Innovation to Implementation”
 adopted by CIOs December 8, 2011
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6. CIO wishlist
 pilots and sandbox environments
 keep the Boards committed
 manage expectations
 allow variation in adoption speed (each institution
their own road into the cloud)
 Sense of Urgency: keep up with students and staff
(cloud users in their personal life)
 SURF as a provider of cloud services (IaaS)
 SURF as “flying cloud doctors”
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