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Hybrid Clouds & Mini Pods

This document discusses the potential for hybrid clouds and "mini pods" to help universities and colleges significantly reduce IT costs. It proposes creating local "mini pod" data centers at each university along with utilizing large, remote "industrial scale" data centers via the national JANET network. This hybrid cloud model could incrementally transition services to the cloud, allow staff to retain their jobs, provide an exit strategy if needed, and save over £100 million total by taking advantage of economies of scale at remote data centers. The JANET network is well positioned to act as a broker between universities and cloud providers to help achieve these cost savings.

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Hybrid Clouds & Mini PodsEduserv Symposium 201112 MayDr Phil RichardsDirector of IT, Loughborough University
OverviewThe problem we are trying to solve?Definition of cloudCommodity and complexity ITWhat are large IT organisations doing?Do what I say, not what I doHybrid cloud: de-risking the cloudThe killer app for HE FE cloud?JANET brokerage – national grid for cloud
The problem we are trying to solveSave £100Ms from £23Bn UK HE turnover~ 2% spent on servers and storage = £460MCan we save 50% of £460M?
Definition of cloud“Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”(US National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Commodity vs complexity ITComplexity ITinsource, innovateCommodity IToutsource, shareDynamic equilibrium
Commodity vs complexity ITCloud for qualityCloud for savingsComplexity ITinsource, innovateCommodity IToutsource, shareDynamic equilibrium
HP consolidation projectCreate ‘private cloud’Data centres: 85 6 (3 x pairs)Applications 6000 3000Investment: $100Ms to create own JANETSaving: $1Bn per annum revenue(Source: eweek.com)Lesson: ‘industrial scale’ key to savings
What is ‘industrial scale’?“… construction of extremely large-scale, commodity-computer data centres at low-cost locations… uncovered the factors of 5 to 7 decrease in cost of electricity, bandwidth, operations, software and hardware at these very large economies of scale.”Armburst, Armando Fox et al.,Above the Clouds, Berkeley
Industrial-scale European data centresSource: Greenpeace report ‘How dirty is your data?’, April 2011
The ‘killer app’ for HE FE cloud?Research tools?Shared administrative applications?Cheap virtual servers (IaaS) via hybrid cloudOrganic change: current IT staff retain job and roleCost savings if remote cloud ‘industrial scale’Performance, security OK if via JANET BrokerageExit strategy: risk mitigated by migration back to local cloud
Where are suppliers angling?PSN counter example – Wales PSBA, grew out of JANETwww.psba.org.ukHybrid cloud IaaS counter-example – we may need to make it ourselves with Eduserv and Logicalis
De-risking the cloud and avoiding major buildLoughborough’s Hybrid CloudCo-operative CloudAvoid refurbSave £Ms+OJEU competitive dialogue for buy-inLocal cloud2 x ‘mini-pods’Logicalis BOCSRemote cloudvia‘Traditional’data centreto retire
Summary: possible ingredients for large-scale cloud successIncremental change via IaaS virtual servers and storageStaff retain jobs and outlet for skills – no barrierUniversity apps to differentiate and compete as neededDe-risk transition via IaaS hybrid cloudLocal cloud mini-pods avoid data centre new build costEasy rollback/exit strategy from remote cloud£100M+ cost savings from industrial scale IaaS remote cloudBut we will really have to force suppliers to provide this – or DIYJANET as national grid for ‘utility’ IaaS remote cloudJANET is already in place!JANET to set and assure standards and security levelsJANET to act as ‘broker’ for competitive HE FE deals or DIY
JANET – our ‘national grid’ for hybrid cloud brokerage Remote industrialdata centre 2 Remote industrialdata centre 1 University or College local clouds
JANET – our ‘national grid’ for hybrid cloud brokerage Remote industrialdata centre 2 Remote industrialdata centre 1 University or College local clouds Test data centres