Paul Hopkins of HE Associates discusses the salient points from the JISC-funded Study of Early Adopters of Cloud Computing and Shared Services (FEAST Report)
- The UK has implemented a Federated Access Management (FAM) system across higher education, further education, and schools to enable single sign-on access to online resources. JISC and Becta jointly fund and manage the FAM infrastructure.
- FAM allows institutions to outsource identity and access management to external service providers while still maintaining local control over users and resources. It reduces costs through central negotiation of licenses by JISC Collections and leveraging the collective buying power of UK educational institutions.
- Future challenges include improving the user experience, defining service provider interfaces, increasing FAM usage and identity management capabilities, supporting walk-in users, and addressing issues like inter-federation and cost allocation between
EIB financing for broadband infrastructures - Jussi HÄTÖNEN - European Invest...IDATE DigiWorld
The document discusses broadband infrastructure financing by the European Investment Bank (EIB). It notes that while telecom operators invest billions annually in Europe, they focus on profitable urban areas and are unwilling to invest in rural areas without subsidies. Several governments have created subsidy programs to spur rural broadband rollout, but they remain fragmented. The EIB has provided over €12 billion in financing for 52 broadband projects since 2007, and is increasingly supporting fiber networks. It offers various financing instruments including loans to telecom companies, public sector entities, and infrastructure funds to help bridge financing gaps for broadband deployment.
This document summarizes a presentation by Roland Janssens of Frontier Markets Fund Managers on financing ICT infrastructure. It provides an overview of FMFM's experience financing telecommunications and ICT projects in emerging markets. It discusses the types of telecom financings FMFM has conducted, including corporate financing, project financing, and mergers and acquisitions. It also outlines the various parties involved in telecom financings and different ways to categorize the telecom financing landscape, such as by company/project size, market attractiveness, and financing instruments.
Advanced web technology streamlines European Funding at the Welsh governmentCapgemini
Capgemini successfully delivered an online solution to improve funding application process for the Welsh European Funding Office. This means that important business and community projects can get to essential funds more quickly and easily.
PPPs as an infrastructure procurement optionPaul O'Connor
This document provides an overview of public-private partnerships (PPPs) with a focus on their use in Victoria, Australia. It discusses where PPPs originated, the key drivers for adopting them in Victoria, and the achievements since 2000. The document also examines the different procurement options for infrastructure projects and why PPPs may be chosen. Several sector case studies on PPPs for health, transport, and education infrastructure are presented.
Jabes 2008 - Le JISC, son rôle dans l'organisation et la structuration de l'I...ABES
Session plénière : le JISC, son rôle dans l'organisation et la structuration de l'IST au Royaume-Uni - Catherine Grouts dans le cadre des Journées Abes 2008
Looks at the National Entitlement Card project to establish a unified approach to Scottish public services. Presented by Chris Milne and Frances Foster at the CILIPS Centenary Conference Branch and Group Day which took place on 5 Jun 2008.
- The UK has implemented a Federated Access Management (FAM) system across higher education, further education, and schools to enable single sign-on access to online resources. JISC and Becta jointly fund and manage the FAM infrastructure.
- FAM allows institutions to outsource identity and access management to external service providers while still maintaining local control over users and resources. It reduces costs through central negotiation of licenses by JISC Collections and leveraging the collective buying power of UK educational institutions.
- Future challenges include improving the user experience, defining service provider interfaces, increasing FAM usage and identity management capabilities, supporting walk-in users, and addressing issues like inter-federation and cost allocation between
EIB financing for broadband infrastructures - Jussi HÄTÖNEN - European Invest...IDATE DigiWorld
The document discusses broadband infrastructure financing by the European Investment Bank (EIB). It notes that while telecom operators invest billions annually in Europe, they focus on profitable urban areas and are unwilling to invest in rural areas without subsidies. Several governments have created subsidy programs to spur rural broadband rollout, but they remain fragmented. The EIB has provided over €12 billion in financing for 52 broadband projects since 2007, and is increasingly supporting fiber networks. It offers various financing instruments including loans to telecom companies, public sector entities, and infrastructure funds to help bridge financing gaps for broadband deployment.
This document summarizes a presentation by Roland Janssens of Frontier Markets Fund Managers on financing ICT infrastructure. It provides an overview of FMFM's experience financing telecommunications and ICT projects in emerging markets. It discusses the types of telecom financings FMFM has conducted, including corporate financing, project financing, and mergers and acquisitions. It also outlines the various parties involved in telecom financings and different ways to categorize the telecom financing landscape, such as by company/project size, market attractiveness, and financing instruments.
Advanced web technology streamlines European Funding at the Welsh governmentCapgemini
Capgemini successfully delivered an online solution to improve funding application process for the Welsh European Funding Office. This means that important business and community projects can get to essential funds more quickly and easily.
PPPs as an infrastructure procurement optionPaul O'Connor
This document provides an overview of public-private partnerships (PPPs) with a focus on their use in Victoria, Australia. It discusses where PPPs originated, the key drivers for adopting them in Victoria, and the achievements since 2000. The document also examines the different procurement options for infrastructure projects and why PPPs may be chosen. Several sector case studies on PPPs for health, transport, and education infrastructure are presented.
Jabes 2008 - Le JISC, son rôle dans l'organisation et la structuration de l'I...ABES
Session plénière : le JISC, son rôle dans l'organisation et la structuration de l'IST au Royaume-Uni - Catherine Grouts dans le cadre des Journées Abes 2008
Looks at the National Entitlement Card project to establish a unified approach to Scottish public services. Presented by Chris Milne and Frances Foster at the CILIPS Centenary Conference Branch and Group Day which took place on 5 Jun 2008.
'Adapting to Disruptive Times: Emerging Models for HE Provision' conference, ...Jisc
The document discusses strategic approaches for higher education institutions during turbulent times of change. It highlights two key areas: the cloud and online learning. The cloud can provide flexibility, reduce costs, and encourage collaboration. JISC is creating trusted cloud services and procuring shared IT systems. Online learning is growing and bringing more competition, so universities must adapt. JISC is helping institutions adopt cloud, open educational resources, and improve the student experience through online tools and data sharing. Strategic planning is needed to make the most of technological opportunities during this period of transition.
GVOP E-közigazgatási tapasztalatok - mit kerüljenek el a követők?Madarasz Csaba
The document summarizes Hungary's e-government program from 2007 and lessons learned. It describes several operational programs that provided funding for modernizing local governments and developing information systems. However, there were issues with the program's implementation including a lack of coordination between municipalities, outdated IT strategies, and insufficient training for local government staff. As a result, the goals of improved services, interoperability and regional cooperation faced challenges.
Work Group 3 of the CEN e-Invoicing project developed three documents over multiple face-to-face meetings: 1) Conformance Criteria to guide implementation of e-invoicing in Europe, 2) a Model Interoperability Agreement for electronic invoicing service providers, and 3) a position paper on Addressing & Routing that identifies areas for further work. The group included contributors from across Europe who debated topics like terminology, legal compliance, technology standards, and addressing schemes to establish guidelines for electronic invoicing interoperability.
Sca Scotland Forum 210508 Liam Earney: Licencesmichellep
The document discusses developing new licence models to facilitate wider access to online information resources. It outlines the existing model used by JISC Collections and challenges to that model, including demands for access across sectors. It proposes developing an overarching "universal access" model through superbands that allow consortia to pool funding for resources. The document also notes efforts to expand licensing to schools, museums and other sectors through pilots and engaging in cross-sectoral collaboration.
By Meoli Kashorda (PhD, MIEEE, Executive Director, KENET and Professor of Information Systems, USIU) at the Forum on Open Data and Open Science in Agriculture on 15th June 2015
Slides from a webinar hosted shortly after the Blackboard acquisition of ANGEL Learning was announced. The LMS market is in flux. Sakai presents a stable, cost effective choice with rSmart's support.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) provides various financing facilities and technical assistance throughout Europe to support projects aligned with EU policy objectives. The EIB raises funds on capital markets and lends them on favorable terms. It provides loans, guarantees, equity investments and funds for sectors like infrastructure, SMEs, innovation and climate action. Loans can finance over 50% of project costs and are provided directly for large projects, or indirectly via intermediaries for smaller projects. The EIB operates on a non-profit basis and its strong credit rating allows it to lend at low costs.
Future Networks for Learning and TeachingJamesDiffin
Janet is the UK's National Research and Education Network (NREN) provider. It operates a private network connecting over 950 organizations across higher education, further education, research, and local authorities. Janet provides high-speed connectivity and a range of services to support teaching, learning, and research. It is looking to the future and how developments like mobile learning, bring your own device (BYOD), and video conferencing can enhance the student and staff experience. Eduroam wireless roaming and the new v-scene video conferencing service were discussed as examples of how Janet supports new technologies and continued digital transformation in education.
HPC Midlands - JANET(UK) Enabling the UK's e-InfrastructureMartin Hamilton
Dr David Salmon, Research Support Unit Manager at JANET(UK), sets HPC Midlands into the context of the UK's national e-Infrastructure programme, and discusses potential models for industrial connectivity to JANET to facilitate greater co-operation and collaboration. For more information, please see http://hpc-midlands.ac.uk
The document discusses the role of the private sector in higher education. It describes various modes of public-private partnerships including private sector involvement in teaching, research, and supplying services. It also outlines potential issues with competition and collaboration between public and private institutions. IFC aims to promote partnerships that efficiently increase access to education while improving quality through financing projects and mobilizing private resources.
This document summarizes an online briefing about the JISC Grant Funding 06/11 eContent Capital Programme. It outlines the three strands of funding available - Strand A for digitization of open educational resources, Strand B for mass digitization, and Strand C for clustering digital content. Key application details are provided, such as eligibility, budgets, timelines and evaluation requirements. Best practices for bid writing like project management, risk assessment and supporting documents are also covered.
This document provides a summary of an international benchlearning exercise on national service structures in Finland. It examines the employment services systems of several other countries.
The exercise included reviewing materials and conducting study trips to countries like the UK, Switzerland, and Norway to examine topics like the role of private providers, performance management systems, and cooperation between social and employment policies.
The summaries found that countries like the UK have achieved lower costs for employment outcomes through private providers using result-based procurement, though administrative costs are high. Switzerland has a robust performance measurement model but communication is difficult. Norway successfully implemented cooperation reforms but adds challenges. Preliminary recommendations include piloting result-based procurement and performance management in Finland.
The document discusses an institutional program called the Institutional Responses to Emergent Technologies program. The one-year program aims to understand how institutions are responding to emerging technologies, including which technologies are generating interest, how responsibilities are being distributed within institutions, and challenges being faced. The program includes several pilot projects investigating engagement with emergent technologies and will synthesize findings and evaluate outcomes.
The document discusses the Centre for International ePortfolio Development (CIePD) and its work to create a shared architecture called SAMSON to build a regional ecosystem for lifelong learning in Nottingham. CIePD works with various partners on projects involving ePortfolios, standards, and integrating data sources to help with information, guidance, employability, and widening participation. SAMSON aims to capture lifelong learning processes and allow seamless interaction between learners, employers, and learning/skills providers through shared services and interoperability. The demonstration showed initial development toward building the ecosystem from existing systems and practice.
Lessons from the UK Access Management FederationJisc
The document summarizes the development of the UK Access Management Federation over the past decade. It provides background on how the federation was established to provide single sign-on access to online resources across higher education. It now includes further education and aims to include schools. The document discusses challenges faced in expanding the federation and securing adoption. It raises questions about the future direction of the federation in terms of sustainability, interoperability, user experience and the role of the national research and education network.
OBHE Presentation, Malcolm Read, JISC 3 november 2011Jisc
The document discusses strategic approaches for higher education institutions during times of change. It outlines how technology can help universities work together through initiatives like cloud computing and shared services to reduce costs. Specifically, the cloud provides flexibility, handles demand levels, and reduces IT footprint. JISC is brokering trusted cloud services and procuring shared systems. Online learning is also increasing and universities need robust infrastructure to provide undergraduate programs and open educational resources to improve student experience and market the institution. JISC will focus on priority areas like the cloud, online learning, research, and improving the student experience through digital resources and data. Technology can help address challenges around costs and sustainability if considered strategically at an institutional level.
The document summarizes a presentation on cloud computing given by Norman Wiseman and Rachel Bruce of JISC. It defines cloud computing and discusses different cloud service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS). It outlines benefits of cloud like flexibility, cost savings, and environmental benefits but also risks around costs, data protection, contractual issues. JISC activities are described to help institutions develop cloud strategies including research on cloud adoption, brokerage services to negotiate deals, and support for flexible service delivery pilots across UK universities.
This document summarizes Miles Berry's presentation on open source software in schools. It outlines the structure of the education system in the UK and how decisions on technology are made. It also discusses Becta's role in procurement and outdated frameworks that limit schools' options. Finally, it presents the advantages of open source software for schools, like cost and flexibility, as well as potential issues to address, such as support and compatibility.
'Adapting to Disruptive Times: Emerging Models for HE Provision' conference, ...Jisc
The document discusses strategic approaches for higher education institutions during turbulent times of change. It highlights two key areas: the cloud and online learning. The cloud can provide flexibility, reduce costs, and encourage collaboration. JISC is creating trusted cloud services and procuring shared IT systems. Online learning is growing and bringing more competition, so universities must adapt. JISC is helping institutions adopt cloud, open educational resources, and improve the student experience through online tools and data sharing. Strategic planning is needed to make the most of technological opportunities during this period of transition.
GVOP E-közigazgatási tapasztalatok - mit kerüljenek el a követők?Madarasz Csaba
The document summarizes Hungary's e-government program from 2007 and lessons learned. It describes several operational programs that provided funding for modernizing local governments and developing information systems. However, there were issues with the program's implementation including a lack of coordination between municipalities, outdated IT strategies, and insufficient training for local government staff. As a result, the goals of improved services, interoperability and regional cooperation faced challenges.
Work Group 3 of the CEN e-Invoicing project developed three documents over multiple face-to-face meetings: 1) Conformance Criteria to guide implementation of e-invoicing in Europe, 2) a Model Interoperability Agreement for electronic invoicing service providers, and 3) a position paper on Addressing & Routing that identifies areas for further work. The group included contributors from across Europe who debated topics like terminology, legal compliance, technology standards, and addressing schemes to establish guidelines for electronic invoicing interoperability.
Sca Scotland Forum 210508 Liam Earney: Licencesmichellep
The document discusses developing new licence models to facilitate wider access to online information resources. It outlines the existing model used by JISC Collections and challenges to that model, including demands for access across sectors. It proposes developing an overarching "universal access" model through superbands that allow consortia to pool funding for resources. The document also notes efforts to expand licensing to schools, museums and other sectors through pilots and engaging in cross-sectoral collaboration.
By Meoli Kashorda (PhD, MIEEE, Executive Director, KENET and Professor of Information Systems, USIU) at the Forum on Open Data and Open Science in Agriculture on 15th June 2015
Slides from a webinar hosted shortly after the Blackboard acquisition of ANGEL Learning was announced. The LMS market is in flux. Sakai presents a stable, cost effective choice with rSmart's support.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) provides various financing facilities and technical assistance throughout Europe to support projects aligned with EU policy objectives. The EIB raises funds on capital markets and lends them on favorable terms. It provides loans, guarantees, equity investments and funds for sectors like infrastructure, SMEs, innovation and climate action. Loans can finance over 50% of project costs and are provided directly for large projects, or indirectly via intermediaries for smaller projects. The EIB operates on a non-profit basis and its strong credit rating allows it to lend at low costs.
Future Networks for Learning and TeachingJamesDiffin
Janet is the UK's National Research and Education Network (NREN) provider. It operates a private network connecting over 950 organizations across higher education, further education, research, and local authorities. Janet provides high-speed connectivity and a range of services to support teaching, learning, and research. It is looking to the future and how developments like mobile learning, bring your own device (BYOD), and video conferencing can enhance the student and staff experience. Eduroam wireless roaming and the new v-scene video conferencing service were discussed as examples of how Janet supports new technologies and continued digital transformation in education.
HPC Midlands - JANET(UK) Enabling the UK's e-InfrastructureMartin Hamilton
Dr David Salmon, Research Support Unit Manager at JANET(UK), sets HPC Midlands into the context of the UK's national e-Infrastructure programme, and discusses potential models for industrial connectivity to JANET to facilitate greater co-operation and collaboration. For more information, please see http://hpc-midlands.ac.uk
The document discusses the role of the private sector in higher education. It describes various modes of public-private partnerships including private sector involvement in teaching, research, and supplying services. It also outlines potential issues with competition and collaboration between public and private institutions. IFC aims to promote partnerships that efficiently increase access to education while improving quality through financing projects and mobilizing private resources.
This document summarizes an online briefing about the JISC Grant Funding 06/11 eContent Capital Programme. It outlines the three strands of funding available - Strand A for digitization of open educational resources, Strand B for mass digitization, and Strand C for clustering digital content. Key application details are provided, such as eligibility, budgets, timelines and evaluation requirements. Best practices for bid writing like project management, risk assessment and supporting documents are also covered.
This document provides a summary of an international benchlearning exercise on national service structures in Finland. It examines the employment services systems of several other countries.
The exercise included reviewing materials and conducting study trips to countries like the UK, Switzerland, and Norway to examine topics like the role of private providers, performance management systems, and cooperation between social and employment policies.
The summaries found that countries like the UK have achieved lower costs for employment outcomes through private providers using result-based procurement, though administrative costs are high. Switzerland has a robust performance measurement model but communication is difficult. Norway successfully implemented cooperation reforms but adds challenges. Preliminary recommendations include piloting result-based procurement and performance management in Finland.
The document discusses an institutional program called the Institutional Responses to Emergent Technologies program. The one-year program aims to understand how institutions are responding to emerging technologies, including which technologies are generating interest, how responsibilities are being distributed within institutions, and challenges being faced. The program includes several pilot projects investigating engagement with emergent technologies and will synthesize findings and evaluate outcomes.
The document discusses the Centre for International ePortfolio Development (CIePD) and its work to create a shared architecture called SAMSON to build a regional ecosystem for lifelong learning in Nottingham. CIePD works with various partners on projects involving ePortfolios, standards, and integrating data sources to help with information, guidance, employability, and widening participation. SAMSON aims to capture lifelong learning processes and allow seamless interaction between learners, employers, and learning/skills providers through shared services and interoperability. The demonstration showed initial development toward building the ecosystem from existing systems and practice.
Lessons from the UK Access Management FederationJisc
The document summarizes the development of the UK Access Management Federation over the past decade. It provides background on how the federation was established to provide single sign-on access to online resources across higher education. It now includes further education and aims to include schools. The document discusses challenges faced in expanding the federation and securing adoption. It raises questions about the future direction of the federation in terms of sustainability, interoperability, user experience and the role of the national research and education network.
OBHE Presentation, Malcolm Read, JISC 3 november 2011Jisc
The document discusses strategic approaches for higher education institutions during times of change. It outlines how technology can help universities work together through initiatives like cloud computing and shared services to reduce costs. Specifically, the cloud provides flexibility, handles demand levels, and reduces IT footprint. JISC is brokering trusted cloud services and procuring shared systems. Online learning is also increasing and universities need robust infrastructure to provide undergraduate programs and open educational resources to improve student experience and market the institution. JISC will focus on priority areas like the cloud, online learning, research, and improving the student experience through digital resources and data. Technology can help address challenges around costs and sustainability if considered strategically at an institutional level.
The document summarizes a presentation on cloud computing given by Norman Wiseman and Rachel Bruce of JISC. It defines cloud computing and discusses different cloud service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS). It outlines benefits of cloud like flexibility, cost savings, and environmental benefits but also risks around costs, data protection, contractual issues. JISC activities are described to help institutions develop cloud strategies including research on cloud adoption, brokerage services to negotiate deals, and support for flexible service delivery pilots across UK universities.
This document summarizes Miles Berry's presentation on open source software in schools. It outlines the structure of the education system in the UK and how decisions on technology are made. It also discusses Becta's role in procurement and outdated frameworks that limit schools' options. Finally, it presents the advantages of open source software for schools, like cost and flexibility, as well as potential issues to address, such as support and compatibility.
The document summarizes a workshop agenda on open access and preservation in eGovernment. The agenda includes an introduction, general discussion, breakout groups on requirements and policies, and reports from the breakout groups. It also provides background information on the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) and its focus on safety and security. AIT has advanced the state of digital preservation through national and international projects. The presentation argues for open access of publicly funded research and data for moral, pragmatic, and economic reasons. It advocates for a national data service in Austria to ensure long-term access, preservation, and return on investment. Examples from Australia, Netherlands, and existing Austrian initiatives are provided. Next steps proposed include defining user requirements, selecting technical
The document discusses a presentation on cloud computing for research and education. It covers current usage of cloud services, barriers to adoption, and the different types of cloud services. It also discusses the financial benefits of cloud computing, using cloud services for collaboration and capacity needs, and scenarios that are well-suited for cloud deployment. Building a private research cloud is presented as a way to address trust issues. The role of national research and education networks and potential federation of national clouds in Europe is also mentioned.
1) The document summarizes the Horizon 2020 Open Data Pilot, which requires projects in certain areas to make research data openly available.
2) It outlines the benefits of open data such as faster scientific breakthroughs and economic benefits.
3) Key requirements of the pilot include depositing data in a research repository, making it accessible and reusable by third parties, and developing a Data Management Plan. The document provides guidance and tools to help researchers comply.
Scottish Funding Council evidence, Single Knowledge Exchange Office Working G...David Bembo
This document discusses knowledge exchange and technology transfer activities in UK universities. It notes the diversity in size and research capacity across UK higher education institutions. It advocates for a shared resources and regionalization approach to knowledge exchange, where best practices are shared but autonomy and local solutions are also recognized. The document also discusses IP management strategies and how different countries like France and Italy are approaching regional collaboration and resource sharing between universities.
OSFair2017 Workshop | Service provisioning for excellent sciencesOpen Science Fair
Daan Broeder presents the EUDAT community
Workshop title: Organising high-quality research data management services
Workshop abstract:
Open science needs high quality data management where researchers can create, use and share data according to well defined standards and practices. this is one of the pillars of Open Science. In the data management landscape we find quite a few organisations that aim at achieving this, however to get it right, a collaboration is called for where all can play a suitable role and present this in a consistent way to the researcher.
The proposed workshop brings together representatives of standard organisation (RDA), eInfrastructures (EUDAT) and Libraries (LIBER) that together can organise the high quality data management for research.
DAY 1 - PARALLEL SESSION 2
http://opensciencefair.eu/workshops/organising-high-quality-research-data-management-services
A presentation given by Mark Williams of the JISC Access management Outrach Team at an RSC South east event at West Kent College on 16th May 2007. It looks at the key concepts of identity management as well as the technical benefits, issues of technical readiness and the choices available to learning providers.
Enabling Re-Use and Sustainability: The role of information infrastructure fu...Platforma Otwartej Nauki
Conference Opening Science to Meet Future Challenges, Warsaw, March 11, 2014, organized by Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw.
This document provides an overview of standards and eLearning from the perspective of CETIS (Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards). It discusses CETIS' role in establishing interoperability specifications and standards to meet the needs of the higher education community. Emerging trends that CETIS is working on include open content, course information standards, widgets, and extending learning environments. The document emphasizes that standards need to be driven by community needs and engagement to support flexibility and interoperability as technologies change over time.
Is the cloud educational enterprise resource planning the answer to tradition...Alexander Decker
This document discusses educational enterprise resource planning (EERP) systems and whether cloud-based EERP (CEERP) could help address challenges universities face in implementing traditional EERP systems. It introduces EERP and its benefits for managing student, faculty, and financial data. Common challenges in implementing EERP that lead to only 30% of implementations being successful are also discussed. The emergence of cloud computing and how it could provide EERP services is then covered. The document aims to compare EERP and CEERP to determine which is more suitable for universities based on challenges identified from interviews with universities that implemented EERP.
Cultivating Sustainable Software For ResearchNeil Chue Hong
Keynote given at the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Software and Sustainability Workshop, March 26th-27th 2009, Indianapolis.
Exploration of software sustainability based on experiences from UK.
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Heidi Fraser-Krauss, Director of IT at the University of York explores some of the issues she encountered in trying to understand the true costs of the central IT provision at the university
This document discusses data center compute and overhead costs and delivering end-to-end key performance indicators (KPIs). It introduces Concurrent Thinking, which provides data center infrastructure management through continuous monitoring of IT and facilities systems. Their approach tracks power usage at the server, network, and virtual machine levels to generate business intelligence on end-to-end service delivery. Example metrics discussed include power usage per email, cost per database query, and power per HTML query.
The document discusses the Jisc Costing IT Services (CITS) project which aims to identify the costs of an IT department's activities, enable benchmarking and cost savings, and provide data to support decision making. The CITS project involves developing a financial tool based on a previous University of York IT cost exercise to record costs of central and local IT like staff, hardware, software, and energy. Recorded costs will be mapped to cost objects like services, activities, and strategic decisions around cloud, storage, and responsibility. The document also notes that cloud may not always be the most cost effective solution for high-performance computing and storage and that different solutions may be needed.
The document summarizes a study conducted at the University of Hertfordshire to account for carbon emissions and power usage in their data center. The goals of the 12-month CARBS project were to 1) create a model to provide real-time costing of IT services, 2) compare results to baseline metrics, and 3) share experiences with the community. Key outcomes included fully accounting for carbon and power costs of the Voyager book lending system and learning about improving sustainability practices. The study highlighted both achievements in implementing monitoring infrastructure and challenges around assumptions and sensor reliability.
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This document discusses the development of a new modular data center called "The Square" by AIMES to address the issues of a full existing data center, unclear future needs, and pressures of time and funding. The Square uses a modular build approach with partners to provide detailed design, construction, cooling equipment, and monitoring. It aims to improve efficiency, resilience, flexibility, and scalability while reducing costs. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of balancing mechanical cooling efficiency, component losses, embedded carbon, resilience, long-term flexibility and scalability with cost when developing digital infrastructure solutions.
NREL is a national laboratory operated by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC for the US Department of Energy. The document discusses trends in data center design, including examples from NREL of large energy savings. It covers topics like environmental conditions, cooling systems, electrical systems, and data center metrics. The presentation provides information on optimizing data center efficiency and reducing costs through best practices in design and operation.
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What does central IT really cost? An attempt to find out! - Heidi Fraser-Krau...JISC's Green ICT Programme
This document discusses an attempt by the Head of IT Services at the University of York to understand and quantify the true costs of central IT services. It outlines their methodology which involved identifying IT systems and services, attributing physical and virtual servers, determining hardware, software, staff and other costs, and allocating these costs across services. While still a work in progress, it provides some initial cost figures per service and highlights challenges around accurately attributing shared infrastructure costs. The process was iterative and took time to fully understand their detailed service landscape.
This document summarizes two projects - RECSO and CITS - that aim to help universities better understand the true costs of operating data centers and IT services. RECSO found that energy consumption in higher education is significant and increasing, but costs are often hidden from decision-makers. CITS conducted benchmarking of IT costs (Phase 1) and will now perform in-depth cost analyses to understand cost drivers like hidden energy and infrastructure expenses (Phase 2). The goal is to provide information and incentives to improve efficiency and potentially realize cost savings.
This document provides an overview of an EU code of conduct workshop on advanced research computing. It includes background information on high performance computing and datacenter challenges. Several facts are presented about data center energy usage and growth. The agenda for the workshop is also outlined, covering topics like the EU code of conduct background, monitoring and metrics, and datacenters' role in the UK economy.
- Intellect's Data Centres Programme represents the UK data centres industry and aims to drive industry representation, professionalism, and thought leadership.
- The political landscape for data centres needs to account for industry progress on efficiency but also understand data centres as critical infrastructure for the UK economy and low carbon transition.
- Intellect is working to establish a Climate Change Agreement for the sector and monitoring the Autumn Statement for potential reforms to the Carbon Reduction Commitment, as current policies risk undermining the significant investment and growth in UK data centres.
The document summarizes Imperial College London's data center project that aimed to improve efficiency and reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. Key aspects of the project included implementing cold aisle containment, upgrading lighting, improving chilled water temperature controls, enabling free cooling, and cleaning regimens. These measures were projected to collectively reduce energy consumption by over 400,000 kWh and carbon emissions by 227 tons annually. The project also involved Imperial College participating in the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centers, which provides best practice guidance and requirements for improving efficiency.
1) The EU Code of Conduct requires data centers to commit to monthly power usage effectiveness (PUE) measurements and an energy savings action plan which often involves some level of infrastructure monitoring.
2) Effective monitoring at a fine-grained level can help data centers understand where energy savings can be made and drive continuous improvement over time.
3) Both IT and facility systems should be monitored coherently to efficiently manage a data center's environment, power usage, equipment utilization, and applications.
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This document summarizes a project analyzing the EU Code of Conduct (CoC) for data centers. It discusses the design and operation of a green 1 MW data center facility from 2010-2011. It provides an analysis of the EU CoC best practices and Bull's compliance. Recommendations include using hot aisle containment and raising inlet temperatures. Future work could include CFD analysis and adding economizers. The document also discusses the phased expansion of the N8 HPC center, increasing capacity to 155 Tflops by 2012 using rear door cooling and a resilient pumping solution.
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This document describes the Reduction And Re-use of Energy in Institutional Data Centres (RARE-IDC) project at the University of Hertfordshire. The project involved refurbishing one of the university's main data centres to make it more energy efficient. Through implementing technologies like free air cooling and waste heat recycling, the project achieved a 55% reduction in the data centre's carbon footprint while increasing capacity by 69%. It also helped lower the university's energy bills and served as an exemplar project for other institutions to make their data centres more sustainable.
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The document provides an overview of the EU Code of Conduct for data centers, which aims to minimize energy consumption in data centers through commitments by stakeholders to improve efficiency. It establishes objectives around metrics and best practices to monitor progress. It outlines roles for data center operators and others who endorse the code. It also describes best practices in various areas like utilization, management, planning, IT equipment, air management, cooling, power equipment, and monitoring that data center operators can implement.
1) The EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres, a voluntary initiative to reduce energy consumption and emissions from data centres through best practices.
2) UK government efforts to adopt the Code, including commitments by the Cabinet Office and Defra to sign on as endorsers.
3) A request for UK organizations participating in the Code to share case studies on savings and experiences implementing the Code.
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1. Cloud and Shared Service Solutions
- Creating a Level Playing Field for
Business and Environmental Optimisation
Should We, Shouldn’t We or Have we already?
- Options and Key Factors in Assessing Them
Paul Hopkins
2. Overview & Synopsis
HE Associates:
A collection of former senior University officers doing things that interest
them on a commercial basis
The FEAST study was funded by JISC (2010/11)
Relevant to all HE/FE internationally
Considers the justification for institutions to be more agile
Proposes rapid adoption of Shared Services, Cloud Computing and new
technologies as routes towards agility
Google “JISC FSD FEAST” for more information on the project
I cannot do justice to a 300+ page resource in the time available
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/flexibleservicedeliv
ery/Feast%20Final%20Report%20May2011.pdf
Or http://tiny.cc/fw69b
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3. Environment
HE is just too expensive for most economies
- Especially as an increasing % of the population attend universities
In the end the customer pays! (student loans/taxation….)
Desire to transfer money from back-office (admin) to front-office
(T&L, research) services
Why compete on services that add little competitive advantage?
Institutions need to become much more agile
Not forgetting a new type of competitor (the „with-profits‟ universities)
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4. A Digression: The UK Context
UK Government believes that efficiencies in back-office will come
through sharing/pooling and potentially from outsourcing:
shared services "can make a sizeable contribution to making UK
universities more competitive in the future and allow for the utilisation of
savings in support of teaching and research";
Government reports claim that £2.7bn ($4bn) could potentially be
saved annually by the UK HE sector if the provision of certain non-
core services was transferred. This is approx 10% of the sector‟s
total expenditure.
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5. Complacency and exposure
UK HE has an excellent history of sharing in respect of IT/IS
activities and others:
purchasing consortia, staff development activities, student recruitment
with UCAS, libraries etc
The JISC information services and infrastructure examples such as the
JANET data network are world-leading!
However, the sector historically has been established to compete
rather than collaborate!
So… does sharing make sense particularly now that cost and locality
are becoming key factors in student choice of institution?
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6. Sector service Bodies
JISC
Role-based Associations UCISA, UUK, AHUA, BUFDG, AUDE, AUA
Mission Groups Russell, 94 Group, Alliance, Million+
Eduserv Sector s/w procurement, national IDM, SaaS/PaaS
EDINA provide access to on-line academic data stores
MIMAS Hosting & exploiting research knowledge
UCAS University applications
SUMS 30-member subscription HE consultancy
JANET UK-wide education and research network & services
Purchasing Consortia APUC, LUPC, NEUPC, SUPC, Crescent, etc
Energy Consortia Energy cost management for Universities
Universities Mutual Insurance
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7. Hosted Services
Bloomsbury Group 6 HEIs sharing many services – e.g. VLE
City and Guildhall Sharing services between 2 institutions
Hosted HR & Payroll systems Abertay uses Absoft's HR/Payroll cloud service
Association of Northern Ireland 6 FE colleges using hosted finance services
Colleges
Shared Electronic Security Service EMMAN Shared Information Security Service (ESISS)
Out of Hours Student Help desk NorMAN Out of hours IT user support (35+ Institutions)
Shared Library Management Systems Shared Library Management Systems
Identity Management services Athens & Open Athens, Access Federation
Blackboard.com & ULCC Hosted VLEs – Blackboard or Moodle
Live@edu, GoogleMail Hosted student (and staff) email & collaborative tools
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8. Data Centres
Data Centres SHED, SVDC, etc. feasibility studies
Shared Virtual Data Centre YHMAN - Shared Virtual Data Centre
University of London Computer Shared data centre and many - hosted applications
Centre (Moodle)
Eduserv Shared Datacentre
London School of Economics External Hosted Data centre for LSE
INTO Shared data centre 8 Joint ventures INTO and an HEI run common systems
National Grid SuperComputing across UK
Data Centre brokerages JANET Brokerage
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9. The Audience for the FEAST report
The FEAST study is deliberately high level and targeted at senior
executives – Governors, Principals, VCs, FDs, CCOs, PVCs etc and
is intended as a resource to be utilised rather than stand-alone.
Institutions are generally not ready for (or even aware of) the agility
required to support new technological and service cultures
So… the report is about so much more than cloud and shared services
agility is a key term as it expresses the degree of urgency that will be inevitable 9
10. The FEAST Project
The full report is concerned with emerging technologies and paradigms
with a particular focus on the innovations required to support flexible
service delivery e.g. shared services, enterprise architectures and
cloud computing.
The report is written as an overview of technologies with emphasis on
examples from the sector and other industries both nationally and
globally.
There are major case studies and vignettes (mini-case examples) to
give breadth and depth.
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11. FEAST - major case studies
Case studies list
University of Canberra Process outsourcing of all admin processes
An Cheim Common application systems across HEIs
King‟s College London Major outsourcing of IT components
SOA ESB Several ESB/SOA projects
RCUK Shared Services Centre – Research Councils
Vignettes approach
UK HE Vignettes 30 examples from UK HE sector
Non-UK HE Vignettes 30 examples from HE in other countries
UK Non-HE Vignettes 15 examples from other UK public sectors
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12. Shared Services
Experience in the sector as a customer or partner of shared services
within the UK is not high;
Few institutions have experience of being a service provider to
others and internal staff or governance may not readily adapt to the
necessary cultures and requirements of being a service provider
where accountabilities are significantly different.
Adopting external services from a provider similarly requires a
different culture with in-house staff needing to acquire skills in
contract negotiation and management and also skills to liaise
between the provider and end-users.
At the heart of shared services is the need for a clear and pragmatic
governance model.
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13. Shared Services - Be Pragmatic!
Institutions should be absolutely clear about what services
should be provided internally because they give a significant
competitive advantage
services not on this list should be considered on merit and potential as
candidates for sharing or outsourcing;
institutions cannot just wait to become customers;
shared services require active engagement by the partners and be
determined by the governance established for the shared service;
… hence, a pro-active approach is required.
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14. Shared Services - Be realistic!
A rich shared service environment must embrace a more commercial
approach requiring re-purposed governance models supported by
business plans demonstrating sustainability.
top-slicing is desirable as a mechanism to develop pilot services
however sustainability and governance must be centric to any proposal
The report discusses models of shared services including
top-down v bottom-up;
groupings including geography (both HE and „smart-city‟) or
peer groupings („birds of a feather‟), or
„None of the above‟ (e.g. payroll, student email..)
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15. Cloud Services
Cloud computing is much more than a technology – it is about
processes, people and institutional strategies
However, the hype at this time is considerably larger than the reality.
Institutions should assess their own competencies and maturity with
regard to the emerging cloud paradigm.
Institutions should build skills in cloud-related technologies perhaps
by instigating a private cloud and then experimenting with
augmenting their capabilities through a hybrid cloud approach.
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16. Conclusions-1
The JISC FSD program recognises the urgency of adopting agility
which will service the rapid change environment.
The FEAST project has selected many case studies with particular
relevance to the sector at this time
The pace of change is being driven by an accelerating provision of
technologies and end-user expectations. New paradigms are rapidly
gaining maturity and institutions should prepare for adoption of
many.
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17. Conclusions-2
Shared services offer savings and operational improvements across
a breadth of service types; the obstacles are generally not technical!
The autonomy of UK HE institutions constrains moves towards
centrally provided IT services. The failure of the 1990‟s MAC
initiative to deliver common systems still casts a shadow in the UK.
Application suppliers make significant profits from the current model
where systems are heavily tailored into existing environments.
However, new paradigms of enterprise architectures and SOA may
drive new delivery models – especially if private institutions are
adopting this approach.
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