This document discusses cloud computing and the ITU's experience with cloud technologies. It provides an overview of cloud computing concepts and models. It then summarizes the ITU's cloud-related activities including usage by different UN agencies. The document outlines the BR's experience with a cloud computing pilot project involving migration of software systems to public cloud infrastructure. Performance measurements and cost analyses are presented for different software workloads running on the cloud.

1. Cloud Computing and the BR
Experience from the ICTC pilot-project and
International
Telecommunication
Union
opportunities for a follow-up
The BR Cloud team
A. Manara (team leader),O. Chuzel, O.
Evrard
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Geneva, May 21st 2014

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Agenda
 Presentation
 Cloud computing: key concepts
 United Nations and the Cloud
 ITU Cloud related activities
 BR experience in the ICTC Project with
public (hybrid) Cloud
 Demo Session
 Discussion
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Cloud computing definition
National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) definition

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Cloud computing
deployment models

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Cloud computing
Patterns and providers
Enterprise Public Cloud Platforms
Common scenario patterns Forrester (June 2013)

6. UN strategic framework: more
harmonized, efficient, green &
economical ICTs (August 2013)
 Achieve Continued Innovation
 Enhance integration and
interoperability, driving
efficiency and effectiveness
 Practice Lean IT through best
practices
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United Nations and the Cloud
Cloud usage in UN agencies
 WFP: CRM (Salesforce),
Web hosting (Amazon)
 WMO: Messaging and
Collaboration (Google)
 FAO: Mapping Applications
(Google Maps, Google Earth
Engine)
“Private and public cloud SaaS, IaaS
and PaaS offerings can provide
immediate benefits to harmonization
as well as cost containment”
More info in Annex 1

7.  ITU-T SG13: Future networks
including cloud computing, mobile
and next-generation networks
 Q. 26/13: Cloud computing ecosystem,
inter-cloud and general requirements
 Q.27/13: Cloud functional architecture,
infrastructure and networking
 Q.28/13: Cloud computing resource
management and virtualization
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ITU cloud related activities
Cloud usage in ITU
• Remote meetings (Skype)
• ITU promotion (YouTube,
Flickr, Twitter, Facebook,
LinkedIn)
• Email (UNICC/Google
Postini)
• Office 365 (in testing)
Microsoft Enterprise
agreement (including online
services): signed on May 1st
More on Annex 2
 ITU-D SG1: Enabling environment
for development of telecom/ICTs
 Q.COM3/CC (WTDC-14): Access to
cloud computing: Challenges and
opportunities for developing countries

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BR initial
investigations
Dependable Distributed Computing
for the ITU Regional Radio
Conference RRC06
J. T. Moscicki, A. Manara, M. Lamanna,
P. Mendez, A. Muraru (Jun 2009)
Outlook
In order to prepare for future events which
may require even more computing
capabilities than the RRC06, paradigms
such as Cloud computing could be
investigated, where dynamically scalable
resources are provided as a service over the
Internet.

9. ICTC pilot-project
Goals • Objectives
Prepare for future
events which may
require huge computing
resources.
• Experiment with:
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ICTC Doc. 44/3
• deployment and operation of ITU software
systems in the cloud.
• the integration of local and cloud
computing resources
• the scaling of computing resources to meet
peak demand.
• Study economics of the proposed system
• Spread knowledge.
Help positioning ITU as
the leading UN agency
for ICT
Document work and related findings by publishing
article in ITU News/other journals as well as
specialized press and disseminating to the UN
agency worldwide.
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 BR proposal to ICTC, Nov. 2011
 RfP for consulting services, Apr. 2012, UN Global Marketplace
 Selected Company: SolidQ; Budget: 38 000 CHF
 Project start: Sep. 2012, Project closure: Dec. 2013

10. The BR experience
 Cloud architecture design goals
 Overview of P1812, GE06L and PFD solutions
 Performance measurements
 Data privacy and security considerations
 Cost structure of cloud solutions
 Knowledge repository
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11.  Security:
 Data protection
 Compliance with current IS security settings
 Availability:
 At least as good as the availability of the ITU infrastructure
 Performance:
 Any workload could be managed in less than a given amount of time
according to the amount of cloud resources deployed
 Usability:
 Simple click deployment/removal and possibility of complete
automation
 Automatic scaling up and down.
 No cloud computing knowledge required for operating the system.
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Cloud Architecture
design goals

12. P1812 calculations
IPOaanaa-SSpremises
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Business case
• Propagation model
• Online calculation
service (eTools)
• Usage of DEM data

13. Business case:
• Coordination examination
• Integration in TerRaSys to
meet peek CPU demand
• Notice data (private)
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GE06L PaaS
Standalone management
application for:
 Jobs submission
 Cloud service monitoring and
control
 Performance analysis
 GE06L examination results
retrieval

14. PFD
 Simple distribution model
 one network against all others
 one network against groups of
many
 Moved into cloud in phases
 Use CPUs on ITU PC
 Use VMs on Azure (IaaS & SQL
Server)
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Business case
• PFD for protection of space
services (Appendix 30)
• Public data (space notice)
• Legacy Cobol & Fortran code vs
MS Access
• Possible future usage:
calculation on demand (online
service) / regular processing
WINDOWS AZURE (PUBLIC CLOUD)
GREEN INTRANET (ITU)
Virtual Network
SQL Server on IAAS
SQL Server
(SNS/SPS/GIMS)
BLUE INTRANET (ITU)
VM
MS Access DB
(SNS/SPS/GIMS)
SQL Azure
Database
Jobs & results
Client Software
SQL Server
(SNS/SPS/GIMS)

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Performance
GE06L
Run evolution (95 workers) for the 1238 notices published
in Special Section GE06L/8/A.
~37 CHF

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Performance
PFD

17. Data privacy and security
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GE06L PaaS
Methodology
 Classification of business
data
 Description of the systems
and identifications of hot
spots
 Introduction of associated
defense tactics
Technical doc: GE06L on the
Cloud security report

18. Azure Price Calculator
 Small VM (1.6GHz CPU,
1.75GB RAM, 225GB
Storage):
CHF 0.078/VM/hour
 1 Large VM SQL Server
Enterprise: CHF
2.04/hour
 SQL database: 9.71
CHF/month (< 1 Gb)
 Storage (1000GB:24CHF/mo)
 Service Bus, Bandwidth
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PFD
 Network ID
113555003
 40 hours run
 4VM
 104 CHF
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Cost structure of
cloud solutions
GE06L
 1238 notices
GE06L/8/A
 95 workers
 5 hours run
 37 CHF
 Proc: 20 min!
P1812
 2VM/workers
 1400 CHF/year
Could add other ITU-R Rec.
propagation model with no
additional fees

19.  Hardware costs
 100 PC @ 2K CHF 200K CHF
 Network: 200 CHF/port 20K CHF
 Installation & Power: ~ 5K CHF (not
reusable)
Used 8 months & re-used in ITU:
depreciation over 3 years:
~70K CHF/year  50K CHF/8 mo.
 Staff costs
 4 man/mo @ 10K CHF  40K
 Total Costs: ~100K CHF
 Procurement: 8 months!
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Equivalent Cloud System
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RRC-06: Cost
structure analyses
100 Small VM (1.6GHz
CPU, 1.75GB RAM)
@CHF 0.088/VM/hr
30days@RRC06
Hardware Cost Only
Total Cost: ~ 6.3K CHF
Procurement: 20 min

20.  BR should continue to develop knowledge and
experiment with the Cloud
 For BR to be able to deploy production Cloud
services there is a need to define:
 Strategy
 Structure
 Budget
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What is next