Because we can. No seriously, because we want to! Innovation is our passion and since we dwell in a sea of data and information we cannot dwindle on the side and feel dwarfed. We like action, we want to surf the data waves! But before you can surf, you need to know how high are the waves, what is the wind speed, water temperature, are there sharks? We can take this metaphor a long way of course but data is all around us. Be careful, data is not information. You need to surf it before it becomes information. When your genes are coded it is data. But for your insurance company it can be interesting information. You get the picture.
In 2018 higher education institutions offer adequate services and have the right expertise to enable personalised and flexible education that corresponds to the learning needs of the individual student in the best possible way.
From Cubes to Spheres — The transition of higher education towards the cloud.Harold Teunissen
We would like to present the experience of setting up a cloud offering for the R&E community in the Netherlands. Within SURF we have developed a hybrid cloud solution; combining in-house developed services and services commercially available. The services range from personal storage services to full data center replacements and Infrastructure as a Service.
In close collaboration with 6 institutes (i.e. the six sides of a Cube), we have developed a hybrid cloud proposition that allows for optimal flexibility of (virtual) data center capacity under the highest level of trust. This SURFcloud service consist of SURF owned data center facilities and a selection of commercial cloud providers: Microsoft Azure, Amazon, etc.. Using the Cloud Manager Broker the institution is to select a service based on predetermined criteria and functionality: cost, data center location, level of data trust, backup and disaster recover. SURF is adapting its organization and processes to accommodate the transition of the institutions towards the cloud. The resulting cloud sphere and ecosystem is the ultimate stepping stone for the institutes towards the cloud.
The last several years have seen a dramatic surge in the effective use of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) as a weapon of cyber attack. These attacks have grown from humble beginnings as an occasional nuisance to one of the biggest threats to network stability and security. No longer only the domain of elite attackers, today’s DDoS attacks can be easily launched by those with limited technical skills, and the results can seriously impair the operations of the victim.
The Cyber Infrastructure (CI) vision has been around for a couple of years. The development of such infrastructure requires a radical design philosophy and a foundation to build upon. It needs the development of an architecture that defines the components, their organizations and their interactions. Since the CI has an international scope and connections, this specification will as much as possible be done in international cooperation and leads to international standards and agreements.
The main challenge of a CI is to provide an unified and standardized way for the composition of trustworthy, multi-domain and on-demand services for an international research group (or virtual organization). These services can be network resources, storage and HPC, but also collaboration tools for writing papers and exchanging research data. The CI demands a form of service orchestration where virtualization and management of services and resources in a distributed, heterogeneous environment is essential.
In 2018 higher education institutions offer adequate services and have the right expertise to enable personalised and flexible education that corresponds to the learning needs of the individual student in the best possible way.
From Cubes to Spheres — The transition of higher education towards the cloud.Harold Teunissen
We would like to present the experience of setting up a cloud offering for the R&E community in the Netherlands. Within SURF we have developed a hybrid cloud solution; combining in-house developed services and services commercially available. The services range from personal storage services to full data center replacements and Infrastructure as a Service.
In close collaboration with 6 institutes (i.e. the six sides of a Cube), we have developed a hybrid cloud proposition that allows for optimal flexibility of (virtual) data center capacity under the highest level of trust. This SURFcloud service consist of SURF owned data center facilities and a selection of commercial cloud providers: Microsoft Azure, Amazon, etc.. Using the Cloud Manager Broker the institution is to select a service based on predetermined criteria and functionality: cost, data center location, level of data trust, backup and disaster recover. SURF is adapting its organization and processes to accommodate the transition of the institutions towards the cloud. The resulting cloud sphere and ecosystem is the ultimate stepping stone for the institutes towards the cloud.
The last several years have seen a dramatic surge in the effective use of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) as a weapon of cyber attack. These attacks have grown from humble beginnings as an occasional nuisance to one of the biggest threats to network stability and security. No longer only the domain of elite attackers, today’s DDoS attacks can be easily launched by those with limited technical skills, and the results can seriously impair the operations of the victim.
The Cyber Infrastructure (CI) vision has been around for a couple of years. The development of such infrastructure requires a radical design philosophy and a foundation to build upon. It needs the development of an architecture that defines the components, their organizations and their interactions. Since the CI has an international scope and connections, this specification will as much as possible be done in international cooperation and leads to international standards and agreements.
The main challenge of a CI is to provide an unified and standardized way for the composition of trustworthy, multi-domain and on-demand services for an international research group (or virtual organization). These services can be network resources, storage and HPC, but also collaboration tools for writing papers and exchanging research data. The CI demands a form of service orchestration where virtualization and management of services and resources in a distributed, heterogeneous environment is essential.
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