The term cloud computing is used extensively as a flexible and cost effective IT solution for many organisations. What does this mean in real terms? This session will demonstrate the growing importance of cloud as a delivery model for research, teaching, learning and organisational efficiency. It aims to show the positive impact of using cloud services - making supercomputing widely available, accelerating, and democratising research, offering new platforms for productivity and flexible storage and resilience – and Jisc’s work to support its usage, through shared data centre facilities, national agreements, and cost effective services. You’ll also get chance to see what new and enhanced services are in the pipeline.

1. What is the impact of cloud computing?
Dan Perry, Jisc

2. “Wouldn’t it be great to look
at the impact of cloud?”
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3. “That’s a great idea, will you lead the session?”
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4. “Sure…”
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5. “Why did I agree to do this?”
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6. “Where do I start?!”
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7. Mindmap v1
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8. Mindmap v2
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9. Mindmap v3
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10. Revised agenda
» Introduction
» Technology?
» Maturity
» Impacts

11. But before I go any further…
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12. Time to pick a side
1. The benefits of adopting cloud services outweigh the risks
2. The risks of adopting cloud services outweigh the benefits
CC BY 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/ajYLap Prescott, MI skies 7.10.2010 HDR, by George Thomas
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13. The inescapability of cloud
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14. Growth predictions
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15. Benefits
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16. Evolution
Size of device... …Amount of data
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17. Is this just about technology?
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18. What ‘clouds’ do you use (1) at home and (2) at work?
…what do you find the most useful?
…how did you find them?

19. Applife
»Search engine - Google?
»iPhone / fitbit?
»App stores?
»Music
»Facebook?
»Friends and colleagues?
»Azure / AWS?
Home
»Provided / Mandated by IT?
»Office365?
»Dropbox / Box?
»Youtube video storage?
»Work and personal phone?
»Salesforce?
»Azure / AWS?
Work
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20. Have our relationships with organisations changed?
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21. Our expectations have changed
We expect:
» To access services anywhere, any time, on any device
› To be able to work from home, café…
» Companies to have access to all (our) their data
» To have the applications/services we feel we need
» To engage through channels we choose to the extent
we choose
› Great ‘micro-moments’ in the customer journey
» Real-time solutions to our problems
» Companies to look after our data securely
(well hope anyway)
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Control
Service

22. Organisations are changing
» Multi platform provision, agile development, rapid
release, BYOD
› Security around applications, information and
services rather than perimeter
› Each interaction as smooth as possible
» Proactive monitoring of social media, marketing as a
dialogue…
» IT governance, compliance, privacy standards, best
practice, control of external development houses...
» Employee Experience
› Making workplace as slick as consumer experiences
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Control
Reputation and trust

23. And as for the IT function…
» Change in control - consumers have choice
› Who’s signed up to Dropbox? Did they read
the terms?
» Change in development methodologies
› Prince?Waterfall? Or Agile and DevOps?
» Change in skill sets and people
› Technical e.g. Docker?
› Non-Technical e.g. Contract management
› Specialist e.g. Data management
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24. And as for the IT function…
» Change from data to information
› Cloud data lakes, real time integration, data
sources, RESTAPIs
» Change in risk profile
› Business continuity for SaaS products?
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25. IT folks – how much of this picture do you see?
» How has your recruitment/team changed?
» Have you more, or less, clarity about your IT and Information estate?

26. Cloud constraints
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27. Cloud maturity

28. Organisational maturity
» CloudWatchers - developing cloud strategies and plans but have not yet deployed
applications into the cloud. Cloud Watchers want to evaluate available cloud options and
determine which applications to implement in the cloud
» Cloud Beginners - new to cloud computing, working on proof-of-concepts or initial cloud
projects. Cloud Beginners want to gain experience in order to determine future projects
» Cloud Explorers - have multiple projects or applications already deployed in the cloud.
Cloud Explorers are focused on improving and expanding their use of cloud resources
» Cloud Focused - businesses are heavily using cloud infrastructure and are looking to
optimize cloud operations as well as cloud costs
RightScaleState of theCloud Report 2016
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29. Where do your organisations fit on that list?
» Watchers, beginners, explorers, or cloud-focused?

30. Cloud maturity
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31. Top initiatives…
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32. Stage 1 - impacts

33. Example early stage impacts
» Access to massive compute and storage resources
› Some massively faster computation and research
› But unevenly distributed
» Access to so much content and learning
› Some new trends – producers, real interaction, access to better quality
› New sources, new opportunities, some democratisation
» Access to new platforms and social collaborations
› Geographically independent learning and research
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34. Despite all the hype we have mainly kept doing what we’ve
always done with new applications and new titles, the real
impact of cloud is only just starting to be visible.
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35. Stage 2 - impacts

36. Impact of cloud
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37. Real impact of cloud
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BPaaS
Business
Process as a
Service
MLaaS
Machines
Learning as
a Service

38. Rethinking…
1. Move service to cloud – result staff/students can access from anywhere, therefore
resilience...
2. Suffer outage on campus/on network – but it’s okay, the services are in the cloud...
3. Authorisation/identity management still on campus...
Result: the service is up, accessible and available, but no one can log in as the login
requires the your onsite active directory type service!
It only works if you’ve thought it all through…
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39. Impacts
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40. Stage 3 - impacts

41. What are the real impacts?
Your data
Your phone profiles what you want to see You only see what is profiled by the cloud
You store your documents in the cloud Your company loses its data when you
leave
Your data is sold without your knowledge You can’t get insurance (if it was really your
data)
Your data is shared for medical research
purposes
Your life is saved by early intervention due
to predictive analytics
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42. Real impact
»Internet ofThings
› Machine to machine
»Machine Learning and AI
› Precautionary healthcare
»SkyNet
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43. jisc.ac.uk
Contact
Dan Perry
Director, product and marketing
dan.perry@jisc.ac.uk