Toward the Clouds, Together!

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Toward the Clouds, Together !

Collaboration effort of European NRENs in Cloud Computing

Branko Radojević, Deputy Director, CARNet/GEANT

E-Infrastructure Autumn Workshops Chișinău

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Connect | Communicate | Collaborate

Where do I come from?

NRENs .000 institutions

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GEANT last 15 years?

Network!

GEANT

-GEANT 2

-GEANT 3

– 2012

GEANT 3

plus

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GEANT3plus, SA7 - GOALS

A new activity in GN + project which handles:

Support to Clouds

ANT, want to bring cloud services to the European Research and Education community, through a model where they are able to provide their users with:

• choice

• openess, ease of use

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CLOUD QUESTIONAIRE

NRENs’ perception of clouds

Which cloud components NRENs have in place and

are planning to consume and produce

How NRENs can collaborate on clouds

through GN3plus,

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High response rate ( respondents from NRENs)

Two-thirds ( %) of the respondents indicate that cloud services have had an impact on their organisation, with

% stating that impact is “high to very-high”

NRENs find cloud services appealing because of their flexibility

• faster deployment of new services agility • easily scaled (elasticity)

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Majority of the NRENs (80%) are already “working on clouds”, with half of the respondents doing this through one or more specific ‘cloud teams’ within their organisation

Only four NRENs are dealing with clouds in a well-structured manner, with a clear underlying strategy. Most NRENs are still in a start-up phase for their cloud efforts, which indicates opportunities for joint activities

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Almost all NRENS believe they should

provide and operate their own cloud services (22 responses).

The survey indicates that NRENs are willing to share components and offer services provided by other NRENs (ranging from a third to a half, depending on the type of service).

About half of the responding NRENs want to

broker cloud services (from commercial providers). A total of 19% of the respondents are already offering one or more services.

Half of the respondents want to

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How to achieve this?

GEANT – Support to Clouds

Activities in four tasks:

STRATEGY

STANDARDISATION BROKERAGE

INTEGRATION ADOPTION

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How to achieve this?

Task

concentrates on Cloud Brokerage and

Vendor Management

Two main teams

PROCUREMENT TEAM

VENDOR MANAGEMENT TEAM

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Procurement Team

Analyze available models

Traditional Procurement

– one winner per service type?

Traditional

Procurement

– multiple winners per service type?

Less

rigid

model?

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Vendor Management Teams

One of the easiest way to reach vendors attention:

Demand Aggregation

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Cloud Services by Type (sub-teams): IaaS

SoftLayer, Cloud Sigma, T-Systems, GreenQloud, ATOS RackSpace, Amazon, ...)

On-line Office

(Google, Microsoft, IBM, ...)

Web collaboration tools

(Adobe, Cisco, Google, Blue Jeans, IBM ...)

Cloud storage

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Talk to Vendors and try to achieve best possible deals (best terms & conditions, added value, data protection,

Talk to NRENs (like GRNET) which would like to act as a vendors toward other NRENs

Show to vendors that it is easier to talk with us, instead of + separate NRENs (and every time from the

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Helping Vendors & NRENs

To help vendors and NRENs, we are working on several documents:

• Terms and Conditions Requirements (FINAL)

• Market Analysis & Predictions in EU R&E Comm. (RC)

• Technical Guidelines for Cloud Services (D)

• Integration with eduGAIN (FINAL)

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The Goal

Establish Cloud dustribution model

ANT cloud framework

establish clarity on conditions of use, define requirements

ANT cloud certification program

apply framework: engage providers, certify compatible cloud services

ANT cloud catalogue

make certified services available in an online portfolio

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Ultimate Goal

Have at least two vendors in catalogue from

each service type by the end of this year

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Key benefits of our approach

Vendors

• Talk to one entity (GEANT) – access all users

• Promote vendor as a trusted partner

• Share with vendors what our users require

• Get access to fast network toward all users

• Simplify AAI integration

NRENs (Institutions)

• Use cloud catalogue to get the information about CS

• Use already prepared terms & conditions

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