The Software Defined Institution

Brett Looney

THETA 2015

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The What?

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SDN Is that SDS?

Does that even have an acronym?

What does that mean?

Software Defined Networks

Software Defined Storage

Software Defined

Data Centre

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For configuring

your network?

IS SDN?

For dynamically

changing network policy?

A software control plane?

A compute platform?

Providing an API to request

network resources?

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But: Does it matter?

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Who Cares?! Most

people in this room probably

do

Most end users

don't

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And you shouldn’t care either

Most businesses are not in

the IT business

So the IT department should

really be about delivering business

solutions… Not infrastructure

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Software is the answer

But what’s the question?

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Let’s take a step back

iPad… No-Way-Jose

…connect my shiny

new device!

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We need to fix this

But how?

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Again, software

is the answer!

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So what’s that question? B.A.U

CHANGE!

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Not so easy…

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You need to plan your software architecture

And how it will interact with the underlying infrastructure

Architecture

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Data Modelling is key

The right data

For the right people

At the right time

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This is not news

We have been

through this before

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And you will need…

Software development

resources

In house

Outsourced

Partners

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An example…

Tesla Motors

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An example…

Commonwealth Bank

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An example…

The University of Melbourne

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Where to start

Consider what is

happening in the startup

space

Launching In

4, 3, 2, 1…

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Universities Innovation Spaces

Startup weekends Hackathons

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The bad

This can’t be

done overnight!

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The software

ecosystem still isn't perfect

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The “cloud” can help

Using the cloud will make no difference if you don’t change

your IT processes

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But if you’re

re-engineering architecture and process

Then using cloud-based

infrastructure is the

answer

The “cloud” can help

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To sum up

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Consumerisation of the

institute

The Aim

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The Aim

Can your institute Apps be WOW just like Angry Birds?

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Any device Anywhere Any time

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Disrupt your

Institution

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Thank You