UMF Cloud Pilot: architecturing an IaaS offer for higher education
The UMF Cloud Pilot
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The UMF Cloud PilotWhat, Why, Where and When?
Matt Johnson, Head of Research, Eduserv
What?
Cloud service designed specifically for education
Designed to address the major concerns of HEIs Data remains in the UK at all times Operated for the long-term benefits of the UK academic sector Integrated with the JANET network Lower the costs associated with IT provisioning
Pilot to run for 1 year Key outcome is to establish sustainable business models
Key service components
Compute services: Vmware vSphere virtualised environment OpenStack Compute on-demand cloud environment Microsoft Hyper-V capability
Storage services: Tiered block and file-level storage Long-term data archiving capability
Web portal access
Infrastructure scale (planned)
Compute infrastructure: Blade-based X64 hardware Virtual instances from 1 GB – 32 GB memory, 1-4 vCPUs
Storage services: > 200 TB initially, scalable to multi-PB Scalable multi-tier archiving service
Network connectivity 10 Gbit/s dual-circuit connectivity onto SuperJANET
Why?
To help realise potential benefits of the Cloud
For the Community As a scalable platform for shared service development Platform that addresses performance, contract and service levels
For Institutions Offering a viable alternative to on-campus datacentre projects Helping to lower CO2 emissions and IT overheads
For Faculty On-demand access to high-capacity storage & compute services
To replace this…
…with this:
And this…
…with this:
And all for less:
£££
Where?
HE Pilot Cloud facility
Hosted at Eduserv’s Swindon Datacentre Owned and operated by Eduserv Capacity and power for >600 racks of infrastructure PUE efficiency design of <1.4 JANET backbone connectivity
Operated by Eduserv 24 x 7 systems monitoring 99.9% SLA
When?
Anticipated timelines
Summer 2011 Shared services platform Service desk and community support
Autumn 2011 Web portal with UK access management federation integration Cloud compute and storage platform
Winter 2011 Sustainable business model agreed
Thank you!
Matt JohnsonHead of Research email: [email protected] twitter: @mhj_work web: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/researchFleSSR: http://flessr.blogspot.com/
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