An overview of Eduserv's JISC-funded UMF Cloud PIlot and the Community Cloud Infrastructure on which it is built.

1. The Eduserv Cloud Who, What, Why, Where and When? Matt Johnson, Head of Research, Eduserv

2. Who?

3. A history of Eduserv in 3 slides… (1/3) Started in 1988 as CHEST & NISS at University of Bath Licensing negotiation and gateways services (via Telnet) First UK academic web portal in 1994 Single sign-on service launched 1996

4. A History of Eduserv in 3 slides… (2/3) Became the independent charity “Eduserv” in 1999 Core mission to promote the use of ICT in education Primary hosting provider for Department of Education Worked with the Cabinet Office to implement UKonline

5. A History of Eduserv in 3 slides… (3/3) Year on year growth since 2001 >3.5m registered users of Eduserv-based services Returned more than £5m in grants to academia New datacentre specifically for education and the public sector

6. Eduserv in 2011 Stable, trusted provider of services to academia 115 staff (with around 10 further vacancies) turnover of £16.5m in 2009/10 Fully UK based, with no shareholder pressures Developing new products and services Next generation of Identity & Access Management services Implementing Cloud services for education and government

7. What?

8. University Modernisation Fund (UMF) – Cloud Pilot £12.5m government funded initiative managed by JISC Spread across research and administration services Promoting the use of shared services within academia 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

9. Eduserv’s Community Cloud Infrastructure Built to support the UMF Cloud Pilot and other initiatives Designed to support multiple cloud platforms and sectors Will be price-competitive with other Cloud providers UMF Cloud Pilot to run for 1 year Key outcome is to establish sustainable business models Eduserv investing for long-term development of the service Post-funding (April2012) Eduserv will continue to operate the service on a commercial basis

10. Compute services vCloud Director compute services: Designed for “enterprise-scale” virtualised IT services Provides vSphere integration with existing datacentres Focussed on organisations rather than individuals

11. Compute services OpenStack Nova compute services: AWS-style cloud service running on OSS software Full control over the Cloud environment Aimed at individual researchers and staff/students

12. Storage services File-based storage Associated with Compute service VMs Object-based storage Similar to Amazon S3 capability Multiple data protection levels Archive storage: Multi-tier storage (Near-line disk, tape) Designed for >30 year archiving of data

13. What Exactly?

14. Network infrastructure Edge network 10 Gbit/s connectivity onto JANET network backbone Service Gateways providing routing, firewall and IPS services Core network 2-tier switched network (core and distribution) Fully resilient with no single point of failure All ports running at 10 Gbit/s

15. Compute infrastructure Compute infrastructure: Blade-based X64 hardware Automated provisioning of physical servers Can be used to deliver both vCloud and OpenStack services Scalability Initial deployment “pod” with 600 cores, 3 TB of RAM Pod designed to scale to 3,000 cores, 30 TB of RAM Multi-pod / multi-region capability available in the future

16. Storage infrastructure Clustered NAS solution Modular approach provides flexible capacity and performance Initial deployment of ~250 TB of usable disk No single point of failure Highly scalable Capable of scaling to >10 PB within a single name-space Usable capacity (including resilience) of > 87%

17. Why?

18. 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

19. To replace this…

20. …with this:

21. And this…

22. …with this:

23. And all for less: £££

24. Where?

25. Primary Datacentre Hosted at Eduserv’s Swindon Datacentre Capacity and power for >600 racks of infrastructure Modular design PUE efficiency design of <1.4 JANET backbone connectivity

26. Service levels and resilience Operated by Eduserv 24 x 7 systems monitoring and support Minimum 99.9% SLA Secondary site to launch during 2012 Support for automated replication of data between sites Will deliver multi-site replication and failover Equivalent to Amazon AWS “Regions”

27. When?

28. Anticipated timelines Now vCloud lab environment for beta testing and early adopters Autumn 2011 vCloud Infrastructure platform launches Winter 2011 Web portal with UK access management federation integration OpenStack infrastructure platform launches Object Storage and Archive platform betas

29. For SeIUCCR attendees Priority access to the OpenStack Lab environment Early access to the proposed service Free-tier access to the OpenStack Cloud Similar to the Amazon AWS offer Details to be confirmed, and will be reviewed after 6 months Register your interest at: http://umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk/

30. Thank you! Matt Johnson Head of Research email: Matt.Johnson@eduserv.org.uk twitter: @mhj_work web: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/research UMF: http://umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk/