We’re delighted to be hosting a discussion on the transformative potential of cloud computing for research and education, and the day-to-day running of our institutions. We’ll be crowdsourcing questions from delegates via the Digifest app - look out for the prompt!

1. Unlocking the potential of cloud in
research and education
Martin Hamilton, Jisc
KenjiTakeda, Microsoft

2. Unlocking the potential of cloud
1. Jisc and the cloud
2. Blockers and enablers
3. A personal perspective from KenjiTakeda, Microsoft
Structure of this session
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3. 1. Jisc and the cloud

4. 1. Jisc and the cloud
» Deliver shared digital infrastructure and services for
universities and colleges
» Broker sector-wide deals with IT vendors and
commercial publishers
» Provide expert and trusted advice and practical assistance
We do three things
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5. 1. Jisc and the cloud
Mission
Toenablepeopleinhigher education,
further education and skills in the
UK to perform at the forefront of
international practice by exploiting
fully the possibilities of modern
digital empowerment, content
and connectivity
Vision
To make the UK the most digitally
advanced education and research
nation in the world
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6. 1. Jisc and the cloud
Doing more for less
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7. 1. Jisc and the cloud
Photo CC-BY Jisc, from an original by Phil Wolff
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8. 1. Jisc and the cloud - recap
The Janet network
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[Image credit: Dan Perry]

9. 1. Jisc and the cloud - recap
The Janet network
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[Image credit: Dan Perry]

10. 1. Jisc and the cloud
Total external connectivity ~ 1Tbit/s
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BBC (Pacific Quay)
HEAnet
SWAN
(Glas)
SWAN
(Edin)
Glasgow
and
Edinburgh
IXLeeds
Leeds
One
Connect
HEAnet
Google
Akamai
VM for LGfL
Gamma
NHS N3
Synetrix
Exa Networks
InTechnology
IXManchester
Manchester
Global Transit Level3
Google
Netflix
BBC
Init7
Microsoft EU (via TN)
VM for LGfL
Limelight
BBC (HD 4K pilots)
RM for Schools
Microsoft EU (via TN)
Google
VM for LGfL
RM for Schools
Akamai
Globelynx
InTechnology
Simplecall
Updata
Logicalis UK
Pipex / GXN
INUK
Voicenet
Virgin Radio
LINX multicast
GÉANT+
Gamma
Redstone
Voicenet
Telekom MalaysiaSimplecall Amazon Limelight Datahop NHS N3
Akamai BTnet AQL Bogons
Global Transit Tata
Global Transit Level 3
GÉANT
Telehouse North and West
Telecity Harbour Exch.
LINX
100Gbit/s
10Gbit/s
1Gbit/s

11. 1. Jisc and the cloud
» The University of theWest of London moved its 14,000 students to Office365,
and observes that once a student graduates “they can maintain that Office365
account through the University for life.We can continue to supply them with
information about the University, help them find their second job, their third job
and so on.This isn’t just about collaboration while studying, it’s about creating a
life-long connection between the students and the University.”
http://bit.ly/Case_study_Uni_West_London_365
FE/HE experience: Microsoft Office365
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12. 1. Jisc and the cloud
» The University of Dundee migrated all of its 22,000 student accounts to
Microsoft’s Office365 for Education service over a week.They note that this was
achieved with zero down time, and estimate that Office365 “will save us at least
£500,000 in infrastructure and staffing over five years.”
http://bit.ly/jisc-dundee
FE/HE experience: Microsoft Office365
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13. 1. Jisc and the cloud
» We moved our own core
infrastructure to AWS
» Estimate that this saved
over £100K p.a.
» Cloud first / mobile first for
new stuff
Dogfooding
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[Image credit: Mike Jones]

14. 1. Jisc and the cloud
» Monthly invoicing - credit cards are no
longer required for payment
» Itemized billing - consolidated across
users/departments
» Billing in GBP, not dollars
» Setting of budget limits for individual
user accounts or departments
» Theretrievalofserviceusageinformation
within own areas of responsibility
» Volume-discounts through aggregation
across multiple educational institutions
Jisc’s Amazon cloud portal
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jisc.ac.uk/amazon-web-services

15. 1. Jisc and the cloud
jisc.ac.uk/shared-data-centre
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16. 1. Jisc and the cloud
» Easily understand and compare
overall costs for services
» Develop business cases for changes
to IT infrastructure
» Mechanism for dialogue between
finance and IT departments
» Highlight comparative cost of shared
and commercial third party services
Financial X-Ray
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jisc.ac.uk/financial-x-ray

17. 1. Jisc and the cloud
» Single, unifying technology that
enables you to effectively manage
and control access to a wide range of
web and non-web services and
applications
» These include cloud infrastructures,
High Performance Computing, Grid
Computing and commonly deployed
services such as email, file store,
remote access and instant messaging
Assent
(formerly Project Moonshot)
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jisc.ac.uk/assent

18. 1. Jisc and the cloud
» £4M funding from BIS to work
towards a Janet which is "open and
accessible" to industry
» Providesindustryaccessto university
e-infrastructure facilities to facilitate
further investment in science,
engineering and technology with the
active participation of business and
industry
» Modelled on Innovate UK
competition process
Janet Reach
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http://bit.ly/janetreach

19. 1. Jisc and the cloud
» £4M funding from BIS to work
towards a Janet which is "open and
accessible" to industry
» Providesindustryaccessto university
e-infrastructure facilities to facilitate
further investment in science,
engineering and technology with the
active participation of business and
industry
» Modelled on Innovate UK
competition process
Janet Reach
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http://bit.ly/jisc-hpc

20. 2. Blockers and enablers

21. 2. Blockers and enablers
Jisc’s summer 2015 cloud survey of chief information officers (CIOs) and directors of
IT found that there are still a number of barriers to widespread adoption:
» 29% of the CIOs responding to our survey told us they had no plans to use public
cloud to support research at their institutions
» 31% indicated they were reluctant to move business systems to the cloud
» 61% of respondents said financial aspects of cloud computing were a major
concern
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22. 2. Blockers and enablers
» Mixture of actual and perceived cost issues
around public cloud. For example, many public
cloud providers charge users to download their
data, so-called ‘egress charging’
» Because cloud resources are typically offered
on a pay-as-you-go basis, careful planning and
cost modelling is required to ensure that
workloads run within their allocated budgets –
hence we sometimes hear apocryphal tales of
postdocs maxing out their supervisor’s credit
card balance over a weekend
Think tank findings:
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http://bit.ly/Jisc_helpinginstitutions

23. 2. Blockers and enablers
» Jisc’s portal onto AmazonWeb Services
provides tools to assist institutions in
monitoring and planning for their use of cloud
resources. This was felt to be a useful
development that could be built on further
» A consistent cross council approach to
bidding for cloud resources for research
would be very welcome.This is something
that we will be exploring with the newly
formed Research Councils UK (RCUK) Cloud
Working Group
Think tank findings:
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http://bit.ly/Jisc_helpinginstitutions

24. 2. Blockers and enablers
» Raise awareness of cloud’s shared responsibility
model which gives responsibilities to both the
provider and the user
» IT departments can help the institution to
exploit cloud in a myriad of ways, e.g. manage
encryption keys, install and maintain software
and firewall settings for cloud server instances
» New UK data centres recently announced
by Amazon and Microsoft show that public
cloud providers are responding to data
sovereignty and jurisdiction issues
Think tank findings:
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http://bit.ly/Jisc_helpinginstitutions

25. 2. Blockers and enablers
» What will an IT department’s staff profile look
like in five to ten years? e.g. reallocation of staff
hours currently devoted to managing hardware
and packaging and distributing software
» Moving to the cloud creates huge opportunities
for the IT department to become a true
business partner and enabler for institutions’
key activities in teaching, learning and research
» Delegates also felt that there was significant
potential for additional Jisc brokerage activity
around cloud products and services
Think tank findings:
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http://bit.ly/Jisc_helpinginstitutions

26. 2. Blockers and enablers
» Three big ideas in our future of cloud report:
» Cloud as a utility
» App as a service
» Building capability
» Read the report: http://bit.ly/jisccloudfutures
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27. 2. Blockers and enablers
“Our key recommendation is that
Jisc should work with the sector
and public cloud providers to make
it easier for institutions to switch
between cloud providers and to
migrate workloads between the
public and private clouds –
leveraging public investment in the
Janet network.”
Cloud as a utility
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28. 2. Blockers and enablers
“Smartphones and tablets have
established a culture of ‘package
once, install a billion times’, but our
colleges and universities still
commonly package common
applications separately and
independently for distribution to
users.This is inefficient and it diverts
highly skilled IT staff from activities
that could genuinely add value.”
App as a service
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See blog.martinh.net/2011/11/post-pc-manifesto.html

29. 2. Blockers and enablers
“It is clear from the results of the Jisc
cloud survey http://bit.ly/jisc-
cloudsurvey that practice with
established cloud technologies is still
quite variable. We believe that there
is a need to come together to share
our experiences of what works,
building capability at institutions
and identifying areas where further
intervention would be helpful.”
Building capability
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http://bit.ly/Jisc_CERN_openstack

30. 2. Blockers and enablers
» Three big ideas in our future of cloud report:
» Cloud as a utility
» App as a service
» Building capability
» Read the report: http://bit.ly/jisccloudfutures
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31. 3. A personal perspective:
KenjiTakeda, Microsoft

32. jisc.ac.uk
Continue the conversation…
Unlocking the potential of cloud in
research and education
Martin Hamilton
Futurist, Jisc
martin.hamilton@jisc.ac.uk
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33. Dr KenjiTakeda (kenji.takeda@microsoft.com)
@MSFTResearch

34. Let Researchers be Researchers
www.azure4research.com

35. Use laptops &
desktop computers
Overwhelmed by
data
Finding analysis
ever more difficult;
sharing even
harder
www.azure4research.com
Let Researchers be Researchers

36. ∞compute

37. Hyper scale Infrastructure istheenabler
28 Regions Worldwide, 22 ONLINE…huge capacity around the world…growing every year
 100+ datacenters
 Top 3 networks in the world
 2.5x AWS, 7x Google DC Regions
 G Series – Largest VM in World, 32 cores, 448GB Ram, SSD…
Operational
Announced/Not Operational
Central US
Iowa
West US
California
East US
Virginia
US Gov
Virginia
North Central US
Illinois
US Gov
Iowa
South Central US
Texas
Brazil South
Sao Paulo State
West Europe
Netherlands
China North *
Beijing
China South *
Shanghai
Japan East
Tokyo, Saitama
Japan West
Osaka
India South
Chennai
East Asia
Hong Kong
SE Asia
Singapore
Australia South East
Victoria
Australia East
New South Wales
* Operated by 21Vianet ** Operated by Deutsche Telekom
India Central
Pune
Canada East
Quebec City
Canada Central
Toronto
India West
Mumbai
Germany North East **
Magdeburg
Germany Central **
Frankfurt
North Europe
Ireland
East US 2
Virginia
United Kingdom
RegionsUnited Kingdom
Regions

38. Platform Services
Infrastructure Services
Web Apps
Mobile
Apps
API
Management
API Apps
Logic Apps
Notification
Hubs
Content
Delivery
Network (CDN)
Media
Services
BizTalk
Services
Hybrid
Connections
Service Bus
Storage
Queues
Hybrid
Operations
Backup
StorSimple
Azure Site
Recovery
Import/Export
SQL
Database
DocumentDB
Redis
Cache
Azure
Search
Storage
Tables
Data
Warehouse
Azure AD
Health Monitoring
AD Privileged
Identity
Management
Operational
Analytics
Cloud
Services
Batch
RemoteApp
Service
Fabric
Visual Studio
App
Insights
Azure
SDK
VS Online
Domain Services
HDInsight Machine
Learning
Stream
Analytics
Data
Factory
Event
Hubs
Mobile
Engagement
Data
Lake
IoT Hub
Data
Catalog
Security &
Management
Azure Active
Directory
Multi-Factor
Authentication
Automation
Portal
Key Vault
Store/
Marketplace
VM Image Gallery
& VM Depot
Azure AD
B2C
Scheduler

39. Identity
Virtualization
Data
Platform
Development
DevOps
and mgmt
The need for Hybrid Cloud

41. HPC-as-a-Service (no really!)
Schlumberger deploys
INTERSECT high-resolution
CFD application on Azure
Real-world performance <3s
latency, full 32 gbps
bandwidth
http://aka.ms/azurecfd

42. HPC-as-a-Service (no really!) + GPUs

43. Driving Innovation
Enabling education &
research

44. Airport video

45. intelligent
cloud

47. Azure Machine Learning for IoT
ConnectTheDots.io

48. James Williams, SLAC CIO

49. Boosting graduation rates from 55% to
78%
Changed perception of students’ ability
to succeed
Teachers have a full picture of each
student’s situation based on real data
Predicting student dropout risk
“With Azure Machine Learning, we proved that we have the right tool to get us
where we want to go in terms of predicting student success. It’s a tool our educators
will be able to use to start tackling the problem of student disengagement.”
Shaun Taylor, CTO

58. Web Science & Global Collaboration

59. IPython-as-a-Service:
Reproducible Research

60. http://searchengineland.com/bing-cortana-get-academic-search-integration-whole-new-level-196691

61. Institution (20K)
Publication(> 100M) Venue (> 23K)Event (> 46K)
Field of Study (> 50K)
Author (> 40M)
Microsoft Academic Graph
Citations (billions)
http://aka.ms/academicgraph