Strategies for Clouds & Mobility Eoin Kenny HEAnet 11 April 2019

Celebrating 15 years: 1997 - 2012

Mobility & Clouds User location Service location Future On his/her campus on A campus off-campus User location Past on-campus private cloud community cloud/public cloud Service location

Mobility Trends

Trends Anytime, Any place, Anywhere Internet has become a necessity in life Be on social networks or lose your friends Streaming and Storage – move to cloud Smartphone triggers impulsive usage Great potential for Tablet PC Source: Ericsson Consumer Lab Study 2009-2011

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Explosion of mobile devices Devices and Usage Explosion of mobile devices Multiple devices per student Over 100% growth in Wireless devices year-on-year (TCD) 37k mobile devices connecting to WiFi in one month (UCD) 70% traffic is social networking (UCD) 2011 – More Smart Phones sold than PCs Usage Small screen - Mobile Large screen - Nomadic Streaming not download Coverage

An Irish University Campus 37,000 unique devices on the Wifi network in Feb 2012 and rising!

Device Growth Mobile Broadband Subscriptions (HSDPA) 593,208 September 2011 there were 5,473,757 Mobile phone subscriptions in Ireland 120% Post PC era has arrived! Q4 2011 iPAD sales now larger than all HP PCs.....

HEAnet’s Mobility Strategy

Mobility Strategy Be on the move and on campus Mobility Advise and promote WLAN solution on/off campus Be on the move and on campus Mobility Provide national mobile broadband access service Facilitate the use of new mobile devices Enabling access Any time Anywhere Any device

HEAnet/O2 Mobile Broadband 10GB 12 month contract Postpay data bundle 2GB shareable Prepay data bundle 700MB every second month free 30 day rolling contract 5GB Prepay upfront €99.90 for 10mths €9.99

Mobility Broadband Traffic

eduroam, Ireland and Europe

Who uses eduroam in Ireland?

eduroamers - Where do they go?

Ensure sufficient Quality of Experience for e-learning E-learning Provide support of content delivery from the cloud Provide support for e- learning anytime anywhere Next Generation learning and research Supporting Distance and Life Long Learning with data hungry content

HEAnet’s Cloud Services

Higher Education Network National Education & Research Network Learning Collaboration Research Innovation Higher Education Network Schools Network Researcher Network International 100 Mbit/s 1 Gbit/s 10 Gbit/s Global Reach Data & Applications Hosting Webhosting Filesender Repositories Data Sets Wikis VLEs Media IPTV Blogs Streaming Video Conf Content e - Infrastructure High Performance Computing Data Centres Fibre Backbone Storage

Service Model Terminology Cloud Service Model Terminology

Cloud platforms SaaS Thousands of others! PaaS IaaS End Users Application Developers IaaS Network Architects

IaaS PaaS SaaS Operating System Operating System Operating System App App App App App App App App App Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Operating System Operating System Operating System Virtualisation Virtualisation Virtualisation Three service models Off campus cloud

In house - everything Operating System Virtualisation On campus cloud App App App Operating System Virtualisation On campus cloud

Cloud platforms Thousands of others! SaaS PaaS IaaS End Users Application Developers IaaS Network Architects

Introducing EduStorage

EduStorage Service Launch date Q2 2012 500TB initial usable capacity; 250TB per datacentre; Scalable to 10PB (or 32PB with external controllers); Presented as block-level, iSCSI storage; Thin provisioning; Snapshots, replication, mirroring; Integration with Edugate; Utilisation reports, metering; HEAnet’s Data storage service

EduStorage Service Profile SLA Service available to use: 24x365 Client support calls: 9-5:30, 5d Self-service Authorisation thresholds configurable; User Data Users own their data; Data resides in Ireland; Standard HEAnet AUP (data protection legislation); Service promotion within institutions;

EduStorage pricing HEAnet absorbing setup cost Comparison: Cost recovery basis; Price: €275 per TB/year; Comparison: *subject to Amazon’s network/traffic volume charges Storage provider TB/year 300 TB, 3 years Dropbox €1,500 €1,350,000 Amazon EBS (1 TB max) €4,320* €3,888,000* aDrive.com €950 €855,000

Any time, Any place, Any device Mobility Cloud

Solution for everything.....