GEANT IaaS Framework and Cloud Experience - UK Jessica Wu, Cloud Services Group Manager

Jisc’s evolving role in supporting our members….. Now 2019 Jisc Cloud Solutions: Consultancy, Professional Services & Managed Services Cloud services provider on the UK G-Cloud 11 2018 MS O365 and Google for Education amendments, AWS and some SaaS frameworks Adoption of the GEANT IaaS Framework (Referrer) Cloud Consultancy Service Jisc/Eduserv merger AWS, Azure and O365 reseller 2017 2012-2014

Jisc Cloud Solutions: Our capability Assessment & strategy Implementation Optimisation & support What are we trying to achieve? How ready are we? What’s our cloud strategy? What cloud services should we use? How do we design a robust solution? How do we make sure it is secure? How do we keep things running smoothly? How do we keep it secure? How do we minimise our spend? How do we track new features Consultancy Professional Services Managed Services AWS, Azure & Office 365 (inc. re-sell via G-Cloud & GÉANT)

Members’ activity with GÉANT IaaS framework Expression of Interest 48 Signed up to Jisc access agreement 27 Supplier selected and purchase made 8 A total spend of £632,245

Benefits of the cloud and frameworks UKAEA - a member story Why cloud – To meet increasing demand for computational resources more cost effectively To extend the local capacity flexibly without being tied into a single provider About framework – Allows us to more flexibly buy a smaller amount of resource as and when needed, vs buy a heavy chunk upfront and risk not using them all

Adopting Cloud is not simply a purchase …. First you need to resolve: Strategic direction Financial situation Your ‘customers’ needs and expectations - (staff, researchers, students) Cultural fit The use of digital technology to transform the way an organisation does its business

A typical digital transformation journey

An approach to digital transformation Understand what you are trying to achieve Understand your culture and appetite for change Understand your compelling events Understand your stakeholders Understand your application estate

What are you trying to achieve? More control / up-skilling Greater agility Cost savings New ways of working Improved research outcomes Better student experience

What are your compelling events? Data centre closure? Hardware end of life? Support end of life? These are usually poor drivers of transformation

Understand your estate Applications, applications, applications Work with your software vendors Don’t get bogged down in the details of your infrastructure too early At some stage you will need that detail But don’t let the infrastructure tail wag the application dog

Understand your stakeholders Students Postgrads Staff (lecturers & researchers) Senior management IT staff

Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast Peter Drucker

Thinking about the Technology Replacing by SaaS Refactoring / Rebuilding using native cloud features Rehosting in a lift-and-shift type operation

Or, to put it another way SaaS before PaaS before IaaS

On-premise / colocation The hybrid question… ? Public Cloud On-premise / colocation

All that other technology stuff… Connectivity Security Data protection Managing spend Up-skilling Etc.

Summary Jisc can help our members with a range of consultancy, professional services, managed services and public cloud re-sell Frameworks offer members agility, flexibility, cost effectiveness and compliance Digital transformation is at least as much about leadership and culture as it is about technology Therefore need to start with understanding why you want to change Adopting public cloud is a common consequence of digital transformation but is not a driver of change in its own right

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