HEAnet Conference, 2009 Cloud Does the ‘Cloud’ have a Silver Lining? Gareth Eason

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Summary Should I care about cloud? YES! Will cloud solve all my compute and storage problems? Is it a magic silver bullet? NO! (sorry!)

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Audience Participation Q. Who considers themselves a Cloud User? a Cloud Provider?

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Results

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Can Cloud save me money? Cloud service users: with variable loads requiring scaling up and back at short notice want a service that’s already available as SaaS YES! (maybe!) Cloud service providers: generally, NO! unless you are selling spare capacity virtualisation / economies of scale might contradict this

HEAnet Conference, 2009 But what is cloud?

HEAnet Conference, 2009 What is Cloud? Concept

HEAnet Conference, 2009 What is Cloud? set of properties

HEAnet Conference, 2009 What is Cloud? Elastic scaleable, in both directions Utility pay for what you use Pervasive access from anywhere state is maintained independent of location

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Classic IT Problem

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Are all clouds the same?

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Why should I care? Are you ready for the Cloud? Conversion of CapEx to OpEx variable costs unbounded costs? Ubiquitous, reliable networking vital though often not high bandwidth what‘s your campus coverage like? Wimax? Security

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HEAnet Conference, 2009 Sign up to AWS

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Sign up to AWS

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Sign up to AWS

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Sign up to AWS

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Sign up to AWS

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Sign up to AWS

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Sign up to AWS

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Sign up to AWS

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Sign up to AWS

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Sign up to AWS

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Billing? one X.509 cert later Select one of >3,500 AMIs (Virtual machine images) Costs (OpEx): 1 small machine month ≈ $72.00 ( $864 / year ) without storage without data transfer in and out

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Providers Must suffer capital expense but might ‘overflow’ on to another cloud Must predict future trends Provision of power/cooling/housing Provision of compute/storage/network Better become a cloud user too!

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Storage

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Storage

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Storage Transfer costs! Completely unlike NREN usage / costing model AWS (Amazon S3): in : $0.10 / GB out: $0.17 / GB $0.13 / GB $0.11 / GB $0.10 / GB

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Data integrity Henry Newman

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Data replication time Henry Newman

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Risks Hidden Costs? data transfer per transaction cost Vendor Lock-in feature compatibility between vendors cost of transfer Lack of competition / pricing control? Software Licensing

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Risks Data Privacy Legislative controls? Data Protection compliance User security( twitter.com ) Data integrity off-site backup no guarantees!(T-mobile Sidekick / Danger ) Network failure

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Risks

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Saving money Users CapEx -> OpEx Utility pricing Providers Cloud centric platforms (Cisco UCS, etc.) Virtualisation Save money by becoming a cloud user too

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Quality? Gartner 2008 survey, 333 UK & Irish businesses: Low level of approval for SaaS Overall satisfaction ‘lukewarm’ High cost of service Difficult to integrate

HEAnet Conference, 2009 What have I NOT talked about? Private clouds Security (in any real sense) Legislative compliance (in any real sense) Green / Environmental impact Comparisons between workloads desktop v researcher, etc.

HEAnet Conference, 2009 Next steps Open Standards OPaaS SNIA cloud storage initiative Networking quality cost model availability Software Licensing Start virtualising

HEAnet Conference, 2009 HEAnet Cloud Strategy Over to you! do you have a cloud strategy? how can we help? HEAnet Cloud Strategy inform us

HEAnet Conference, 2009 The Cloud Case studies: Paul Doyle (DIT) Aidan McDonald (Cork IT) Ruth Lynch (UCD) The commercial / educational aspects of cloud: Michael D. King (Vice President, IBM Global Education Industry) chocolategirl64