The Story Behind UW's Cloud Computing Initiative Terry Gray, PhD Associate VP, Technology Strategy UW Technology Cloud Seeding
UW meets the Cloud
Cloud UW 64K UW users 60% of students ALREADY forward their UW
Infrastructure As A Service
A Tale of Two Clouds
"We're taking everything we do at the server level and saying we will have a service that mirrors that exactly." -Bill Gates, quoted in NY Times 3 June 2008 Microsoft View
“Google aspires to be a large portion of the cloud, or a cloud that you would interact with every day.” -Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, BusinessWeek 13 Dec 2007 Google View
History 1949: ADP founded (Cloud's spiritual ancestor?) 1994: Hotmail 1999: Salesforce.com 2003: MySpace; Nick Carr: “Does IT Matter?” 2004: Gmail, Facebook 2005: YouTube 2006: Amazon S3/EC2, Google Apps 2007: MS announces ExchangeLabs; early talks 2008: UW alumni project; GA contract talks 2009: UW pilot projects & launch of MS-OL, GAEE
Cloud Ancestry Mainframe Service Bureau Free TVPersonalization Web Technology
Cloud Currency cloud concepts are old -except the biz model
Natural Evolution Who ya gonna call (for commodity IT)? Individual Departmental Central Cloud Goodbye “IT priesthood”... Hello “Consumer Computing” In the beginning...
Cloud Partnership Motivations Support campus technology needs/desires Enhance the cloud services Improve regulatory compliance Eventual reallocation of IT resources IT Goal: any time/place/device access & collaboration
Leadership Consensus UW should encourage use of cloud services, consistent with compliance obligations UW risk is reduced by executing partner contracts and encouraging their use UW should proceed with a dual-vendor strategy for collaborative applications Include faculty, staff and students, in order to maximize collaboration
Launching Today for students & alumni New options for & collaboration Partnership with Microsoft & Google FERPA privacy protections Use UW address Lots of storage; Ad-free; UW branding UW NetID integration Sign up now! – uw.edu/googleapps – uw.edu/windowslive cf. CSE Dept
Impact on UA Services Student Tech Fee Committee decision – UA services for students have been de-funded – Thus, they will migrate to cloud soon... – No new student Deskmail accounts as of Jan 2010 – Phase out of student servers later in 2010 – Students may continue to use consumer accts or UW – provided MS and Google accts Web publishing, etc – Roadmap will be developed during Fall quarter
Platform Migration Starting Sept 2009 Premium Cloud Free Cloud Dedicated Exchange PASTFUTURE Dedicated Exchange Personal Cloud Services Personal Cloud Services MyUW.net (Alumni ) Deskmail (Uniform Access) 50K 5K 40K 5K 40K 10K 40K ++ New Alums
Premise: one size does not fit all We want both partners to succeed!!
How to Decide? collaboration! Functionality & timing Personal preference Departmental preference Affinity group preference Can have accounts on both services
Concerns Service maturity Privacy Interoperability
Service Maturity
Total Information Awareness
Interoperability example: the calendaring crisis Outlook/ Exchange User IT Staff Google Calendar User
Nevertheless: Cloud computing use will continue to soar.
Green Clouds and massive data centers Location, location, location Economy of scale Advanced Data Center designs Aggressive use of virtualization
Questions?