1. Image credit: NASA a multi-layered cloud services strategy Ronan Byrne, CTO, HEAnet ronan.byrne@heanet.ie

2. Presentation Structure 1.About HEAnet 2.Why a New HEAnet Strategy? 3.A New HEAnet Services Model 4.HEAnet Private Community Cloud Proposition 5.HEAnet Brokerage Activity

3. Who We Are HEAnet is Ireland’s National Research and Education Network Set up in 1983 as a collaborative body by the seven Universities and Dublin Institute of Technology Supported and funded by Government Became a non-profit, limited company in 1997 Connect all Universities and other publicly funded Higher Education Institutions, many research organisations, and approx. 4,000 schools

4. Why a New Strategy? New ways of Learning User choices Fiscal constraints Cloud & Mobility

6. NREN Strategic Challenges  Continued migration of campus resources to public cloud  Cloud resources are accessible without NREN connectivity (even when user is on campus!)  Ubiquity of quality mobile access exacerbates these trends  Consumerisation driving user sourcing of non-NREN and non-Campus services  Financial constraints (for HEIs & students!) and NRENs remaining cost-effective

7. PUBLIC CLOUD PRIVATE NREN COMMUNITY CLOUD CAMPUS PRIVATE CLOUD Seamless connectivity (wired, WiFi, 4G) Seamless federated access (& SSO) Seamless roaming (eduroam) Brokerage (to public cloud services) Adding value in the Value Chain(s)

8. Strategic Plan 2014-2016 Continue to be the trusted provider of networking and infrastructure services Be the preferred broker of cloud and other services to our clients Be the driver of Identity Federation across the education & research sector and into the wider public service

9. A New (Cloud) Services Model

10. Brokerage Application Services Infrastructure Platform IaaS Connectivity, Network Futures, SDN Data Centre, Storage, Compute e.g. VLEs, Exam systems, Repositories License Negotiation (Software & Content) - Procurement/Frameworks - Legal Templates – Tailored Public SaaS/IaaS - Federated Access - Peering

11. Strategy Informs Organisation Structure NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORM APPLICATION SERVICES BROKERAGE Network Engineers Platform Engineers Software Engineers Product & Negotiation Skills

12. Delivering Across the Layers Layer 2 / IP Equipment Upgrade2015 Optical Layer Upgrade2013 Cloud Compute Platform (Phase I)2014-15 Cloud Storage Platform2013 High-Availability Managed Moodle2014 Vidyo Desktop Video Conferencing2014 Services Infrastructure Network Brokerage Student Mobile Broadband Deal (with Telco)2014-16 IReL – Irish Research e-Library2014

13. PRIVATE COMMUNITY CLOUD

14. Today’s Digital Campus Campus COMMS ROOM Control Audit Physical location Data protection Data sensitivity Service Levels Latency Interoperability Divergence Data Archiving Commercial viability Migration Surveillance! PRIVATE CLOUD

15. Why the NREN? Private High-Quality Network Non-Profit Shared Ownership Trusted Managed Security (across all layers) Physical location Ease of Access & Audit Convergence & Standardisation End-to-End SLA Controlling the full value chain Community collaboration e.g.

16. A National Private Infrastructure Platform NREN INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORM Campus Application Services 3 rd Parties on behalf of Campus  Standardisation & Convergence 

17. Why Standardise?  Convergence  Economies of scale  Multi-tenanted solutions  Concentration of knowledge  Minimise vendor lock-in  Interoperability & Portability  Examples: SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) OCCI (Open Cloud Computing Interface) GN3+ SA7 “Standards & Interoperability” also supports this approach

18. HEAnet Vision for Multi-Cloud Environment HEAnet Private Community Cloud Campus Private Cloud Single federated portal to multi-cloud environment

19. BROKERAGE LAYER

20. Brokerage Application Services Infrastructure Platform

21. Image credit: NASA a multi-layered cloud services strategy Thanks for your attention