1. 30/09/20161 EGI Sustainability Meeting SIENA Roadmap: DCI Assets, Capabilities & Sustainability Strategies Stephanie Parker, OGF.eeig, on behalf of the SIENA Initiative www.sienainitative.eu

2. The SIENA Roadmap: Next Iteration 30/09/20162 EGI Sustainability Meeting 1 st Iteration – Cloudscape III Current landscape – Vision - Recommendations Gap Analysis – Assets & Capabilities Sustainability Path-tracing Next iteration: Week 21 November 2011 Specific features, needs, gaps for each DCI Sustainability Strategies Business models What can we contribute today?

3. International Cloud Symposium, 10-14 October, Slough, UK 30/09/20163 EGI Sustainability Meeting SIENA Session on International Roadmapping Projects: Progress & Trends Speakers Luis Busquet, SIENA PO, EC Robert Bohn, NIST Michel Drescher, EGI.eu Stephen McGibbon, Microsoft Panellists EGI.eu, NIST, Microsoft Jerry Horton, US Agency for International Development David Wallom, Oxford eResearch Centre John Borras, OASIS & SIENA REB Member OASIS Report - Conclusions The Roadmapping efforts by Siena and NIST are extremely important and alignment between the two projects is essential. Involvement of the Asian community in this work is to be encouraged.

4. 10 SIENA Session Takeaways (1/2) 30/09/20164 EGI Sustainability Meeting Drivers for Standards & EC Policy I.Standards benefit the economy – broaden choice, help emergence of new markets, speed up time for innovation to reach consumers. II. Standards are of prime importance to the EC. New guidelines as part of an interoperability framework package. EU27 MSs to take active role & adopt framework by 2013. Interoperability Layers III. Barriers all the way up the interop stack (physical, semantic & legal interoperability for data protection regimes as a key action for Europe). Higher layers of interoperability are essential for cloud adoption in government. Economic Drivers IV. There are strong economic motivations for open interfaces as they can drive truly broad adoption to take advantage of the scale that cloud promises. Key questions for government decision makers V. What are the main drivers & goals? Enhanced services for civil servants? Better services for citizens? Save money & reduce burden on taxpayers? Combination of these?

5. SIENA Session Takeaways (2/2) 30/09/20165 EGI Sustainability Meeting Government early adoption VI. Early examples are mainly SaaS – key for citizen services as it hides complexity as the end point of cloud computing. VII. US Agency for International Development deals with many different time zones & levels of knowledge. Services delivered matter more than standards. Longer term goal is to have mature standards all the way up the stack. TECHNOLOGY IS A COMMODITY. IT IS THE INFORMATION THAT HAS VALUE. SERVICES AROUND STANDARDS ARE NEEDED. New opportunities & skill sets VIII. Public bodies want most effective solutions & contribute to developing them. Role for European expertise with solutions across admin & trust boundaries? IX. A new style of public procurement is needed based on deeper understanding on the strategic & operational advantages for meaningful discussions. X. More guidance to architects & engineers is needed, especially on interoperability with certification & accreditation to reduce burden on government & industry. Testing should = real interop verification. FOCUS ON SERVICES DELIVERED TO CITIZENS

6. The DCI Sustainability: Opportunities & Challenges 30/09/20166 Mapping Assets & Capabilities To Long-term Sustainability Across A 1-, 3- And 5-year Time- frame Sustainability Defined as identification of essential assets + strategy to ensure their continued availability Socio-economic evaluation of e-Infrastructures Defining the cost of computing is an arduous task: Who has the right bandwidth within the DCI? What assessment models exist? What internal/external expertise do we need to bring on board, including through SIENA? What other initiatives exist that could support these activities? Points to ponder The public sector does not fully understand what’s possible with purchasing & maintaining effective services. Who is the supplier and what is their supply chain (OASIS conclusion)? A clear, long-term vision is needed before governments will commit to a project/infrastructure that in turn is heavily dependent on a single funding source. Strategy is particularly important for assets released under an Open Source licence. EGI Sustainability Meeting

7. The DCI Sustainability: Opportunities & Challenges 30/09/20167 Mapping Assets & Capabilities To Long-term Sustainability Across A 1-, 3- And 5-year Time- frame Possible Approaches One model? Mixed model offering directly or indirectly monetised based on combination of 1 or more asset? The best potential offering is a form of consumption or fixed lease, where an infrastructure property (storage, CPU, memory) that can be turned into commodity units. The infrastructure control layer must be able to provide the necessary insulation properties, scalability and billing – what’s currently missing in this equation?  Create a separate spin-off company acting as a single intermediary for the acqisition of resources offered to other actors.  Separation of roles to reduce admin burdens but support and commercial activities for exploitation are ensured. EGI Sustainability Meeting

8. The DCI Sustainability: Opportunities & Challenges 30/09/20168 Mapping Assets & Capabilities to Long-term Sustainability Across A 1-, 3- And 5-year Time- frame Open Source Specific strategy is needed to balance limits imposed by licensing with monetisation requirements. Potential for collaboration with other possible entities on code development & maintenance to reduce on-going costs for preserving the code and ensuring its evoluation. Ecosystem of entities with DCI in the centre and set of external commercial entities co- operating on the market. Possible assets Dual licensing Product Specialists R&D Cost sharing Indirect revenue EGI Sustainability Meeting What current or potential examples do we have? Any recommendations come to mind? What current or potential examples do we have? Any recommendations come to mind?

9. The DCI Sustainability: Opportunities & Challenges 30/09/20169 Mapping Assets & Capabilities To Long-term Sustainability Across A 1-, 3- and 5-year Time- frame Role of SIENA – help chart a course and define recommendations Who are the major stakeholder groups? What differentiates them in terms of drivers and potential revenue streams? What strategies can be used to increase usage? How might their needs evolve over time? What are the legal limitations reducing possible offerings or kind of service? What measures could be put in place to overcome these limitations? What are the potential models that each DCI is pursuing as part of its sustainability strategy? What are the business model building blocks? What’s the current state of play? What are the next steps? MATCHMAKING ASSETS, NEEDS & GAPS – WHAT’S MISSING? EGI Sustainability Meeting

10. 30/09/201610 Thank you! Dedicated SIENA Wiki – new sources for the Roadmap & your contributions EGI Sustainability Meeting