1. Drop the Cloud! Towards Converging Services TNC 2016 Jens-Christian Fischer jens-christian.fischer@switch.ch

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7. © 2016 SWITCH 7 By Justin1569 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5943918 NREN in a Cloud World?

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10. Network Identity Management / Federation / AAI CERT Locality of service (legal, regulatory reasons) Partners to the universities What are NRENs good at? 10

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12. © 2016 SWITCH We got asked to provide a Sync & Share Service We built SWITCHdrive Then people said we were crazy to compete against “free” services Online since April 2014 90% of higher educations institutions in Switzerland use it Users got what they asked for and they are using it “Cloud Service” 12

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25. © 2016 SWITCH Goal Build national cloud services for the academic community Co-funded by swissuniversities (Swiss Government) 9 project partners 15 supporting institutions 2 ½ year long project, started August 2015 http://www.switch.ch/stories/scaleup2/ SCALE-UP Project 25

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27. © 2016 SWITCH Involvement of community Partners today, customers tomorrow Services for specific use cases Co-Financed by government Advantages 27

28. © 2016 SWITCH Finding the right partner in the institution Mix of Research / Education / IT-Services Focus on services instead of research Challenges 28

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