1. Hybrid clouds, hypovisors and ‘data centre lite’ mini-pods The Future of the Data Centre 2012 (20th September) Dr Phil Richards Director of IT, Loughborough University

2. Overview  The local problems we were trying to solve  How we did it  The wider problem our sector wants to solve  The barriers to this  Can we break through them?

3. The problems we were trying to solve Distributed Data-centres Under Desks (DDUDs)

4. Holywell Park ‘data centre lite’ mini-pod avoiding expensive new build

5. Resilient local cloud architecture for high availability Mini pod 1 Mini pod 2

6. De-risking the cloud and avoiding major build: Loughborough’s Hybrid Cloud

7. The wider problem our sector is trying to solve  Sector: UK Higher Education  Save £100Ms from £23Bn UK HE turnover  ~ 2% spent on servers and storage = £460M  Can we save 50% of £460M?

8. Industrial-scale savings “… construction of extremely large- scale, commodity-computer data centres at low-cost locations… uncovered the factors of 5 to 7 decrease in cost of electricity, bandwidth, operations, software and hardware at these very large economies of scale.” Armburst, Armando Fox et al., Above the Clouds, Berkeley

9. Examples of industrial-scale European data centres OwnerLocationSquare feet AmazonDublin, Ireland240,000 GoogleHamina, FinlandN/K HPWinyard, UK305,000 IBMDublin, IrelandN/K MicrosoftDublin, Ireland303,000 Source: Greenpeace report ‘How dirty is your data?’, April 2011

10. Janet – our ‘national grid’ for hybrid cloud Remote industrial data centre 2 Remote industrial data centre 1 University or College local clouds

11. “Hypovisor… “… refers to containerisation at the bare-metal level, permitting a greater set of workloads on the same infrastructure, including High-Performance Computing.” Term believed first to have been coined by Gartner Distinguished Analyst Andrew Butler in 2012.

12. Hybrid ‘hypovisor’ cloud-bursting via Janet: a world first (July 2011)?

13. Summary  Now we want to run our virtual servers and storage cheaper in the public cloud than locally  Evidence suggests this is possible  Utility provision to us from industrial-scale data centres is required  UK Higher Education may be able to lead this, on the back of the Janet network