Cloud Delivery NREN style

Cloud Delivery NREN style

Cloud meets Academics

Femke MorschPaul van Dijk 2013 Internet2 Annual Meeting

• Introduction

• Use Case

• What SURF can do

• Demo

• Discussion

Our Productivity / Collaboration Toolkit

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Cloud Apps for Academics

Teachers: easy, hazzle free, instant access

Students:Self providing, consumer class apps

Researchers:Best of breed, high-end requirements, Intn’l collaborations

Universities:Facilitate collaboration, comply with legislation and standards

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Best of Breed Cloud Apps

• Collaboration (Box, Sakai, Google Apps, O365…)

• Education (Pearson, Bb, Kaltura, P2Go…)

• Research generic (Endnote, Mendeley, Repositories, Springer, Elsevier, PubMed…)

• Research high-end (Amazon, Globus, HPC, Greenqloud, Galaxy…)

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Instant Delivery = KEY !

UniversityofAmsterdam

Dept. ofBio Informatics

Roger

Johnso

n,

PhD

One sizefits all !

Use Case

Use Case of a Scientist

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“We need third party collaboration tools (e.g. Box, WebEx) and high-end solutions to scale out peak loads and to make resources easily accessible for researchers everywhere around the world”

Roger Johnson, 38 yoLead investigator at the Dutch Bioinformatics Institute Participates in an Intn’l multicentre Bio-Imaging project

The Scientist: “Wouldn’t it be Nice if…”

Webex and Box.net for collaboration? Amazon and

Rackspace for storage and compute?

Instant access?

SSO supported?

Decent pricing?All available in one

Webstore?

Roger, Lead InvestigatorBio-imaging

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The ICT Director: “But, how about…..”

Privacy & Confidentiality

Sustainability

Interoperability

Data portability

(long term) Costs

Intellectual PropertyJohn, ICT Staff

Univ of Amsterdam

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John, ICT StaffUniv of

Amsterdam

How to Meet the Needs of our Users

Roger, Lead

InvestigatorBio-imaging

I wish I had an overview of available cloud

solutions

I wish I could buy and enable a “certified” product

instantly

I don’t know how we could offer something

like that

I’d like to stay in control !

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The Value Chain? What do NRENs Add?

Provider

Consumer

Provider

University

NREN care • Network Peering• SSO• Trust• Costs• Tendering• Labeling• Community• Context• Lowering thresholds

B2C

What SURF can do…

SURF Cyber Infra

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SURFnet: Connecting People and Resources

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SURFconext Hub & Spoke Identity Federation

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We are Operating a SwitchBoard

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The Past(1)

Identity Federation SURFconext

Provider

University University University

Provider Provider

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The Past(2)

Business/Licenses/Tenders SURFmarket

Provider

University University University

Provider Provider

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The PresentThe Merger – Facilitate Universities

Connect IdentityEndpoints

Business/Legal Agreements

Provider

University University University

Provider Provider

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The FutureThe Merger – Facilitate Groups & Individuals

Connect IdentityEndpoints

Business/Legal AgreementsMeteringBilling

Provider

Universities Individuals

Provider Provider

Groups (VOs)

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Demand & Supply(1)

Provider

Universities Individuals

Provider Provider

Groups (VOs)

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“Handling”demand& supply

• The big ones are difficult to tame

• They are in control anyway

• Universities & NREN enforce

conditions (closing the ranks)

Negotiate special conditions Apply EU law Lump Sum

Demand & Supply(2)

Provider

Universities Individuals

Provider Provider

Groups (VOs)

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“Handling”demand& supply

• The small ones seeking pathways to

the R&D and EDU market

• Large heterogeneity

• Niche

Eager to “domesticate” their

solutions Need help with OE compliancy,

exposure….

We’re the matchmakers

Services Pipeline 2013

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SURF Cloud Store – The Specs

• One single entrance to get organized

• Product overview (all the interesting stuff that is out there!)

• Policy Framework (labels/icons)

• How to enable/connect (license, technical connection)

• What’s enabled? (institution admin interface)

• The perfect matchmaker…showroom for (niche) cloud solutions!

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SURF Cloud Showroom

SAML support Group support Academic Licences Trust framework Data protected (policy) Community reviews

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Certified

✔

Demo

Roadmap

• Expand number of services in the store (include high-end

services)

• Group/user licenses

• Community recommendations and Good practices

• Metering and Billing

• Whitelabel (SURFmarket/SURFconext) backoffice

• ..API... to embed shop items in University Portal

• Smart Search

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Showroom, Portal and APIs

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Listing of Apps in University Intranet / Portal

API

SURFShowroom widget

Showroom, Portal and APIs

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What SURF Can Do

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Questions&

Discussion

Femke MorschPaul van Dijk

info@surfconext.nl

www.surfnet.nlwww.surfconext.nlopenconext.org