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Lars Fuglevaag

HEAnet

Towards Pan-European Cloud Services

GÉANT Cloud Activity

12 November 2015

Head of Communications, UNINETT

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Global reach on a par with the best

• 40 NRENs

• 10 000 institutions

• 35 million users

• Network

• Collaboration

• Project

GÉANT – a collaborative effort

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«Clouds» is about

a way of delivering services and resources

and

the services and resources themselves

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Meeting user needs through a community effort, adding value in the process

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Our mission

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• Activity initiated spring 2013

• Hot topic

• 15 NRENs actively engaged

• 40 + people involved

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Foundation: four main areas

REQUIREMENTS CATALOGUE

STRATEGY STANDARDS

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NREN Questionnaire:

• Interest in specific types of services

• Willingness to participate

• Varying maturity

• Varying scopes/mandates

• IaaS highest priority

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Meeting user needs: Cloud collaboration areas

COLLABORATIONSUITES

REALTIMECOMMUNICATION

FILE STORAGEAND SYNC

INFRASTRUCTUREAS A

SERVICE

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• Faster and easier access to a range of useful cloud services by creating the right legal, procurement and technical environments.

• Creating a strong community voice, based on the aggregation of demand across GÉANT members, to get the optimum technical and commercial solutions from vendors

• Adapted to common community requirements and standards such as federation

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Meeting user needs: Providing the right choices

Users are choosers

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• Trusted broker and advisor, acting on behalf of the community in a collaborative effort, leveraging the benefits of the GÉANT network, federation and combined expertise.

• Sharing resources, experiences and knowledge, establishing common standards and requirements

• Aggregating demand, enabling efficiency and economy of scale

• Buying power of 10,000 institutions and 35 million end users

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Community effort: By the community – for the community

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• Maximizing benefits, minimizing risks

• Federation and integration; adapting the services to the R&E community portfolio

• Data control; adhering to legal and security demands, getting in and out in a timely manner

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Added value: The benefits of clouds, adapted to the community

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Adding value for HEAnet Clients

TERMS & CONDITIONSBROKERAGE

PROCUREMENT

FEDERATED IDENTITY MANAGEMENT & SINGLE SIGN-ON

Edugate / eduGain

NETWORKPEERINGS

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Legal basis for procurement activity

EC Procurement Directive (2014/24/EU) - To be implemented by Member States no later than 18th April 2016

Member State Procurement Legislation- New Directive sets out key provisions key to the success of the planned GEANT IaaS Frameworks:

• Framework Agreement use• Cross-border procurements• Centralised Purchasing Bodies

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Timeline

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Market engagement

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• HEAnet Brokerage Team are ready to help

• Ronan Byrne

• Robert Hackett

• Garvan McFeeley

• Feedback on your requirements

• which IAAS vendors,

• demand estimates,

• barriers to adaption

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How can you engage?

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Joint NREN efforts

• A rich set of suitable services - put services ‘on the shelves’

• Bring these services to the community - get services 'off the shelves', in the hands of R&E

users

• Direct practical benefits to HEAnet clients using IAAS Public Cloud –benefit from pan-European aggregation

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Towards Pan-European Cloud Services for Research and Education

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Cloud services to your users

Summer2016

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Thank you

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© GEANT Limited on behalf of the GN4 Phase 1 project (GN4-1).The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 691567 (GN4-1). 16

lars.fuglevaag@uninett.no

clouds@geant.net

services.geant.net/clouds

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