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Janet BrokerageFrom start up to delivery

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The story so far...• Universities Modernisation Fund• Overall strategy to drive use of shared services

(in the Cloud)• Researchers and data management primary focus• Creation of the Janet Brokerage• Boost to DCC• Pilot Cloud services at Eduserv• Pilot research applications commissioned


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Brokerage aims• Work with the sector and suppliers to provide

solutions based on IT as a service, facilitating the uptake of data centre, hosted and cloud services.• Create efficiencies and cost savings

• Accelerate and improve availability of services and add value by advocacy and procurement management

• Reduce risk in adopting new services• Address technical and business questions• Create a competitive market based on sound technical

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Period of learning...• Many discussions with the sector to understand:

• Focus, fears and future aspirations • Critical blockers for adoption• Readiness to adopt

• Many discussions with commercial providers to understand:• Focus, fears and future aspirations• Critical blockers for adoption• Readiness to work collaboratively


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And we found...• Many different organisational:

• perspectives• approaches• priorities• levels of readiness

• Unsurprisingly: There is no one model that fits all!


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Which means...• Devoted to working with research and education institutions to match individual organisational needs to data centre and cloud computing solutions

• Respond to requirements of individual institutions to help procure trusted shared virtual servers and data centres.

• Spent the past year building relationships with sector and suppliers, identifying which services are key www.janetbrokerage.ac.uk

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Testing the model• How will we (or JISC/HEFCE/Treasury/another) judge success?• Successful procurements (and models)• Implemented projects• Avoiding new data centre build• Uptake of new services


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Priorities• Establish brokerage as ‘one stop shop’• Develop coherent offerings, IaaS, PaaS, & SaaS• Develop Financial Sustainability Model• Pilot Moonshot• Legal / SLA Model• Support sector projects• First major brokered deal(s) executed this academic year• Establish pipeline of brokered deals into FY12/13


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Initial service menu• Colocation• Managed Virtual Servers• Disaster Recovery• Commodity Storage• Tiered Storage• Commodity Compute• HPC• VLE• Email• UMF Projects


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Where are we up to?• Launched PQQs for data centre IaaS services and

colocation• Based on known colocation and service

requirements• Working with sector institutions and their needs• Short list of major suppliers and tenders issued• First deployment Feb 2012

• Developing Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) March 2012

• New use of DPS, proving the concept and making efficiencies

• Aimed at commodity provision (storage, compute, HPC)


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Products shaped by you• Shaping new services and product offerings

• Architecture models that work tested by institutions such as Loughboro’

• Usage models for cloud data storage and HPC

• Looking for opportunities for further deployment

• Don’t forget Eduserv Pilot Vmware now available Openstack in New Yearwww.janetbrokerage.ac.uk

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