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Hybrid Clouds & Mini PodsThe Business Case
Janet Cloud Conference9 February 2012
Dr Phil Richards
Director of IT, Loughborough University
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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 Janet brokerage help break through them?
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The local problems we were trying to solve
Distributed Data-centres Under Desks (DDUDs)
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Options
i2012 network i2012 data centre i2012 voice TotalsGold: full core upgrade, resilient EMMAN connection to cloud services, full edge replacement, Wi-Fi everywhere for student experience
Gold: green, virtualised ‘pod-based’ data centre with additional management tools
Gold: VoIP core, full migration to VoIP
Gold:
Silver: Some risk of M25 effect, single point of failure in EMMAN connection for cloud services, close to full edge replacement, Wi-Fi everywhere
Silver: green, virtualised ‘pod-based’ data centre with minimal management tools
Silver: as gold, but West Park remains on legacy analogue phone system
Silver:
Bronze: Minimal core and edge replacements, M25 effect, no Wi-Fi everywhere
[Bronze: just a single pod, with no resilience]
[Bronze: use ‘soft phone’ on PC instead of handset]
[Bronze: ]
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Capital spend benchmarking
Universities V, W, X, Y and Z undertaking similar exercise
University Network Data Centre PhonesLboro goldUniversity PUniversity QUniversity RUniversity SUniversity TUniversity U
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Business Case(joint with Finance)
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Holywell Park mini-podavoiding expensive new build
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Resilient local cloud architecturefor high availability
Mini pod 1 Mini pod 2
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De-risking the cloud and avoiding major build:Loughborough’s Hybrid Cloud
+
2 x ‘mini-pods’Logicalis MPC Remote cloud
via
Avoid refurbSave £Ms
OJEU competitive dialogue for buy-in
Co-operative Cloud
‘Fairly green’ local cloud
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The wider problem our sectoris 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?
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HP internal consolidation project
Create ‘private cloud’
Data centres: 85 6 (3 x pairs)
Applications 6000 3000
Investment: $100Ms to create own Janet
Saving: $1Bn per annum revenue
(Source: eweek.com)
Lesson: ‘industrial scale’ key to savings
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What is ‘industrial scale’?
“… 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
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Industrial-scale US data centres (sample)
Owner Location Square feet
Microsoft Chicago, Illinois 700,000
Apple Maiden, North Carolina 500,000
Google Lenoir, North Carolina 477,000
Facebook Prineville, Oregon 307,000
IBM Boulder, Colerado 300,000
HP Colerado 250,000
Amazon Ashburn, Virginia 180,000
Source: Greenpeace report ‘How dirty is your data?’, April 2011
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Industrial-scale European data centres
Owner Location Square feet
Amazon Dublin, Ireland 240,000
Google Hamina, Finland N/K
HP Wynyard, UK 305,000
IBM Dublin, Ireland N/K
Microsoft Dublin, Ireland 303,000
Source: Greenpeace report ‘How dirty is your data?’, April 2011
Others
Eduserv Swindon, UK 37,000
Logicalis UK Slough, UK 10,000
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Are cloud service providers passing on economies of scale to customers?
Remote private and public cloud prices 2x to 3x more expensive than local hosting in our mini-pods
Is it because of secure multi-tenant issues?
Or because we don’t have a high-speed distribution network?
Or are we being over-charged?
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Secure Multi-Tenancy Built on FlexPod
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Layer on or enable software NetApp MultiStore and FlexShare Security hardening Cisco Nexus® 1000V Series Cisco® SAFE architecture
Enable capabilities Multi-tenancy and secure separation Service availability and DR Service management Service assurance Workload isolation and mobility
Enhanced Secure Muli-Tenancy (SMT)
Cisco Validated Designreleased October 2010
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Where are suppliers angling?
I want Supplier offers Comment
Utility IaaS from industrial data centre with standards and hybrid cloud ‘exit strategy’
Proprietary SaaS/PaaS
Difficult exit strategy, expensive initial system integration/consultancy, pricing based on local hosting+, suppliers don’t need to work hard to retain my business – strong lock-in
Single PSN Multiple PSNs At least one expensive solution per public sector vertical
PSN counter example – Wales PSBA, grew out of Janetwww.psba.org.uk – could more be made of this model in England?
Is it part of our role as public sector IT leaders to allow ourselves to spend much more than we need in this way?
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JANET – our ‘national grid’ for hybrid cloud
Remote industrialdata centre 2
Remote industrialdata centre 1
University or College local clouds
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Hybrid cloud-bursting via Janet:a national first (July 2011)
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Janet Brokerage
What I would like to see: Fast Janet connectivity
Like-for-like price transparency
Real competition
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Summary
We want to run virtual servers and storage cheaper in the cloud than local
Evidence shows this is achievable
Large service vendors prefer to focus on (currently) more profitable areas…
Has UK HE and the public sector got the nouse to resolve? Should UK HE lead on this, on the back of Janet, for national
public sector benefit?
HE ability to take risks
HE retention of IT domain expertise
Janet network and Janet Brokerage right at the centre of this