Cloud and Shared Services Workshop Introduction

Cloud, Shared Services and Level Playing Fields Martin Bennett and Peter James Green IT for Science Responsible Energy Costs (RECSO)

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Peter James and Martin Bennet from the JISC funded Green in Silico and Responsibility for Energy Costs (RECSO) Projects set the scene for the workshop on Cloud and Shared Services Solutions

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Page 1: Cloud and Shared Services Workshop Introduction

Cloud, Shared Services and Level Playing

FieldsMartin Bennett and Peter

JamesGreen IT for Science

Responsible Energy Costs (RECSO)

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Cloud Services• Software as a Service (SaaS)

- e.g. videoconferencing from Skype

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)- e.g. Google Apps for customised email, calendars etc.

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)- e.g. virtual servers from Amazon Web Services

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Cloud Models• Private, e.g. Government• Community, e.g. HE Specific• Private, e.g. Amazon, Google• Hybrid, e.g. JANET brokered?

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Shared Services• Resource management, e.g. server

hosting• Specialisation, e.g. procurement• Student & research centered

solutions, e.g. HPC• New services, e.g. offsite digital

printing• New outcomes, e.g. student identity

management

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Key Decision Factors

• Impacts• Quality• Reliability• Risk• Capacity• Cost

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Cost Distortions

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Amazon Web Services

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Cloud Definition • Cloud computing is a model for

enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction