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A presentation at the JISC Curation in the Cloud workshop, March 2012.
Transcript of Eduserv Education Cloud
www.eduserv.org.uk/educationcloud
What is the Education Cloud?
• compute and storage cloud for HE and FE - IaaS• live(ish) but not yet true cloud• designed to address the some of the concerns of HEIs
– data remains in the UK at all times– operated for the long-term benefit
of the UK academic sector– directly on the JANET backbone– I used to say, “lower the costs associated
with IT provisioning”, but … ?
• a ‘community cloud’ for education• built on our Community Cloud
Infrastructure and what we’velearned from the UMF Cloud Pilot
www.eduserv.org.uk/educationcloud
What is the UMF?
• University Modernisation Fund• £12.5 million from HEFCE to encourage uptake of
shared services in HE– efficiency and value for money as key drivers
• channelled thru the JISC Shared Servicesand the Cloud programme– research and administrative computing– JANET Brokerage, DCC and Eduserv– 4 SaaS projects– RMAS, DARE and ESB– running until end of March 2012
www.eduserv.org.uk/educationcloud
Delivered by Eduserv
• not-for-profit IT services company• best known in HEIs for OpenAthens and CHEST• web hosting and development for government• 20 year sustainable track record of growth
– >3.5m registered users of Eduserv-based services– 115 staff - turnover of £16.5m in 2009/10– new datacentre in Swindon specifically for
education and the public sector – JANET POP
• charitable mission to encouragethe effective use of ICT in‘public good’ organisations
www.eduserv.org.uk/educationcloud
Current … future
• VMware vCloud (compute) – ~20 orgs on board• OpenStack currently on back-burner• rolling out File Storage
– WebDav and SFTP… RESTful API (a ls S3)
• PAYG and ‘reserved’ pricing models• monthly and annual billing by credit card and
invoice• …self-service, billing, tape backups for customer
data, second DC for DR
www.eduserv.org.uk/educationcloud
Isilon storage
• clustered NAS (with SAN-like performance)• scalable to 10PB (single addressable space)• no single points of failure• data striped across multiple nodes• MTBF 234 days (minimum 7 days)• MTDL 4851 years (minimum 1000 years)• but… need to guard against user/operator error,
catastrophic disaster
www.eduserv.org.uk/educationcloud
