Agenda

  Prelude

  Cloud First

  Highlights 2011

  Action plan 2012

  CIO wishes

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Prelude

  Cloud Computing is inevitable   Cloud Computing has penetrated the personal life

of Students and Staff   Cloud Computing may bring profits to the

institutions of Higher Education

  We must act NOW   We must act TOGETHER

  SURF will facilitate, coordinate, initiate, disseminate

  SURF Taskforce Cloud Computing

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Cloud First

  Public Cloud for commodity services   Community Cloud

 managed by “ourselves”  comply with Dutch or EU law  develop new common services  virtual private cloud

  On Premises if all else fails

  Concept Vision published (position paper july 2011)   discussed by stakeholders in HE   adopted by University Executives (November 8)   adopted by SURF executive board (November 26)

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Highlights 2011

  Cloud vendor meetings (what can you do for us?)

  IAAS pilot SURFnet (GreenQloud)

  SURFconext collaboration infrastructure

  Agreement SURF-Google (apps)

(EU law, SURFconext coupling)

  knowledge dissemination (SURFnet/Kennisnet)

  website www.surf.nl/cloud

  Sourcing Toolbox (collaboration with CIO council)

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Action plan 2012

  further develop Cloud First strategy (reference architecture, business cases)

  help institutions to develop a sourcing policy (cloud computing = sourcing option)

  vendor management and webshop (SURFspot)   Further Develop SURFconext

(making more services “SURfconext aware”)   support institutions implementing Cloud Services   develop joint privacy poicy

“From Innovation to Implementation”

  adopted by CIOs December 8, 2011

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CIO wishlist

  pilots and sandbox environments

  keep the Boards committed

  manage expectations

  allow variation in adoption speed (each institution

their own road into the cloud)

  Sense of Urgency: keep up with students and staff

(cloud users in their personal life)

  SURF as a provider of cloud services (IaaS)

  SURF as “flying cloud doctors”

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