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Cloud services

Andres Steijaert

Activity Leader

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Behind the cloud is the end-user push Users are choosers

Choose your own devices and services Cut the cord, go mobile

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Cloud changes the distribution chain���

Cloud + Fast delivery, rapid updates, elasticity Pay-per-use – Data outside of your own organisation, trust and control,

interoperability and data portability

Traditional supply chain

Cloud distribution model

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Empower–  NRENs & Research and Education

institutions to deliver:–  broker cloud services from commercial providers

–  produce own community cloud services

–  Institutions and users to consume: –  online services they want and need

Facilitate –  the shift from traditional software ���

distribution model to cloud delivery model

Clouds in GÉANT

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Facilitate multiple services from different providersCommercial and community providers

Overarching aims of SA7

Collaboration across organisations and borders; ���interoperability and data portability between services and systems

User and data protection

Choice

1

Safe and���Secure

3

Openness���Ease of Use

2

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Cloud connection elements���

Conditions of Use Federated Identity ���Management

Network Peering

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Support to Clouds Topics

1 2 3 4 5 Fulvio

Galeazzi GARR

Miroslav Ruda

CESNET

Branko Radojevic CARNet

Panos Louridas GRNET

Michel Wets

SURFnet

6 Louridas & Radojevic GRNET & CARNet

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Use the value and size of ���our combined community to interact with cloud providers and stakeholders

Joint vendor engagement

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•  Set of requirements which cloud providers are expected to meet–  Intellectual property rights and ownership, legal aspects, security,

continuity, confidentiality, communication, billing, technical requirements���

•  Should be part of all future agreements ���between providers and NRENs / institutions���

•  At least once a year, GÉANT will publicly publish a ���Prior Information Notice (PIN) and invite providers to respond to what extent they are able to meet the requirements

•  Results are made available in the GÉANT Cloud Catalogue

Defined essential conditions of use

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•  Provide clarity–  to cloud providers, regarding the

requirements from Research and Education community

–  to the Research and Education community, regarding capabilities of cloud providers

•  Provide choice

Enabling informed procurement���

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Connect providers to eduGAIN, ���one safe account for the cloud

Institute U

Institute V

Institute W

Institute X

Institute Y

Institute Z

Cloud Service A

Cloud Service B

Cloud Service C

Internal Service A

Internal Service B

Internal Service C

Fed���IdM

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Best, most direct connection between providers and R&E community;���latency, bandwidth, data protection

Network peering���

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Objectives Challenges / Mitigation Summary / Next Steps Achievements Q&A

Cloud catalogue

Procurement

Adoption