GÉANT Cloud Activity Towards Pan-European Cloud Services

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1 GÉANT Cloud Activity Towards Pan-European Cloud Services Lars Fuglevaag Head of Communications, UNINETT HEAnet 12 November 2015

2 GÉANT a collaborative effort Global reach on a par with the best 40 NRENs institutions 35 million users Network Collaboration Project

3 «Clouds» is about a way of delivering services and resources and the services and resources themselves 3

4 Our mission Meeting user needs through a community effort, adding value in the process 4

5 Foundation: four main areas STRATEGY STANDARDS Activity initiated spring 2013 Hot topic 15 NRENs actively engaged 40 + people involved REQUIREMENTS CATALOGUE 5

6 Meeting user needs: Cloud collaboration areas COLLABORATION SUITES REALTIME COMMUNICATION NREN Questionnaire: Interest in specific types of services Willingness to participate Varying maturity Varying scopes/mandates IaaS highest priority FILE STORAGE AND SYNC INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE 6

7 Meeting user needs: Providing the right choices Faster and easier access to a range of useful cloud services by creating the right legal, procurement and technical environments. Creating a strong community voice, based on the aggregation of demand across GÉANT members, to get the optimum technical and commercial solutions from vendors Adapted to common community requirements and standards such as federation Users are choosers 7

8 Community effort: By the community for the community Trusted broker and advisor, acting on behalf of the community in a collaborative effort, leveraging the benefits of the GÉANT network, federation and combined expertise. Sharing resources, experiences and knowledge, establishing common standards and requirements Aggregating demand, enabling efficiency and economy of scale Buying power of 10,000 institutions and 35 million end users 8

9 Added value: The benefits of clouds, adapted to the community Maximizing benefits, minimizing risks Federation and integration; adapting the services to the R&E community portfolio Data control; adhering to legal and security demands, getting in and out in a timely manner 9

10 Adding value for HEAnet Clients TERMS & CONDITIONS BROKERAGE PROCUREMENT FEDERATED IDENTITY MANAGEMENT & SINGLE SIGN-ON Edugate / edugain NETWORK PEERINGS 10

11 Legal basis for procurement activity EC Procurement Directive (2014/24/EU) - To be implemented by Member States no later than 18 th April 2016 Member State Procurement Legislation - New Directive sets out key provisions key to the success of the planned GEANT IaaS Frameworks: Framework Agreement use Cross-border procurements Centralised Purchasing Bodies 11

12 Tender issued Final Bids Contracts awarded Draft ITSFB Dialogue meeting ITSFB Final Bids Contracts awarded Timeline Competitive Dialogue (original plan) Open Procedure (new plan) Market engagement Oct 15 Nov 15 Dec 15 Jan 16 Feb 16 Mar 16 Apr 16 May 16 Jun 16

13 How can you engage? HEAnet Brokerage Team are ready to help Ronan Byrne Robert Hackett Garvan McFeeley Feedback on your requirements which IAAS vendors, demand estimates, barriers to adaption 13

14 Towards Pan-European Cloud Services for Research and Education Joint NREN efforts A rich set of suitable services - put services on the shelves Bring these services to the community - get services 'off the shelves', in the hands of R&E users Direct practical benefits to HEAnet clients using IAAS Public Cloud benefit from pan- European aggregation 14

15 Cloud services to your users Summer

16 services.geant.net/clouds Thank you Questions? GEANT Limited on behalf of the GN4 Phase 1 project (GN4-1). The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No (GN4-1). 16