IT Survey Frank Dwyer Senior Director, Information Technology The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA

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1 IT Survey 2014 Frank Dwyer Senior Director, Information Technology The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA

2 Quick Overview responses Less bimodal distribution than previous survey 25% expect fast growth 51% say storage is paid by institution DR Plan? ~ 54% responses Bell curve distribution of disk space usage Growth expectations same 62% say storage is paid by institution Getting Serious about DR New Strategy Questions

3 Storage Questions

4 Total Disk Storage 8 7 Peak Has Moved PB 2010 PB2012 IT Tb 5 25 Tb Tb Tb Tb Tb Tb 1 2 Pb 2 5 Pb 5 10 Pb >10 Pb

5 Growth Rate Expectations Growth moderated in 2012 and has shifted slightly higher in % expect storage to double in 24 months Growth Rate 2010 Survey 2012 Survey 2014 Survey Less than 30% - 0% 5 14% 2 10% Between 30% and 75% 5 28% 22 63% 13 62% Will about double (100% growth) 4 22% 5 14% 5 24% Will more than double (> 100%) 9 50% 3 9% 1 5% % % %

6 Who Pays? Who Pays? Institution 10 56% 18 51% 13 62% Flat Rate 2 11% 2 6% 0 0% Base Use Free, then charges 6 33% 13 37% 8 38% Variable Rate 0 0% 1 3% 0 0% Other 0 0% 1 3% 0 0% % % % Institution Flat Rate Base Use Free, then charges Variable Rate Other PB 2010 PB 2012 IT 2014

7 Institutional Size Faculty Count AIRI Organizations are modestly sized

8 Total Centralized Archive Data Very flat distribution compared to spinning disk

9 Disaster Recovery More than ¾ of respondents indicated they had a DR plan Disaster Recovery Plan? Yes 9 50% 19 54% 16 76% No 9 50% 13 37% 5 24% Don't Know 0% 3 9% 0 0% Total % % % DR Type 2014 Survey Yes - COLO 10 45% Yes - Cloud 1 5% Yes - Local Facility 6 27% No 5 23%

10 Technology Questions

11 HPC Resources Local compute cluster (maintained by IT) 74% 14 Local compute cluster (maintained by a researcher or lab) 47% 9 Large memory (>1Tb RAM) compute servers 32% 6 Use local or remote supercomputing resources (e.g., PSC, TACC, SDSC) 26% 5 GPGPU or GPU assisted compute servers 21% 4 Cloud based (researchers roll their own) 21% 4 We have some large servers (32+ cores) but not a cluster 16% 3 SSD or RAM based storage acceleration (Violin Memory, Fusion IO, Avere) 11% 2 FPGA based or FGPA hybrid systems 5% 1 We use someone else's cluster 5% 1 Cloud based (access managed by IT) 0% 0

12 New Technologies Amazon S3 38% 6 Mobile Device Management 38% 6 Mobile Device (laptop) Encryption 38% 6 Amazon EC2 31% 5 Hadoop/NoSQL 31% 5 Desktop Virtualization (e.g., VDI, Citrix XenApp) 31% 5 Other Private Cloud (storage/infrastructure/compute) 25% 4 Cloud based backups 13% 2 VMware vcloud 6% 1 Microsoft Azure 6% 1 Other Public Cloud 6% 1 Virtual Private Cloud/Datacenter (IaaS) 6% 1 Rackspace 0% 0

13 Cloud Usage Trends Divided opinions twice as many expect to use more as plan to use the same.

14 Cloud Lots of interest, but not many deployments so far

15 IT Responsibilities Most IT departments have responsibility for all three areas Research Computing is the most common independent unit

16 Dashboards 50/50 split Will be interesting to track this metric over time.

17 Strategy and Initiative Questions

18 Top IT Priorities Top Priorities Data/Storage Management Cloud Computing (for HPC) Virtualization and Network Upgrades next most popular Disaster Recovery features prominently

19 Top IT Priorities Data & Storage growth Storage Upgrades Data Management Data Storage Storage Reporting Unstructured Data Management Storage Expansion Long Term Research Data Storage Data Management HPC Cloudbursting Cloud (Office 365) outsourcing Cloud HPC Cloud Computing Cloud-based Ticket System Deployment Hybrid Cloud Core Network Upgrade Network upgrades Wireless Network Upgrade Network Backbone Upgrades 10Gb Network Upgrades Microsoft EA Windows XP Phaseout LIMS Finance System Upgrades Virtual Desktops Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Offsite Disaster Recovery Offsite Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery Data/Storage Management Cloud Computing and Cloud HPC Networking Projects Software Services Virtualization Disaster Recovery

20 Top IT Priorities Other Initiatives Database Standards Bioinformatics BYOD/Mobile Data Storage Recharges HPC Improve Backups Improve HelpDesk Services IT Reorg Mobility New Building New-Hire/Staffing Project Management Research Computing Cluster/HPC Research Computing Strategic Planning Security Standardization Website Replacement

21 Searching for Practical Solutions Politics and inertia are limiting factors; appropriateness of the solution can get lost Cloud questions keep coming up Stakeholders expect magic Storage (in general) Cloud Database Services Project Management Overkill The Adobe Crisis

22 Challenging to Innovate Disaster Recovery and Security Network Access Control (NAC) RFID for asset tracking Moving to Cloud for bursty workloads inhibited by network costs Integrate time tracking, vacation/sick leave, and project management

23 Challenging to Innovate Staffing changes required to bring in cloud skills Research Data Life Cycle Management (engaging researchers to do it) User training to take some of the magic out of technology Institutional commitment: time, training room Institutional Social Media as a way to create/improve work culture

24 Questions