SURFconext, Cloud Integration for Higher Education and Research Paul van Dijk, Product Manager SURFnet 1
SURF CyberInfra National Research & Education Network Commercial ICT Products & Services Scientific Computing & Storage Shared Professional and Educational Services 2
SURFnet: National Research & Education Network (NREN) - Hybrid end-to-end Network - Authentication and Authorization solutions - Improve higher education and research with innovative ICT solutions - Approx. 1 million users in higher education and research 3
Why SURFconext? - Inter Institutional Collaboration - 4
Why SURFconext? Easy Access to a Rich Set of Online Tools 5
Education Toolkit Information Lectures Reflection Mentoring Assessment Forum/LMS Text documents Social media Meetings: Skype, phone, web, video conference Exams: online, digital school type, study hall News, messages Lecture books, learning objects Forum/LMS Discussion, chat Web site, university portal Tests: LMS, survey Text documents Podcast: Audio, video Study hall, kitchen table Forum/LMS Email Links and references Virtual meetings: web meetings, video conference Podcast Notes and reports: LMS 6 Slide from Hansen & Holteng, UiN
Multi Vendor World University College keep in sync, yet another user/pass University College University College Assessment Tools 7
8 Standards, standards, standards
Authentication in a Multi Vendor World University College LDAP SAML University College LDAP SAML SAML SAML University College LDAP SAML Assessment Tools 9
SAML Based Identity Management 10
Centralized Group Management Context & AuthZ 11
12 SURFteams
Centralized Group Management (1) Inter-institutional groups (SURFteams) University College LDAP SAML University College LDAP SAML SAML University College SURFteams HPC -end Services LDAP SAML 13
Centralized Group Management (2) Inter-institutional groups (SURFteams) Insitutional groups University College LDAP SAML GROUPS O.Social Grp SURFteams HPC ices Services 14
Lightweight Integration OpenSocial s Standard specification for the exchange of profile, group, activity and message data Gadgets: User of Web Standards (HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML) Aim: integration of multi vendor apps in one portal portal 15
SURFconext CSB Documents Repositorie s References Wiki 16
Apache Rave TUDelft NPG Workbench Sakai OAE 17
18 OpenSocial & Portals
SURFconext Building Blocks Federated Identity: SAML2 + Central Group Management = + Lightweight Integration: Open Social s 19
Testimonial Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam http://youtu.be/8s92bqjqslu 20
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22 Service Pipeline 2012+
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