UMF Cloud Pilot
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The UMF Cloud Pilot is a community cloud for UK education delivered by Eduserv, a nonprofit IT services company. It provides infrastructure as a service including compute, storage, and networking resources. The cloud is hosted in Eduserv's secure datacenter in Swindon, UK and integrated with the JANET network. Resources will include over 1,500 processor cores and 10 petabytes of storage. Pricing will be offered via pay-as-you-go and reserved virtual datacenter models starting in early 2012.
UMF Cloud Pilot
- 1. UMF Cloud Pilot andy.powell@eduserv.org.uk @andypowe11
- 2. What is the UMF Cloud Pilot? compute and storage cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) designed to address the major concerns of HEIs data remains in the UK at all times operated for the long-term benefit of the UK academic sector integrated with the JANET network lower the costs associated with IT provisioning a community cloud for education umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk
- 3. Delivered by Eduserv not-for-profit IT services company best known in HEIs for OpenAthens and CHEST web hosting and development for government 20 year sustainable track record of growth >3.5m registered users of Eduserv-based services 115 staff - turnover of 贈16.5m in 2009/10 new datacentre in Swindon specifically for education and the public sector charitable mission to encourage the effective use of ICT in public good organisations umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk
- 4. Delivered from our Swindon Data Centre capacity and power for >600 racks of infrastructure modular design PUE efficiency design of <1.4 10 Gbit/s JANET backbone connectivity via new JANET PoP umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk
- 5. Hardware Cisco UCS blade infrastructure dual 6-core 3.06GHz processors with 64GB RAM initial deployment will scale to >1,500 cores, 8 TB of RAM Isilon storage clustered NAS solution with near-SAN performance initial deployment will scale to 10PB usable connectivity 2-tier Cisco switched network (core and distribution) fully resilient with no single point of failure (including dual path to JANET PoP) all ports running at 10 Gbit/s umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk
- 6. Our offer vCloud Compute OpenStack Compute VM Storage File Storage JANET Connectivity all accessed via a self-service portal integrated with the UK Access Management Federation with possibility of long term tape archiving in the future umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk
- 7. Timescales now vCloud Compute lab environment for use by UMF-funded SaaS projects Jan 2012 vCloud Compute general availability April 2012 self-service Web portal full billing infrastructure OpenStack Compute availability File Storage beta beyond storage preservation tier multiple datacentres umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk
- 8. Pricing models 2 pricing models PAYG (pay for what you use) Virtual Datacentre (pay for what you reserve) in mobile phone terms, PAYG vs. Pay Monthly why PAYG? flexibility why Virtual Datacentre? predictability umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk
- 9. Billing PAYG billed monthly in arrears against pre- registered credit card Virtual Datacentre billed monthly or annually credit card or by invoice annual tariff billed in advance discounts of up to 30% for annual commitment over-usage billed at PAYG rates umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk
- 10. Pricing 3 key principles return on investment by/for the community sustainability competitive prices formally available on Monday all prices ex-VAT we will probably offer some kind of introductory tier for institutions umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk
- 11. Concluding remarks wed welcome feedback on: the cloud platforms we support pricing and billing models anything else get in touch at umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk (where we are also blogging our progress) umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk