Towards the clouds, together The IaaS framework Andres Steijaert SURFnet GÉANT cloud activity leader 1 December @ DI4R Brussels
There is work to be done Europe is largest producer of scientific data in the world Europe adopts clouds slower than other regions Education, Research TOWARDS THE CLOUDS and government TOGETHER adopt clouds slower than other sectors
Clouds, opportunities for research Lift and shift VMs, from on-premise to the cloud: flexible scaling Rich feature set, new and quickly evolving toolset High Performance Computing in the cloud SaaS, including collaboration and communication tools New cloud areas Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence 5
Artificial intelligence identifies plant species by looking at them
Google’s AlphaGo AI beats the world’s best human Go player Google DeepMind supercomputer learns 3,000 years of human knowledge in 40 days Jie said that AlphaGo’s performance left him “shocked” and “deeply impressed” in post-match statements, noting that the moves the computer played “would never happen in a human-to-human match.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/10/18/alphago-zero-google-deepmind-supercomputer-learns-3000-years/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/23/googles-alphago-ai-beats-the-worlds-best-human-go-player/
Analyse audio, pictures and video with machine learning algorithms from IBM, Google and Microsoft 8
Online machine learning chat bot The QnA Maker lets you create a knowledge base of questions and answers from online and editorial sources. Microsoft QnA Maker is a free, easy-to-use, REST API and web- based service that trains AI to respond to user's questions in a more natural, conversational way. Integrate Microsoft Cognitive Services to enable your bot to see, hear, interpret and interact in more human ways. https://qnamaker.ai 9
… it is important to ensure that … GET IN Data is handled safely and meets European and national regulations Services can be acquired through the institutions’ structures: Affordable and predictable cost and purchasing models (prevent bill shock) Limit network traffic costs and provide network integration Log in with institutional account GET OUT Data can be moved (to another provider) 10
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BRING THE CLOUD ON THE GROUND Making cloud services accessible: easy and safe to use through pan-European collaboration and agreements 12
ICELAND* RHnet 40 European GÉANT membership NORWAY* SWEDEN* FINLAND* SUNET CSC UNINETT National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) NATIONAL MEMBERS 1 per country REPRESENTATIVE MEMBER NORDUnet* ESTONIA EENet ASSOCIATES Collaborate in their European association GÉANT: ADVA Optical Networking LATVIA Ministry of Science and Education Alcatel-Lucent Network, Identity Management, Clouds DENMARK* DeiC LITHUANIA Ciena Corporation LITNET CERN BELARUS IRELAND UIIP NASB Cisco Systems HEAnet UNITED KINGDOM NETHERLANDS Janet SURFnet POLAND *CSC (Finland) GERMANY Deliver to 10.000 organisations with 50 million users DFN PCSS *DeIC (Denmark) BELGIUM Belnet ECI Telecom GmbH CZECH REPUBLIC LUXEMBOURG CESNET RESTENA SLOVAKIA EMBL SANET AUSTRIA European Space Agency MOLDOVA Collective hybrid multi-cloud approach, build and buy ACOnet HUNGARY FRANCE SWITZERLAND RENAM HUNGARNET RENATER SWITCH Level 3 Communications SLOVENIA ROMANIA ARNES RoEduNet Public clouds: procure from commercial suppliers ownCloud SERBIA CROATIA AMRES CARNet *RHnet (Iceland) MONTENEGRO BULGARIA ITALY MREN Community clouds: develop and operate sector BREN *SUNET (Sweden) GEORGIA GARR GRENA MACEDONIA ALBANIA Tata Communications ANA MARnet SPAIN ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN PORTUGAL RedIRIS/RED.ES specific solutions ASNET-AM ANAS *UNINETT (Norway) FCT|FCCN TURKEY GREECE ULAKB İ M GRNET MALTA CYPRUS University of Malta Cynet One digital single market, with many cloud services ISRAEL IUCC
Scale up national community cloud solutions to a European level Greek IaaS cloud Accessible by whole built and operated by GRNET European Research and Education community Single sign-on Log-in with institutional account French web conferencing service built and operated by RENATER
IaaS tender For Infrastructure as a Service offerings (IaaS) On behalf of 36 NRENs and their institutions, GÉANT conducted a pan-European tender
IaaS tender Which enables the NRENs and their institutions to run a tender together GÉANT applied via one EU procurement directive central purchasing body: 2014/24/EU GÉANT 16
IaaS tender outcome: Framework Agreements awarded, valid until end of 2020 via resellers via resellers
Why use the IaaS services? Ready-to-use Discounted prices agreements, for all institutions, which comply with EU large and small. data protection law Invoice billing, no credit card needed, accommodating capital expenditure through upfront commitments Transfer existing Sign your Manage educational contract usage and licenses to the under spending cloud local law Reduced traffic costs, through suppliers’ Single sign-on connections to the support (SAML2) Benefits of the framework agreements GÉANT network 18
How can institutions use the services? Use directly EU institutions can buy the offerings directly There is no need to run your own tender
Online Cloud Catalogue: ‘IaaS service matrix’ - Displaying providers’ capabilities Online Cloud Catalogue: ‘IaaS service matrix’ Displaying providers’ capabilities 20
Qu Quality & & Qu Qualifications in instit itute (QQI QQI) in in Irelan land ac achie ieves substan antial ial sa savings s with GÉANT Cloud Fr Framework rk Average daily spend Nov 2016 – Oct 2017 AZURE AVERAGE SPEND DAILY NOV 16- OCT 17 115% 33% cost reduction 110% after QQI worked with the Irish NREN, 105% HEAnet, 100% to transfer their Microsoft Azure workloads to the GÉANT framework agreement, 95% 90% 85% from July 2017 onwards 80% 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - v c n b r r y n l g p t u e a p c o a e a u u e J O D M A M N J F J A S 09/11/2017 23
https://clouds.geant.org NREN contacts Supplier contacts LOW RISK MEDIUM RISK HIGH RISK On-premise In country In EU + EEA Anywhere, Data type (at the institute) In non-EU non-EEA public Y Y Y Y Data for public use Personally Identifiable data Sensitive Data is not generally available (Personally Identifiable) data unrestricted Y Y Y Y Loss of confidentiality, to the public integrity, or availability of the Loss of the data or system restricted Y Y Y N data or system has no Loss of of the data or system could have a significant could have a mildly adverse adverse impact on our significant impact confidential Y Y Y , but onlyin N impact mission, safety, finances or community cloud reputation. secret Y Y Y , but only in N community cloud Cloud deployment guidance
https://clouds.geant.org clouds@geant.org DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET FOR CLOUD SERVICES
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