GEANT IaaS Framework and Cloud Experience - UK

1. GEANT IaaS Framework and Cloud Experience - UK Jessica Wu, Cloud Services Group Manager

2. Jisc’s evolving role in supporting our members….. • Jisc/Eduserv merger • AWS, Azure and O365 reseller • Jisc Cloud Solutions: • Consultancy, Professional Services & Managed Services • Cloud services provider on the UK G-Cloud 11 Now 2019 2018 2017 2012-2014

3. Jisc Cloud Solutions: Our capability Assessment & strategy Implementation Optimisation & support What are we trying to achieve? How ready are we? What’s our cloud strategy? What cloud services should we use? How do we design a robust solution? How do we make sure it is secure? How do we keep things running smoothly? How do we keep it secure? How do we minimise our spend? How do we track new features Consultancy Professional Services Managed Services AWS, Azure & Office 365 (inc. re-sell via G-Cloud & GÉANT)

4. Members’ activity with GÉANT IaaS framework

5. Benefits of the cloud and frameworks UKAEA - a member story • Why cloud – • To meet increasing demand for computational resources more cost effectively • To extend the local capacity flexibly without being tied into a single provider • About framework – • Allows us to more flexibly buy a smaller amount of resource as and when needed, vs buy a heavy chunk upfront and risk not using them all

6. Adopting Cloud is not simply a purchase …. First you need to resolve: • Strategic direction • Financial situation • Your ‘customers’ needs and expectations - (staff, researchers, students) • Cultural fit The use of digital technology to transform the way an organisation does its business

7. A typicaldigital transformationjourney

8. An approach to digital transformation Understand what you are trying to achieve Understand your culture and appetite for change Understand your compelling events Understand your stakeholders Understand your application estate

9. What are you trying to achieve? More control / up-skilling Greater agility Cost savings New ways of working Improved research outcomes Better student experience

10. What are your compelling events? • Data centre closure? • Hardware end of life? • Support end of life? These are usually poor drivers of transformation

11. Understand your estate • Applications, applications, applications • Work with your software vendors • Don’t get bogged down in the details of your infrastructure too early • At some stage you will need that detail • But don’t let the infrastructure tail wag the application dog

12. Understand your stakeholders Students Postgrads Staff (lecturers & researchers) Senior management IT staff

13. Culture Eats Strategy ForBreakfast Peter Drucker

14. Thinking about the Technology Rehosting in a lift-and-shift type operation Replacing by SaaS Refactoring / Rebuilding using native cloud features

15. Or, to put it another way SaaS before PaaS before IaaS

16. The hybrid question… ? Public Cloud On-premise / colocation

17. All that other technology stuff… • Connectivity • Security • Data protection • Managing spend • Up-skilling • Etc.

18. Summary • Jisc can help our members with a range of consultancy, professional services, managed services and public cloud re-sell • Frameworks offer members agility, flexibility, cost effectiveness and compliance • Digital transformation is at least as much about leadership and culture as it is about technology • Therefore need to start with understanding why you want to change • Adopting public cloud is a common consequence of digital transformation but is not a driver of change in its own right

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