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EAUC. John Milner Programme Manager JISC. 31 st March 2011. Who needs a Data Centre?. Answer. YOU DO! But you don’t need to own all of it You need on site capability to be minimised and extremely efficient (PUE 1.2 is doable in a small DC as Hertfordshire showed)
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EAUC John MilnerProgramme Manager JISC 31st March 2011
Answer • YOU DO! • But you don’t need to own all of it • You need on site capability to be minimised and extremely efficient (PUE 1.2 is doable in a small DC as Hertfordshire showed) • You need to deploy virtualised servers and storage wherever you can • You need to be “Cloud Ready”
The Universities Modernisation Fund • Intended to drive the shared services agenda • Focus on Research and Admin, but will have implications for Learning and Teaching too • Seeking savings and efficiencies both short and long term • Recognises the need for a coherent approach to the issues from the sector because piecemeal isn’t working
The Modernisation Strategy • Establish a brokerage at JANET(UK)and JISC to develop framework agreements with major operators and application suppliers • Define and market trusted services into the sector (Can’t just use Amazon, Google and Dropbox without risk management) • Institutions to rent services (short or long term through proper framework deals) not build DC and buy kit • SaaS PaaS IaaS all are relevant and depend on that move to virtualisation and on persuading some application suppliers to change their business models • The approach can have benefits in research, learning and teaching and administration • Realise industrial economies of scale - 50000 server environment 7 times better than 1000 server environment
Local Provision • Hertfordshire showed that using similar attention to detail as the “big boys” returns similar efficiency levels • The key is to minimise redundant cycles and bits in an environment that is economical by design • Cloud technology and virtualisation offers efficiency in deployment and redeployment of resources • The idea that you need control of the equipment to control the service is nonsense • There is no escape from local desktop and server provision because some applications won’t work properly in a cloud or virtual environment, so local and/or CoLo won’t go away
Green is not the point • Just getting your energy from a windmill doesn’t cut it • Reducing resource consumption is what’s needed and it can be arranged at relatively modest investment cost • It’s all about efficiency and money is the measuring stick we should use. • Acting in a coherent fashion the Sector has massive opportunities for savings as well as added value from research data management for example.
Questions • Any Questions? • j.milner@jisc.ac.uk