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UW and the Cloud Terry Gray, PhD Assoc VP, Technology Strategy 27 Aug 2010

UW and the Cloud Terry Gray, PhD Assoc VP, Technology Strategy 27 Aug 2010. 1. ABOUT UW. $3.7 Billion/year enterprise: 3 campuses; 2 hospitals; 450K managed IDs Centers in China (Beijing), Spain (Leon), Italy (Rome) 50,000 regular students + 45,000 “P&CE” students/year

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UW and the Cloud Terry Gray, PhD Assoc VP, Technology Strategy 27 Aug 2010

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  1. UW and the Cloud Terry Gray, PhD Assoc VP, Technology Strategy 27 Aug 2010 1

  2. ABOUT UW • $3.7 Billion/year enterprise: 3 campuses; 2 hospitals; 450K managed IDs • Centers in China (Beijing), Spain (Leon), Italy (Rome) • 50,000 regular students + 45,000 “P&CE” students/year • 30,000 faculty & staff, including 6 Nobel Laureates, 15 MacArthur Fellows • 270 distinct research centers • #1 in federal research $$ to public universities --every year since 1974 • A leader in number of student awards, scholarships, fellowships • 136 Fulbright, 35 Rhodes, 7 Marshall, 4 Gates Cambridge, etc • 9th in US for students studying abroad • Research on all continents, including Antarctica... and in oceans, space 2

  3. CONTEXT: Research Universities • Mission: discovery & innovation • Means: extreme collaboration • Globally, at scale • Culture: decentralized; diffuse authority • Collections of many independent businesses • A microcosm of “the Internet” http://liu.english.ucsb.edu/wiki1/images/4/4c/Collaboration.gif “Industry turns ideas into money; Universities turn money into ideas.” --Craig Hogan 3

  4. CLOUD COMPUTING @ UW 73K UW users 4 50% of students ALREADY forward their UW email!

  5. WHY THE CLOUD for UW? • It's where our students have gone, fac/staff are going • Enables easier collaboration • Leverages market agility, advances • Allows better use of scarce IT resources; lower cost → IT Goal: any time / place / device access & collaboration → Cloud computing supports this goal 5

  6. STRATEGIC PREMISES • Cloud computing is a big deal • UW should encourage it, modulo compliance obligations • Compliance risk is reduced via partner contracts • A single-vendor strategy will not work for UW • Integrating faculty/staff with students is essential 6

  7. COLLABORATION VISION the illusion of simplicity and coherence! • Seamless & simple collaboration across multiple platforms & orgs • Cal/Scheduling “just works” • Doc sharing invitations “just work” • User & resource discovery is easy no matter where data is hosted. • Robust federation replaces “Multiple Account Madness” • Work products “for the ages” 7

  8. COLLABORATION EXAMPLES • Physics prof conducting exams at multiple universities • iSchool teaching for-credit classes at other universities • Students living abroad; faculty on sabbatical • Global health researchers in Africa + gov't health agencies • Dentistry prof's longitudinal study w/practitioners in state • Industry expert teaches class; needs collab space that students and other industry experts can easily use • Shared workspaces for consortia and VOs (e.g. CSG) 8

  9. PRINCIPLES • Maximize user choice via standards-based services • Integrate via interoperability • Disintermediate and automate • Leverage high-scale / low-cost providers • Embrace and adapt consumer technology • Enable; don't block or mandate • Pervasive is better than Perfect • (e.g. IMAP vs. DeltaSync; CalDav vs. ActiveSync) 9

  10. NEW THE PLAYING FIELD UW Exchange Servers Microsoft Live@edu + BPOS Other cloud services UW SharePoint Servers Other universities Google Apps UW IMAP & Web Servers 10 The IT challenge: make collaboration work in this context!

  11. ISSUES • Risk management: regulatory compliance; eDiscovery • Interoperability (especially calendaring) • IAM integration (especially groups) • User support expectations, philosophy • Faculty concerns about privacy, intellectual property, etc • Adoption rates: carrots vs. sticks • Cloud provider business risks • Success indicators 11

  12. DISCUSSION 12

  13. UW Academic and Research Excellence Academic Return on Investment • Award more bachelors degrees per student FTE than any other state • 1st in US for alumni remaining in state where degree granted • 3rd in US for graduate degrees granted • Amongst the lowest in the nation for cost per degree as compared to peers • 5th in the US for after-degree-salary levels as compared to the cost of degree (Smart Money 12/08) International Rankings • 16th in the world for academic and research excellence (Shanghai Jiao Tong) • 4th in the world overall and 1st for public universities for scientific research citations (Science Watch) • 6 Nobel Prize winners, 15 MacArthur Genius Awards US Rankings • 1st in public university research funding; #2, overall • 2nd in federal funding for (international) area studies and foreign language programs • 4th in number of faculty members (86) who are members of nationally recognized academies • 1st in Primary Care in Medicine and Nursing Professional Programs • Numerous academic programs in the top 20 13

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