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Race to the Top Technology Infrastructure and Services NC Education Cloud. Phil Emer. Organization & Collaboration. SBE. DPI Leadership Team. advises. RttT Technology Infrastructure Advisory Committee. Program Director. LEA Working Groups. Project Management.
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Race to the TopTechnology Infrastructure and ServicesNC Education Cloud Phil Emer
Organization & Collaboration SBE DPI Leadership Team advises RttT Technology Infrastructure Advisory Committee Program Director LEA Working Groups Project Management Application workload testing Collaborative Services Working Group Site surveys and inventory RFP - vendor specifications Shared Services Working Group Digital Media and Licensing Working Group Planning & Design E-rate and CIPA DRAFT
The RttT Technology Project Team DPI Partner Organizations Peter Asmar Adam Levinson Rebecca Garland The Friday Institute MCNC Program Director Phil Emer NCSU ITng Lab NC ITS Cloud Services NEW Instructional Tech Neill Kimrey NCVPS Network & E-rate Ed Chase PM Office Jerry Bunn Data Systems Mike Veckenstedt DRAFT
Partner Roles DRAFT
Budget Big Picture DRAFT
Provider Contracts Budget [Numbers in millions of US dollars] Via task order per UNC system-DPI master agreement Via existing DPI-MCNC services agreement Multiple “cloud” providers selected via competitive procurement DRAFT
Statewide SW/content Budget [Numbers in millions of US dollars] DRAFT
NC Education Cloud DRAFT
NC Education Cloud Model DRAFT
Cloud-enabled LEA Transition server, appliance, and network control infrastructure to the cloud DRAFT
Infrastructure Blueprint • Servers housed in Tier-4 data centers • 24x7x365 monitoring and support • Service Level Agreements with teeth • Usage-based provisioning and billing • Tiered data backup and recovery • Near-real-time provisioning DRAFT
A Service Delivery Platform • The NC Education Cloud is a service delivery platformfor modern instructional and administration support systems • Initial statewide services • Hosted i-series • MS Live@edu and Google Enterprise • Learning Management System (LMS) • Web collaboration • Identity management DRAFT
Services Guiding Principles • No state-managed source code • Single Sign-on enabled (via SAML for instance) • Open interfaces and API’s • Software-as-a-service is the default choice • Strict service level agreements DRAFT
The State will • Conduct site surveys of LEA infrastructure, applications, and support • Collaborate with LEAs to develop and implement a deployment and operating plan for the NC Education Cloud • Deploy an NC Education Cloud infrastructure and service delivery platform DRAFT
LEAs Will • Incorporate the state infrastructure NC Education Cloud elements into technology plans • Adopt the infrastructure blueprint • Provide and support student, teacher, administrator access to LMS, web collaboration, and related tools and services DRAFT
LEAs May • Propose pilots based on existing or developing school, LEA, or regional models • Request support related to pre-existing cloud-based service deployments • Provide regional administrative and operating support for particular cloud-delivered services DRAFT
Questions? Contact: • Program Lead - Phil Emer, paemer@unity.ncsu.edu 919 513 8511 • DPI Lead – Ed Chase, echase@dpi.state.nc.us 252 361 8988 (Technology directors will be invited to participate in a Webinar in early October to further clarify the Cloud Objectives and to answer questions) DRAFT