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GÉANT Cloud Activity Towards Pan-European Cloud Services

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Our mission

Meeting user needs through a community effort, adding value in the process

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Meeting user needs: Providing the right choices • Faster and easier access to a range of useful cloud services by creating the right legal, procurement and technical environments.

• Creating a strong community voice, based on the aggregation of demand across GÉANT members, to get the optimum technical and commercial solutions from vendors • Adapted to common community requirements and standards such as federation

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Meeting user needs: Cloud collaboration areas NREN Questionnaire: • Interest in specific types of services COLLABORATION SUITES

REALTIME COMMUNICATION

• Willingness to participate • Varying maturity

• Varying scopes/mandates • IaaS highest priority

FILE STORAGE AND SYNC

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INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE

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Community effort: By the community – for the community • Trusted broker and advisor, acting on behalf of the community in a collaborative effort, leveraging the benefits of the GÉANT network, federation and combined expertise.

• Sharing resources, experiences and knowledge, establishing common standards and requirements • Aggregating demand, enabling efficiency and economy of scale

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Foundation: four main areas

STRATEGY

STANDARDS

REQUIREMENTS

CATALOGUE

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Initiated spring 2013 (GN3+) Clouds are happening Community demand Willingness to work together Common approach

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Community effort: Strategy and standards

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Community effort: Requirements and catalogue

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Added value: The benefits of clouds, adapted to the community • Maximizing benefits, minimizing risks • Federation and integration; adapting the services to the R&E community portfolio • Data control; adhering to legal and security demands, getting in and out in a timely manner

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Added value: Key areas

TERMS & CONDITIONS BROKERAGE PROCUREMENT

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FEDERATED IDENTITY MANAGEMENT & SINGLE SIGN-ON

NETWORK PEERINGS

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Towards Pan-European Cloud Services for Research and Education Joint NREN efforts • A rich set of suitable services - put services ‘on the shelves’ • Bring these services to the community - get services 'off the shelves', in the hands of R&E users

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Communication and support • Website and catalogue • Webinars, showcases, tutorials • Workshops • Adaptable materials

• Presentations at meetings & user conferences • Coach / Key Account Manager

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Possibilities and challenges for the NRENs • A working business model • Aggregating demand - paying after use • Risk management • Distribution • Broker or vendor?

• Funding the collaboration

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Added value for Cloud Service Providers • One set of requirements, agreements and standards; efficiency and economy of scale rather than extensive legal and commercial effort for highly customized agreements for a large number of institutions.

• Market access to advanced, trusted and reputable institutions and users across Europe • Approved and promoted by GÉANT and the NRENs – the trusted advisors of the European Research and Education community

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Thank you

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© GEANT Limited on behalf of the GN4 Phase 1 project (GN4-1).

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 691567 (GN4-1).

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