Creating synergy through private cloud The Wits cloud

Creating synergy through private cloud The Wits cloud architecture Prof Derek W. Keats Deputy Vice Chancellor (Knowledge & Information Management) The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg http: //kim. wits. ac. za derek. keats@wits. ac. za

DVC: Academic Management information Vice Chancellor Strategic planning 2008 DVC: Finance & Ops DVC: Research Registrar Human resources Libraries Computer & networking srvs Centre for Learning & Teaching Dev e. Learning DVC: Advancement

2009 Vice Chancellor DVC: Academic DVC: Finance & Ops DVC: Research e. Learning Libraries Registrar Management information DVC: KIM Computer & networking srvs DVC: Advancement

Innovation driven Where are there opportunities to create synergy, leading to innovation? Process Innovation Support (people) Technology Innovation

What do I mean by innovation? Having a new idea ● Implementing it in technology ● Taking it through to operation ● Creating benefit from it ● institutional context

Institutional context The cutting edge We help to lead technology trends Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Option 5 Mature but relatively new technologies Option 1 We create and use new technologies before anyone else Safe, proven, mature old technologies Risk without ecosystem

Institutional context The cutting edge We help to lead technology trends Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Option 5 Mature but relatively new technologies Option 1 We create and use new technologies before anyone else Safe, proven, mature old technologies Risk with ecosystem

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Infrastructure projects Wits web presence e. Learning email

Private cloud infrastructure Simplified view Wits portals email e. Learning Compute cloud Hierarchical storage Robotic tape library Spinning disks Flash memory

Private cloud infrastructure Simplified view Hosted services Wits portals email e. Learning Digital archive Compute cloud Hierarchical storage Robotic tape library Spinning disks Flash memory

Private cloud infrastructure Hosted services Wits portals email Application e. Learning Digital archive Application Data grid Object store Middleware Hardware layer Virtualization Operating System Compute cloud Hierarchical storage Robotic tape library Spinning disks Flash memory

Private cloud infrastructure Hosted services Wits portals email e. Learning Digital archive Free and Open Source Software Application Data grid Object store Middleware Hardware layer Virtualization Operating System Compute cloud Hierarchical storage Robotic tape library Spinning disks Flash memory

Private cloud infrastructure Hosted services email Zimbra Wits portals e. Learning Digital archive Chisimba DSPACE Chisimba i. RODS Fedora Glassfish Hardware layer Virtualization OS: Open Solaris Compute cloud Hierarchical storage Robotic tape library Spinning disks Flash memory

Private cloud infrastructure Hosted services email Zimbra Wits portals e. Learning Digital archive Chisimba DSPACE Chisimba i. RODS Fedora Glassfish Hardware layer Virtualization Public Cloud OS: Open Solaris Compute cloud Hierarchical storage Robotic tape library Spinning disks Flash memory

Private cloud infrastructure Hosted services email Zimbra Wits portals e. Learning Digital archive Chisimba DSPACE Chisimba i. RODS Fedora Glassfish Hardware layer Virtualization OS: Open Solaris Compute cloud Hierarchical storage Robotic tape library Spinning disks Flash memory

Built on a stack of FOSS applications and libraries using a suite of FOSS development and collaboration tools

j. Query The stack Cross platform RESTful API Ajax Mashable XMPP Mobile phone Online package management SWORD ext. JS Javascript Fedora PEAR prototype PHP CURL Chisimba Version 4 will be fully distributed & cloud-ready My. SQL GNU/Linux FFmpeg gstreamer Python Open Office Flash Java Open Jabber fire SWF tools RED 5 Open Zoom

Chisimba initiatives at Wits Presentation repository e. Learning infrastructure Semantic and connected archive Web infrastructure Student self-service portal

Archiving and preservation Historical papers Library collections History memory project Video and audio collections e. g. Wits TV Donations of significant collections from industry History of human evolution Institutional papers and documents e h T al u s u

Creating semantic and socially connected archives repositories museums herbaria

Semantic and social archive University of the Western Cape Fedora commons SWORD API Chisimba 'Portals' e. Learning Chisimba API Chisimba SWORD API Fedora Commons XMPP University of the Witwatersrand

Private cloud infrastructure Hosted services email Zimbra Wits portals e. Learning Digital archive Chisimba DSPACE Chisimba i. RODS Fedora Remote site Glassfish Virtualization OS: Open Solaris Compute cloud Hierarchical storage Robotic tape library Spinning disks Remote site Flash memory i. RODS

Private cloud infrastructure Hosted services email Zimbra Wits portals e. Learning Digital archive Chisimba DSPACE Chisimba i. RODS Fedora Glassfish Virtualization OS: Open Solaris Compute cloud Hierarchical storage Robotic tape library Spinning disks Remote site Flash memory Remote site

i Rule Oriented Data Systems a grid-level middleware for sharing data and metadata distributed across heterogenous resources adaptive middleware Micro-services Key: Rule Oriented

Use in establishing digital archive Remote site IRODS rules Digital archive IRODS rules Ingest Born digital Digital conversion Source artifacts Video Audio Docs Chisimba DSPACE Fedora Ingest OS: Open Solaris First tier storage Robotic tape library Remote site i. RODS Glassfish etc IRODS rules Private cloud infrastructure Compute cloud Storage cloud Digital conversion Source artifacts i. RODS IRODS rules

Enterprise document management An approach using private cloud Workflow managed by i. Rods layer WWW Site i. Folder client i. Rods Site Network i. Rods Born digital i. Folder client Network Site Ingest i. Folder server i. Rods Chisimba Private cloud infrastructure

Archiving email e. Learning Web & portal Enterprise document management Hosting services Tutu project Other Private sector donation National archive initiatives Provincial and local project initiatives National research data archive

Conclusion Private cloud can be a means to create synergy There is nothing special about it But combined with software engineering capacity, there is a lot of innovation potential The architecture we have used is suitable for many similar initiatives National archiving infrastructure?

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