Strategies for Clouds Mobility Eoin Kenny HEAnet 21

Strategies for Clouds & Mobility Eoin Kenny HEAnet 21 October 2021

Celebrating 15 years: 1997 - 2012

off-campus Mobility & Clouds on A campus On his/her campus User location Future Past on-campus private cloud Service location community cloud/public cloud

Mobility Trends

Trends • Anytime, Any place, Anywhere • Internet has become a necessity in life • Be on social networks or lose your friends • Streaming and Storage – move to cloud • Smartphone triggers impulsive usage • Great potential for Tablet PC Source: Ericsson Consumer Lab Study 2009 -2011

Clouds & Mobility “He won’t come in until he finds out if we have

Devices and Usage Explosion of mobile devices • Multiple devices per student • Over 100% growth in Wireless devices year-on-year (TCD) • 37 k mobile devices connecting to Wi. Fi in one month (UCD) • 70% traffic is social networking (UCD) • 2011 – More Smart Phones sold than PCs Usage › › Small screen - Mobile Large screen - Nomadic Streaming not download Coverage

An Irish University Campus 37, 000 unique devices on the Wifi network in Feb 2012 and rising!

Device Growth Post PC era has arrived! Q 4 2011 i. PAD sales now larger than all HP PCs. . . Mobile Broadband Subscriptions (HSDPA) 593, 208 September 2011 there were 5, 473, 757 Mobile phone subscriptions in Ireland 120%

HEAnet’s Mobility Strategy

Mobility Strategy Mobility Be on the move and on campus Provide national mobile broadband access service Advise and promote WLAN solution on/off campus Facilitate the use of new mobile devices Enabling access Any time Anywhere Any device

HEAnet/O 2 Mobile Broadband 10 GB 12 month contract Prepay upfront € 99. 90 for 10 mths 30 day rolling contract 5 GB € 9. 99 Postpay data bundle 2 GB shareable Prepay data bundle 700 MB every second month free

Mobility Broadband Traffic

eduroam, Ireland Europe

Who uses eduroam in Ireland?

eduroamers - Where do they go?

E-learning Next Generation learning and research Provide support for e- learning anytime anywhere Ensure sufficient Quality of Experience for e-learning Provide support of content delivery from the cloud Supporting Distance and Life Long Learning with data hungry content

HEAnet’s Cloud Services

National Education & Research Network Learning Schools Network 100 Mbit/s Collaboration Higher Education Network 1 Gbit/s Researcher Network 10 Gbit/s Innovation International Global Reach Data & Applications Hosting Webhosting Filesender Repositories Data Sets Wikis VLEs Media IPTV Blogs Streaming Video Conf Content e - Infrastructure Data Centres Fibre Backbone Storage High Performance Computing

Cloud Service Model Terminology

Cloud platforms Saa. S End Users Application Developers Network Architects Paa. S Iaa. S Thousands of others!

Iaa. S Paa. S Saa. S App App App Data Data Data Operating System Virtualisation Off campus cloud

In house - everything App Operating System Virtualisation On campus cloud App

Cloud platforms Saa. S End Users Application Developers Network Architects Paa. S Iaa. S Thousands of others!

Introducing Edu. Storage

Edu. Storage Service • Launch date Q 2 2012 • 500 TB initial usable capacity; – 250 TB per datacentre; – Scalable to 10 PB (or 32 PB with external controllers); • Presented as block-level, i. SCSI storage; • Thin provisioning; • Snapshots, replication, mirroring; • Integration with Edugate; • Utilisation reports, metering;

Edu. Storage Service Profile • SLA – Service available to use: 24 x 365 – Client support calls: 9 -5: 30, 5 d • Self-service – Authorisation thresholds configurable; • User Data – – Users own their data; Data resides in Ireland; Standard HEAnet AUP (data protection legislation); Service promotion within institutions;

Edu. Storage pricing • HEAnet absorbing setup cost – Cost recovery basis; – Price: € 275 per TB/year; • Comparison: Storage provider TB/year 300 TB, 3 years Dropbox € 1, 500 € 1, 350, 000 Amazon EBS (1 TB max) € 4, 320* € 3, 888, 000* a. Drive. com € 950 € 855, 000 *subject to Amazon’s network/traffic volume charges

Any time, Any place, Any device Mobility Cloud

Solution for everything. . .