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4 February, 2011 Budapest, Hungary Peter Szegedi, PDO szegedi@terena org

NRENs’ Strategic Perspective

szegedi@terena.org www.terena.org

NRENs Strategic Perspective

• n Storage and Cloud

Background

B f th P ti Before the Poznan meeting... Enric Mitjana Scientific Officer European Commission DG INFSO/ F3 - GEANT & e- Infrastructures ” I have consulted with several colleagues and none

• f us was aware of the existence of this task
• f us was aware of the existence of this task
• force. So, we thank you for letting us know about

its activities. ”

I nform ation request

Beyond the information available at › Beyond the information available at http: / / www.terena.org/ activities/ tf-storage/ we would like to know:

› what were the current motivations for the › what were the current motivations for the participants in this TERENA TF and › from which strategic perspective the TF looks at storage and clouds › how it positions vis-à-vis the activities mentioned above and › if it has plans to support these activities.

› TF-Storage found that it would be interesting to collect the NRENs’ strategic perspective on storage and cloud (if any) sto age a d c oud ( a y)

Recently...

› Neelie Kroes

Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda responsible for the Digital Agenda Towards a European Cloud Computing Strategy World Economic Forum Davos, 27 January 2011

› We see that many private, and increasingly also public,

• rganisations are developing their own approaches to the use
• f cloud computing.

› But... there are a number of questions that need to be q answered to make it happen in practice. These concern legal, technical and commercial issues. › I have started work on an EU-wide cloud computing strategy. This goes beyond a policy framework I want to make Europe This goes beyond a policy framework. I want to make Europe not just "cloud-friendly" but "cloud-active”.

› We want to extend our research support and focus on critical issues such as security and availability of cloud services › We will support pilot projects aiming at cloud deployment › We will support pilot projects aiming at cloud deployment. › I want to have this in place no later than 2012. Slide 4

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› Collect the NRENs’ strategic view on storage and cloud (services) into a paper.

› Short document, 15-20 pages › Overview on the problem space, NRENs’ situation, future perspectives, trends (if any) R f l › References, use cases, examples... › Not to define a common strategy of NRENs (not a primary goal) but try to be clear about the NRENs’ role in this arena. role in this arena.

› Benefits:

1 TF-Storage participants (TERENA Community) can

• 1. TF-Storage participants (TERENA Community) can

have a more complete view on national activities.

• 2. May help EC policy makers to take the right

assumptions. p

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TF-MSP and TF-Storage

TF MSP (NREN ) l k d t l d d › TF-MSP (NREN managers) looked at cloud and service outsourcing from a business/ service perspective on 6-7 September 2010

t l Cl d S i C dit ti N › to explore Cloud Services, Commoditzation, New Business Models and Working Together

TF St ti i t (t hi l ) id d › TF-Storage participants (techie people) provided their view on storage and cloud

SURF t CESNET NIIF PSNC › SURFnet, CESNET, NIIF, PSNC

› (SWITCH), GRNET, HEAnet, UNINETT, JANET & RAL › Others may come › Others may come...

W hite Paper

› I have started to compile a document including all the information available:

› TNC2010: Outsourcing panel discussion › TF-MSP Wiki:

› The NREN Cloud activities information page is at:

https: / / confluence.terena.org/ display/ msp/ NREN+ Cloud+ Activities

› TERENA General Assembly meeting in Luxembourg in October:

› http: / / www.terena.org/ about/ ga/ ga34/ CompGA34-7-15.pdf , http: / / www.terena.org/ about/ ga/ ga34/ 20101021GRNETgaClouds.pdf , http: / / www terena org/ about/ ga/ ga34/ 20101021RedIRISgaClouds pdf http: / / www.terena.org/ about/ ga/ ga34/ 20101021RedIRISgaClouds.pdf , http: / / www.terena.org/ about/ ga/ ga34/ 20101021SURFNETgaClouds.pdf and http: / / www.terena.org/ about/ ga/ ga34/ GA% 2810% 29021-Luxmins.pdf

› Press releases and web content:

› Logicalis connects high-density data centre and hybrid cloud i t JANET into JANET › HEAnet: Data Storage as a Commodity › SURFnet: Connecting to cloud services - A guideline for NRENs › SURFnet: Survey of Technologies for Wide Area Distributed Storage › Norwegian higher education cloud › etc... Slide 7

TERENA Com pendium : l d i f Storage related services of NRENs

› Housing, Storage, Hosting and Content Delivery Services

› This section explores the level of deployment for each type of service. › Distributed Storage for GRID users › Distributed Storage for any NREN users › Dedicated/ special connectivity to provide high levels

• f connectivity to commercial content servers or

commercial content Hosting of commercial content servers or › Hosting of commercial content servers or commercial content on the NREN network › Video servers for use by NREN sites › Mirroring of content from outside the NREN network › Mirroring of content from outside the NREN network

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TERENA Com pendium : l d i f Storage related services of NRENs

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DRAFT Table of Content

› 2. Storage technology and services

› 2.1. Traditional non-distributed SAN/ NAS storage 2 2 Cl d t › 2.2. Cloud storage › 2.3. Peer-to-peer storage › 2.4. Storage related services of NRENs

› 3. Cloud services › 3. Cloud services

› 3.1. Cloud service classification › 3.2. Question of outsourcing services to clouds

› 4. NRENs’ strategy in application services

› 4.1. Collaborative development of application services › 4.2. Joint procurement of commodity services

› 5. NRENs’ strategy in e-Infrastructure services

5 1 B ildi I f t t i l di t › 5.1. Building e-Infrastructures including storage › 5.2. Virtualising e-Infrastructures › 5.3. Mixing private and public clouds for commodity storage

› 6. Conclusions › 6. Conclusions

› 6.1. Outsourcing chain, service delivery model › 6.2. The role of NRENs

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Traditional ( non-distributed) SAN/ NAS storage

› Primary or production storage serves active applications and is › Primary or production storage serves active applications and is accessed randomly. › Secondary storage is used for data protection and is normally accessed sequentially

DAS SAN NAS CAS Example Seagate disk Dell PowerVault HDS USP 3PAR InServ NetApp Filer Windows server EMC Centera Caringo CAStor P t l SATA SAS FC iSCSI SMB NFS API XAM Protocol SATA, SAS FC, iSCSI SMB, NFS API, XAM Access Method block block file/directory

• bject

Connectivity Copper cable Fiber optic Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet Throughput 1.5 Gb/s- 3.0 Gb/s 1 Gb/s- 10 Gb/s 100 Mb/s- 10 Gb/s 100 Mb/s- 1 Gb/s Latency 5-10 ms 5-10 ms 20-50 ms 50-100 ms Use case Bulk storage OS/b t Enterprise li ti Unstructured data Archival data

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OS/boot applications

Cloud and P2 P ( netw orked) storage i

• verview

› Cloud storage is basically a storage accessed over a network › Another networked storage technology (now more and more available) Another networked storage technology (now more and more available) relies on members of a group storing each other’s data. This technology is called peer-to-peer (P2P) storage. Slide 12

TERENA Com pendium + l d i f Storage related services of NRENs

H i / l ti f iliti › Housing / co-location facilities › Webhosting / hot standby › Mail relay / back up services › Disaster recovery/ off site back up services › Disaster recovery/ off site back up services › Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure › Netnews/ Usenet server › Academic/ educational software distribution: frame agreements & clearing › FTP & Mirroring services (proprietary & non proprietary software, Wiki, etc.) › Hosting services/ applications for research and educational › Hosting services/ applications for research and educational community (e.g., scientific databases, Wiki, administration tools ) , › Media storage/ streaming facilities: media portals, streaming facilities (streaming server podcasting peer-to-peer facilities (streaming server, podcasting, peer-to-peer facilities), media conversion services

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DRAFT Table of Content

› 2. Storage technology and services

› 2.1. Traditional non-distributed SAN/ NAS storage 2 2 Cl d t › 2.2. Cloud storage › 2.3. Peer-to-peer storage › 2.4. Storage related services of NRENs

› 3. Cloud services › 3. Cloud services

› 3.1. Cloud service classification › 3.2. Question of outsourcing services to clouds

› 4. NRENs’ strategy in application services

› 4.1. Collaborative development of application services › 4.2. Joint procurement of commodity services

› 5. NRENs’ strategy in e-Infrastructure services

5 1 B ildi I f t t i l di t › 5.1. Building e-Infrastructures including storage › 5.2. Virtualising e-Infrastructures › 5.3. Mixing private and public clouds for commodity storage

› 6. Conclusions › 6. Conclusions

› 6.1. Outsourcing chain, service delivery model › 6.2. The role of NRENs

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Cloud service stack

› Application as a Service › Platform as a Service › Platform as a Service › Infrastructure as a Service

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TNC2 0 1 0 outsourcing panel

› In case of universities and higher education institutes

› outsourcing of commodity application services (e.g., student e- mails, document sharing) to public clouds › can be done with low risk (SaaS scenario). › However, joining forces at national level and let the NREN to j g negotiate with the commercial cloud service providers on behalf of a group of universities can have significant cost benefits and can simplify the procurement process. NRENs can play the coordination role of national “buying syndicates” here. › outsourcing of infrastructure related services (e.g., storage, computing) to public clouds › has more risks for individual universities (IaaS scenario) concerning the service operation data protection concerning the service operation, data protection, authentication and access control issues. › In case of these services the outsourcing to NRENs (where it is appropriate) has lower risk and universities can have natural trust in their NREN. NRENs can play the role of an p y infrastructure service provider or an infrastructure service proxy to public clouds here. Slide 16

TNC2 0 1 0 outsourcing panel

› In case of NRENs

› outsourcing of commodity application services (e.g., calendar system) to commercial clouds › seems to be straight forward (SaaS scenario). › The NRENs should get rid of the commodity services › The NRENs should get rid of the commodity services and concentrate on new service development and innovation for the benefit of their users. f l d ( k › infrastructure-related services (e.g., network operation, videoconferencing, storage, computing) › the mixing of NRENs own infrastructure service with public clouds seems to be a value-added IaaS scenario. › NRENs can hide the non-attractive features of public clouds and provide commodity cloud service to universities with tailor-made features (including federated access, data protection assurance, etc.) ede ated access, data p otect o assu a ce, etc ) exploiting public cloud back-ends.

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DRAFT Table of Content

› 2. Storage technology and services

› 2.1. Traditional non-distributed SAN/ NAS storage 2 2 Cl d t › 2.2. Cloud storage › 2.3. Peer-to-peer storage › 2.4. Storage related services of NRENs

› 3. Cloud services › 3. Cloud services

› 3.1. Cloud service classification › 3.2. Question of outsourcing services to clouds

› 4. NRENs’ strategy in application services

› 4.1. Collaborative development of application services › 4.2. Joint procurement of commodity services

› 5. NRENs’ strategy in e-Infrastructure services

5 1 B ildi I f t t i l di t › 5.1. Building e-Infrastructures including storage › 5.2. Virtualising e-Infrastructures › 5.3. Mixing private and public clouds for commodity storage

› 6. Conclusions › 6. Conclusions

› 6.1. Outsourcing chain, service delivery model › 6.2. The role of NRENs

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NRENs’ strategy in application services

C ll b ti d l t f li ti i › Collaborative development of application services

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› Joint procurement of commodity services

› SURFnet contract with Microsoft and Google › TERENA TCS...

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DRAFT Table of Content

› 2. Storage technology and services

› 2.1. Traditional non-distributed SAN/ NAS storage 2 2 Cl d t › 2.2. Cloud storage › 2.3. Peer-to-peer storage › 2.4. Storage related services of NRENs

› 3. Cloud services › 3. Cloud services

› 3.1. Cloud service classification › 3.2. Question of outsourcing services to clouds

› 4. NRENs’ strategy in application services

› 4.1. Collaborative development of application services › 4.2. Joint procurement of commodity services

› 5. NRENs’ strategy in e-Infrastructure services

5 1 B ildi I f t t i l di t › 5.1. Building e-Infrastructures including storage › 5.2. Virtualising e-Infrastructures › 5.3. Mixing private and public clouds for commodity storage

› 6. Conclusions › 6. Conclusions

› 6.1. Outsourcing chain, service delivery model › 6.2. The role of NRENs

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Strategy in national data storage

› Storage resources (e.g., direct block-level access) vs. Storage services › Traditional primary storage vs. Networked secondary t ( b k / hi ) storage (e.g., backup/ archive) › Storage service at institutional/ national vs. European level level › Serve institutions vs. individuals › Attaching cloud storage vs. Becoming a cloud storage provider

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NRENs’ strategy in e-I nfrastructure services

F ( l d) t i › Focus on (cloud) storage services

• 1. Virtualisation (resources): IaaS, architecture
• 2. Federation (access): AAI, SSO
• 3. Integration (services): combine services, peering

with commercials, commoditisation

› Trends in:

› Technologies... › Capacities: 0.5 PB – 15 PB › Services: iSCSI, WebDAV – content management, metadata, digital media - Cloud

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To be continued....

Th ’ i f › That’s it for now... › Please participate/ contribute! › Please participate/ contribute!

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