canarie and dair in 10 minutes sept 2014 f
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Slides from Susan St. Marie's Ottawa Ruby talk on CANARIE's DAIR Program (September 2014).TRANSCRIPT
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Why should you care? It’s a Free Canadian cloud service for testing and
development
CANARIE’s DAIR Cloud Programwww.canarie.ca
Contact: [email protected]
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Why?
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To accelerate Canadian innovation through research in both the public and private sectors
To drive the adoption of transformative technologies among our stakeholder communities
To ensure Canada continues to develop a vibrant knowledge economy that benefits all Canadians
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Building Tomorrow’s Digital Economy Today
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Cloud Services for Entrepreneu
rs
Identity Management Solutions
Software for
Research
Network & Network Services
DAIR ProgramFree cloud services for 1 year
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Digital Technology Megatrends
18x: size of mobile data traffic in 2013 vs global internet traffic in 200081%: global mobile data traffic growth in 2013500M: mobile devices added in 2013 alone
Mobile Devices
Big Data2.5 Exabytes: volume of data created daily, doubling each month44x: forecasted increase in data volume 2009-20201 week: time to process decoding of human genome today vs 10 years initially
Social Media100: hours of video uploaded to YouTube each minute
2: # of new Facebook users each second93%: adoption of social media by marketers
30+ Petabytes: volume of user generated data stored, accessed & analyzed by Facebook
Internet of Things2008: year in which # of things connected to Internet surpassed
world population50B: forecasted # of things connected to the Internet by 2020
Source: Cisco Visual Networking Index, IBM, IDC, The Economist, Huffington Post, Wikibon, YouTube, Pew Research, Business Insider, Global Web Index
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What is Cloud Computing?
A network of remote servers on the Internet to store, manage, and process data…
…instead of on local servers or personal
computers.
Much like our electricity grid
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What does Pizza have to do with Cloud?
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Pizza and Cloud Computing
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Who uses Cloud Computing?
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Why do SMEs/Entrepreneurs choose the Cloud?
50% Flexibility49% Hardware Cost Savings46% Increased Efficiency42% Space Savings38% Easy & Available Updates36% Energy Savings34% Increased Productivity32% Simplified Infrastructure32% Scalability25% Improved Interoperability23% Reduced Integration Issues
Source: www.ukfast.co.uk/cloud-hosting
59% of SMEs reinvested cloud-generated savings back into the
business.
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Digital Accelerator for Innovation & Research (DAIR)
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• Application development accelerator provisioned on the CANARIE network
• Powerful test-bed for SMEs to develop, test, & demonstrate new cloud applications
• Funded access to cloud computing, network & storage infrastructure (Infrastructure as a Service)
A kick-start to new cloud service
offerings
Mobilizes new cloud ICT
businesses in Canada
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DAIR submission page www.canarie.ca/en/dair-program/about
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Click on “Apply to DAIR” and then
choose the “Sign in or Register” tab at
the top right to create an account and complete the
application.
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DAIR Fact Sheet @ http://www.canarie.ca/en/dair-program/about
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Extra slides
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DAIR Cloud College Program
• 'Cloud sandbox’ for the AR office to support skills development within the program
• Each SME engagement project receives free DAIR computing resources (4 virtual servers + storage)
• After completing AR project, SME has up to a year on DAIR Cloud - AR projects seamlessly transition to SME once completed
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Leveraging transformative technologies in support of private sector innovation
Students and staff gain experience with leading edge cloud services technology
Support SME’s by delivering market relevant products and services utilizing the latest technologies
Avoid expense required to build in-house infrastructure
Reduce project ramp up time to 2-3 days from several weeks