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University Modernisation Fund Shared Services and the CloudMatthew J. DoveyProgramme Director, Digital Infrastructures (Research)
19th September 2011
TERENA-TF
The programme:
£12.5 million programme
Part of a suite of activities under the University Modernisation Fund (UMF), a HEFCE fund that aims to help universities and colleges deliver better efficiency and value for money through the development of shared services.
Managed by JISC
Two core strands:
– A: Investment of up to £10 million in cloud computing, shared IT infrastructure, support to deliver virtual servers, storage and data management applications.
– B: Investment of up to £2.5 million to establish cloud computing and shared services in central administration functions to support learning, teaching, and research.
Strand A: Shared IT infrastructure
Background Principles
Using virtualised servers and storage on an industrial scale from the commercial sector should be cheaper than building data centres and buying servers within Higher Education Institutions
Researchers need to engage with a well ordered environment for data management to achieve efficient and effective data curation
The plan
Establish a brokerage in JANET(UK) that can negotiate service supply and connect suppliers to JANET and thus create “Trusted Cloud(s)”
Pilot cloud being designed for implementation at Eduserv Data Centre
Extend the role of Data Curation Centre to deploy data management tools, policies and support in the Trusted Cloud
Find “killer data management apps” that can be deployed to attract researchers into the Trusted Cloud(s):
– Leicester University is providing support for joint NHS and university research teams working with tissue samples and anonymised patient data.
– The University of Oxford is providing a database to a wide range of researchers in the arts, humanities and other disciplines.
– Oxford is also providing an integrated set of tools to manage data within Life Sciences and other similar research projects. This will make it easier to submit data for longer-term storage in an appropriate standards compliant data repository.
– Southampton University is providing electronic lab data management and collaborations tools.
JANET Brokerage
Working as the sector’s broker for Data Centre / Cloud services
– develop relationships with commercial partners
– aggregate sector requirements & represent the sector
– negotiate advantageous terms for new services
– Providing infrastructure base through brokered deals
– Clearing house for spare capacity in sector and beyond
To add value through brokering and gaining beneficial commercial arrangements, frameworks and licences etc.
Guiding themes
Enabling re-use/re-sale of existing provision & capacity
Identifying new models and opportunities
Supporting adoption of new technologies & models
Support organisations and maintain autonomy within institutions
Promoting interoperability, open standards and data formats
De-risking new models and services (SLAs, T&Cs, governance)
Creating an effective competitive market for suppliers
Enabling new projects, developments, and shared services
JANET Brokerage
Strand B: Shared services for administration
Systems and Services Procurement Support
What?
A specialist team established within JISC Advance to improve the effectiveness of (non-commodity) application systems procurement in the sector and to help institutions reduce costs by moving core business systems to an off-site shared service model.
How?
A procurement service whose primary function is to support the buying/sales process delivering the best possible deals for sector and supplier
Creating the building blocks for the interconnection of administration systems
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/umf/ssps.aspx
Systems and Services Procurement Support
The procurement service will provide IT procurement advice and guidance to HEIs
identify and aggregate demand enabling fewer, larger procurements
establish framework agreements which institutions can use
lead IT procurements on behalf of HEIs
up-skill HEIs in the black art of IT procurement
help renegotiate unfavourable contracts
provide vendor and contract management
Systems and Services Procurement Support
The ESB service will connect HEIs to remote services JISC Advance will build and operate a cloud-hosted
shared service enterprise service bus (ESB)
JISC Advance will offer implementation expertise to HEIs who want to implement a local ESB
JISC Advance will develop and maintain adapters to connect applications to the shared service ESB
Procurement Service
Internet JANET
UKBA
HESA HEFCE
TfL
UCAS
SLC
Possible future connections to External Agencies
NHS
Enterprise
Service Bus
Local ESB
DemandAssistance
TrainingGuidance
Frameworks
Local Applications
Remote Applications DARE RMAS modules
Remote Applications
Hosting Environment
Universities
Admin Systems Suppliers
Consultancies and Integrators
Aggregated Procurements
JISC Advance
Research Management Administration System (RMAS)
Cloud-hosted modules that support the management and administration of a university’s research programme from pre-award through to post award.
It will include information on costing; application submission; contract and project administration; monitoring and reporting.
Procurement managed by SSPS
New modules to connect to existing systems using a cloud-hosted shared service enterprise service bus.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/umf/rmas.aspx
RMAS Architecture
Shared Service Enterprise Service Bus
CRM WorkflowElectronic Document
Management
Academic Expertise
Funding Sourcing
Tool
Proposal Management
Costing & Pricing
Management
Post Award Management
Outputs & Outcomes
Local ESB
Module1…n
Shared electronic resource management support service
This project aims to establish a service to deliver a baseline software solution for above campus electronic resource licensing, management and access. Managed by JISC Collections the shared service will provide institutions with a more joined up offering to help them better understand which resources to cancel or renew and to minimise errors in data that can result in institutions losing access to resources, directly impacting on researchers, teachers and students.
Collecting and managing the relevant data is costly. Whilst many aspects of the information are common across the whole UK HEI community, currently this information is collected many times over and updates or corrections to the data discovered by one institution cannot be easily shared across the community.
Digital Academic Records Exchange (DARE)
Project DARE will deliver a system for the secure on-line delivery of degree certificates, transcripts, Higher Education Achievement Reports and other student data and documents via Digitary as a Shared Service.
The service will be suitable for deployment as Software as a Service on a hosted cloud platform.
DARE is led by Liverpool John Moores University with Bath Spa University, Coventry University, Cranfield University, De Montfort University, School of Oriental and African Studies and University of Sheffield.
Working with Digitary, ULCC, Centre for Recording Achievement and HESA
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/umf/DARE.aspx
Further Details
UMF Programme
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/umf
Matthew Dovey, Programme Director, Digital Infrastructure (Research)
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tel: +44 203 006 6016
E-Infranet ERANET - Objectives
Identify existing programmes
Analyse the programmes and policies
Provide a platform for debating
Exchange strategic views
Prepare and implement joint policy activities
Joint policy programmes and calls
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e-Infranet Partners
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The project was originally established by representatives from ministries and funding agencies in nine countries
e-Infranet Partners
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Organisation Country
Higher Education Authority Ireland
Joint Information Systems Committee United Kingdom
SURFfoundation Netherlands
Foundation for Science and Technology Portugal
Latvian Academy of Sciences Latvia
Ministry of Science and Innovation Spain
IT Centre for Science Finland
National Information Infrastructure Hungary
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
Turkey
Focus Areas
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GreenCloudOpen
A three-year project, 2010 - 2012.Project budget = 1.25m euros
Cloud Overview
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Overview of National Programmes in Europe – Cloud Computing
Key QuestionsWhy invest?
Benefits to Research?Impact on Research Infrastructures?
Cloud Workshop
DirectionsCloud EconomicsHorizon ScanningCloud Brokerage
Cloud Workshop
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• Objective: identify key national and EU collaboration possibilites for more effective use of the Cloud across the ERA. Explore how to best organise this collaboration
• Participant preparations: Position papers •Target groups: researchers, funders, policy makers, industry
• Key topics: cloud economics and full costs, environmental implications of cloud computing, implications for funders , the role of cloud as part of a rich ecosystem of provision, likely longevity and maturity of cloud technology, possibilities for transnational collaboration, the legal framework, the emerging EU strategy on cloud
• Conclusions: Three identified directions…
Cloud Directions
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Cloud brokerage: the need to provide support service to the research community to enable them to take advantage of Cloud solutions
Cloud economics: the need for a comprehensive, clear and convincing study of the full economic and environmental costs, benefits and risks of cloud computing
Horizon scanning: the need for continued international horizon scanning of the cloud field and intelligence briefings for funders and researchers
Cloud Action Plan
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Action 1: Cloud Economics
Action 3: Policy Paper “Cloud strategies for e-Research: key issues for policy makers (costs, benefits, risks, governance, environmental, financial,
technical, management, federation, standards, etc. )”
Action 2: Cloud collaboration and co-ordination - feasibility and blueprint
Cloud Objectives
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Single focus on policy support for decision making process at international/EC and national funding agency levels
Co-ordinated expert input to evaluation of options for the strategic development of cloud computing infrastructure for the ERA
Further Details
UMF Programme
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/umf
Matthew Dovey, Programme Director, Digital Infrastructure (Research)
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tel: +44 203 006 6016
Questions
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