YHMAN Shared Virtual Data Centre – a ‘Community Cloud’
YHMAN Community Cloud
Rhys Davies - Chair of YHMAN
& Director of IT at the University of Leeds
Ed Carter - YHMAN Business Manager
Presentation to UCISA 2013, 13th March 2013
YHMAN Shared Virtual Data Centre – a ‘Community Cloud’
YHMAN is a joint venture company of 8 universities in
Yorkshire & Humberside UK, est. 1998
The business drivers - ‘do more for less, better’
• Funding changes require UK universities to
deliver even more within tightening budgets
• Increasing pressure to deliver measurable cost efficiencies
• Institutions must meet carbon reduction commitments
• Opportunities to exploit economies of scale & balance asset utilisation
across shared service partners
• To enable growth and enhanced service standards
• Stringent security requirements to adhere to with
IPR & data protection
YHMAN from trusted network service provider
to trusted IT/IS services delivery
Retained Data Ownership by the Client in the UK
Our Community Cloud
Unique features
• Multi-site geographic mirrored data with High Available compute
for real-time resilience
• Shared Costs Group - sector members benefit from success
(John Lewis/Waitrose model)
• We understand your business - HE, FE and associated sectors
• A Community Cloud focused on sector needs allowing sector &
independent software vendors (ISV) to optimise requirements & solutions
to our needs
• Innovating sector specific products (e.g. UniVault)
• Supplying best in class network services
Yhman
• Place to be for research datasets
Univ
• Devolved management as appropriate .....
User
• Your data is yours ... (always)!
Retained Data Ownership by the Client in the UK
We believe we have the world’s most advanced geographically distributed
Data Centre Network - built on a 180km protected-ring with 2 Janet interconnects
& 3 DC sites providing high performance, resilience & best-practice BCDR
JANET/YHMAN Core Network Connection Points
(Points-of-Presence, PoP)
80km
Overlay Virtual Data Centre Network:
• Low Latency allowing synchronous multi-way data
storage mirroring
• Providing the Data Centre (DC) interconnects,
currently 3 DCs but more can be provisioned
as demand grows, optimised for access performance
We wish to capitalise on our Community Cloud service
for the UCISA
members
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The Service Offering
“Vanilla VM” - a Resilient Multi-Server Environment
Rapid provisioning of blank VM environments in a highly available,
geographically dispersed environment
UK based data store
Example simple first step - external facing web sites
“Vanilla Plus”
Provisioning virtual environments from a library of VM images
Managed service environments: Win, Unix, Web
“Vanilla Flex ”
Campus to Cloud Hybrid Burst to meet peak loads
“Managed Applications “
Managed services for Research, Learning & Admin
Retained Data Ownership by the Client in the UK
The Service Offering
------- UniVault for Win, Mac & Mobile Clients -------
“UniVault” Cloud Storage
Collaborative file sharing for researchers, organisations worried
about security, compliance & IPR. UK hosted, ISO27001, RDM
Wellcome Trust, IGT accredition.
“Super Store” Storage-as-a-Service
Easy provisioning of enterprise storage do to with what you will
(backup, archive, database provision….)
The YHMAN “UniVault” service authenticates users against organisation AD servers.
The organisation allocates licences & cloud storage to AD users.
Users can then collaborate with others, world-wide, for selective file sharing.
YHMAN is today inviting a limited number of organisations to trial UniVault for 1 month.
Please register your interest before leaving today’s presentation.
Retained Data Ownership by the Client in the UK
Journey to UniVault
------- UniVault for Win, Mac & Mobile Clients -------
Capacity & License
Cloud Store
The
Yhman
YHMAN Cloud
Store Wrap:
- Version Control
- Dedupe
- Archive
Cloud
University
Managed
Active
Directory
User
Secure
Sync & Share Files
Global Collaboration
UniVault
Retained Data Ownership by the Client in the UK
The Service Offering
“Footprint”
High quality, resilient, data centre space to run your kit
“Continuum”
Primary provision of high availability systems for business continuity
“Helping Hands”
Professional service
change experts who help
with capability & capacity
Advisory capability to
research areas of interest
and development
Technical experts to
transition from current
state to the SVDC
The Service Offering
“Archive and Discovery”
Longer term data retention, appropriate Tiered Storage
“Back-up”
Periodic data copy
“Super Compute”
Integrated access to HPC from the Shared-Cloud
“Data Sets”
Hosted data sets for the community with smart analysis
Retained Data Ownership by the Client in the UK
YHMAN Shared Virtual Data Centre – a ‘Community Cloud’
YHMAN Community Cloud
- Thank you - Q&A -
Leadership in the Public Sector
Best Practice: YHMAN
The Practical Cloud: YHMAN
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