The Story Behind UW's Cloud Computing Initiative

Terry Gray, PhDAssociate VP, Technology Strategy

UW Technology

Cloud Seeding

UW meets the CloudUW meets the Cloud

Cloud Apps @ UWCloud Apps @ UW

64K UW users

60% of students ALREADY forward their UW email60% of students ALREADY forward their UW email

Infrastructure As A ServiceInfrastructure As A Service

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A Tale of Two CloudsA Tale of Two Clouds

"We're taking everything we do at the server level and saying we will have a service that mirrors that exactly."

-Bill Gates, quoted in NY Times 3 June 2008

Microsoft ViewMicrosoft View

“Google aspires to be a large portion of the cloud, or a cloud that you would interact with every day.”

-Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, BusinessWeek 13 Dec 2007

Google ViewGoogle View

HistoryHistory

1949: ADP founded (Cloud's spiritual ancestor?)1994: Hotmail1999: Salesforce.com2003: MySpace; Nick Carr: “Does IT Matter?”2004: Gmail, Facebook2005: YouTube2006: Amazon S3/EC2, Google Apps2007: MS announces ExchangeLabs; early talks2008: UW alumni email project; GA contract talks2009: UW pilot projects & launch of MS-OL, GAEE

Cloud AncestryCloud Ancestry

Mainframe Service Bureau

Free TV Personalization

WebTechnology

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Cloud CurrencyCloud Currencycloud concepts are old -except the biz modelcloud concepts are old -except the biz model

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Natural EvolutionNatural EvolutionWho ya gonna call (for commodity IT)?Who ya gonna call (for commodity IT)?

Individual

Departmental

Central

Cloud

Goodbye “IT priesthood”... Hello “Consumer Computing”

In the beginning...

Cloud Partnership MotivationsCloud Partnership Motivations

• Support campus technology needs/desires

• Enhance the cloud services

• Improve regulatory compliance

• Eventual reallocation of IT resources

IT Goal: any time/place/device access & collaboration

Leadership ConsensusLeadership Consensus

• UW should encourage use of cloud services, consistent with compliance obligations

• UW risk is reduced by executing partner contracts and encouraging their use

• UW should proceed with a dual-vendor strategy for collaborative applications

• Include faculty, staff and students, in order to maximize collaboration

Launching TodayLaunching Todayfor students & alumnifor students & alumni

• New options for email & collaboration• Partnership with Microsoft & Google• FERPA privacy protections• Use UW email address• Lots of storage; Ad-free; UW branding• UW NetID integration

• Sign up now!– uw.edu/googleapps– uw.edu/windowslive

cf. CSE Dept

Impact on UA ServicesImpact on UA Services

• Student Tech Fee Committee decision– UA services for students have been de-funded– Thus, they will migrate to cloud soon...

• Email– No new student Deskmail accounts as of Jan 2010– Phase out of student email servers later in 2010– Students may continue to use consumer accts

or UW – provided MS and Google accts

• Web publishing, etc– Roadmap will be developed during Fall quarter

Platform MigrationPlatform MigrationStarting Sept 2009Starting Sept 2009

Premium Cloud

Free Cloud

DedicatedExchange

PAST FUTURE

DedicatedExchange

Personal Cloud Services

Personal Cloud Services

MyUW.net(Alumni Email)

Deskmail(Uniform Access)50K

5K

40K

5K

40K

10K

10K

40K ++

New Alums

Premise: one size does not fit allPremise: one size does not fit all

We want both partners to succeed!!

How to Decide?How to Decide?collaboration!collaboration!

• Functionality & timing

• Personal preference

• Departmental preference

• Affinity group preference

• Can have accounts on both services

ConcernsConcerns

• Service maturity

• Privacy

• Interoperability

Service MaturityService Maturity

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Total Information AwarenessTotal Information Awareness

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Interoperability Interoperability example: the calendaring crisisexample: the calendaring crisis

Outlook/ExchangeUser

ITStaff

GoogleCalendar

User

Nevertheless:

Cloud computinguse will continue to soar.

Green CloudsGreen Cloudsand massive data centersand massive data centers

• Location, location, location

• Economy of scale

• Advanced Data Center designs

• Aggressive use of virtualization

Questions?