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Hybrid clouds, hypovisors and ‘data centre lite’ mini-pods
The Future of the Data Centre 2012(20th September)
Dr Phil Richards
Director of IT, Loughborough University
Overview
The local problems we were trying to solve
How we did it
The wider problem our sector wants to solve
The barriers to this
Can we break through them?
The problems we were trying to solve
Distributed Data-centres Under Desks (DDUDs)
Holywell Park ‘data centre lite’ mini-podavoiding expensive new build
Resilient local cloud architecturefor high availability
Mini pod 1 Mini pod 2
De-risking the cloud and avoiding major build:Loughborough’s Hybrid Cloud
The wider problem our sectoris trying to solve
Sector: UK Higher Education
Save £100Ms from £23Bn UK HE turnover
~ 2% spent on servers and storage = £460M
Can we save 50% of £460M?
Industrial-scale savings
“… construction of extremely large-scale, commodity-computer data centres at low-cost locations… uncovered the factors of 5 to 7 decrease in cost of electricity, bandwidth, operations, software and hardware at these very large economies of scale.”
Armburst, Armando Fox et al.,Above the Clouds, Berkeley
Examples of industrial-scaleEuropean data centres
Owner Location Square feet
Amazon Dublin, Ireland 240,000
Google Hamina, Finland N/K
HP Winyard, UK 305,000
IBM Dublin, Ireland N/K
Microsoft Dublin, Ireland 303,000
Source: Greenpeace report ‘How dirty is your data?’, April 2011
Janet – our ‘national grid’ for hybrid cloud
Remote industrialdata centre 2
Remote industrialdata centre 1
University or College local clouds
“Hypovisor…
“… refers to containerisation at the bare-metal level, permitting a greater set of workloads on the same infrastructure, including High-Performance Computing.”
Term believed first to have been coined by Gartner Distinguished Analyst Andrew Butler in 2012.
Hybrid ‘hypovisor’ cloud-bursting via Janet:a world first (July 2011)?
Summary
Now we want to run our virtual servers and storage cheaper in the public cloud than locally
Evidence suggests this is possible
Utility provision to us from industrial-scale data centres is required
UK Higher Education may be able to lead this, on the back of the Janet network