AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
Enterprise Cloud Adoption Strategies in Higher Education
Lige Hensley, CTO - Ivy Tech Community College
Robert Carozzoni Lead Enterprise Cloud Strategist, Cornell University
Sarah Christen, Cloudification Services, Cornell University
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AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
Redshift, Big Data and Predictive Modeling
Lige Hensley, CTO - Ivy Tech Community College
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
Who we are• 866,000 active users• Students around the globe• 138 buildings• 24,000 PCs• 2,000 wireless access points• Over 100,000 network nodes• 3,000 tablet devices• 2,600 routers & switches• 60,000 course sections a year• 23,000,000 emails daily• 24/7/365 operations
• 10TB data downloaded from Internet daily• 10,000 smart phones supported• 700 TB of server data• 7,000 VOIP phones• 1,100 servers• 1,200 software applications• Generate over 100,000,000 rows of data
per day• IT staff of 165
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
Our challenge…• Existing reporting environment inadequate
for our size • Business need to better understand our
data• Improve student success rates• Very limited budget
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
What we wanted• Flexibility to handle our myriad of data
sources and business needs• Scalability to meet our growing demands• Performance to match our need for quick
answers to data questions
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
What we found• Worked with various “big data” vendors to
find an affordable solution• All “solutions” started at 7-figures and went
up• Nothing we found met our requirements
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What we did• Adopted Redshift & Pentaho as our solution• Data feeds from numerous internal
systems, in near real-time in some cases• Keep all transactions, not just snapshots• Allow connections from other tools such as
Tableau, SPSS and Mathematica
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What we can do now• Deliver data to users quickly, timely and on
any device• Analyze data between transactions• Run machine learning tools against our
data for predictive modeling and reporting
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
How it helps• Using historical data and pattern recognition
identify students who need assistance far earlier than ever before
• Analysis can be run as early as 2 weeks into term and maintain accuracy
• Accuracy of prediction models have ranged from 62% two years ago to 81% currently
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Other benefits• Allows for quicker identification of
fraudulent registrations• Dramatically cheaper than the alternatives• Pattern analysis identifies poorly designed
course materials
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
Cornell University
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
Our Journey To The Cloud
Bob CarozzoniEnterprise Cloud Strategist
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
Which of these are officially part of Cornell’s mission statement?
❏Research❏Education❏Outreach❏Information
TechnologyX
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IT STRATEGY Rebalance IT spend:● less non-mission aligned● more directly mission aligned
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Cloud as Opportunity!
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Cloud Risks!
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
Cornell Cloud Advisory ServiceA competency center for cloud
adoption
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
FOUR YEARS OF AGGRESSIVE CLOUD ADOPTION
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Was it really that easy?
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Understanding the needs of key stakeholders
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IT Leadership in the “Post Enterprise World”?
CENTRAL IT
Administrative IT Staff
End-userBusiness
leads
CLOUD VENDOR
See: Educause Paper Tracy Schroeder
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
If no one follows,are we leading?
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
Slow central IT ...… means no central IT
Be on the train, or under it.
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If you can’t take risks...… end users will do it for you
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You need to be more flexiblethan your SaaS
provider
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Don’t fight redundancy anddon’t fight redundancy.
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• Partnering• Inspiring• Coaching• Brokering• Enabling
Lead in a new way...
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Resistance from within
google: “smarter every day backwards bike”
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PRINCIPLES FOR LEADING IN THE CLOUD ERA
1. #1 Strategy - be tactical2. See with your customer’s eyes3. Build relationships 4. Influence trumps control5. Small is the new big6. Question everything
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X
NEXT STEPS
?
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?Sarah to the
rescue!
Cloudification Service
NEXT STEPS
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Cloudification = Transformation
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015
What is cloudification?• Partnership with campus IT units• refactoring for most effective use of cloud technologies and
containerization vs lift and shift• Central IT must be the expert that campus wants to come to for help• Enable not enforce• Understanding that if IaaS isn’t better with us, campus will make the
move without us• Allow campus technologists to focus on unit differentiators central IT
can help with the utilities
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Feature Delivery trend
feature delivery
datacenter features cloud features
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Cost trend
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traditional infrastructure
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Immutable InfrastructureQuote by Michael
Bryzek, the CTO and co-founder of GILT
Group
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Build your system using building blocks or containers
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When you find a flaw or need to make a change
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Start over to completely build the system you need
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Resistance to change
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http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/cloud-strategy-higher-education-building-common-solution
https://www.educause.edu/members/robert-carozzoni
FURTHER READING
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