Marketplaces for cloud services

22 June 2016 Bob Jones, CERN

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.This work is co-funded by H2020 Grant Agreement 687614The content of this presentation is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the views expressed by the European Commission or its services.

The Helix Nebula Science Cloud public-private partnership

Supersites Exploitation Platform:

Infrastructure concept for science use

Universities Research CentersSMEs

networks

4 Maryline Lengert, ESA

The Helix Nebula Initiative

The preferred model for public research organisations is a hybrid cloud that combines in-house resources with public e-infrastructures and commercial cloud services

5

The Helix Nebula initiative has brought together research organisations, data providers, publicly funded e-infrastructures and European commercial cloud service providers to develop a hybrid cloud model with procurement and governance approaches suitable for the dynamic cloud market

In-house

Procurement challenges

What if I get

locked in? Are there relevant

standards I should be

looking into?

What

happens to

my data?

How do I get

a good deal?

What happens to

my IT staff?

How can I compare

contracts & SLAs?

What is

PCP?

What are

the others

doing?

How can I allocate

costs?

What

services do

I need?

1. Cloud computing is disrupting the way IT resources are provisioned

2. In-house resources, publicly funded e-infrastructure and commercial cloud services are not integrated to provide a seamless environment

3. Current organisational and financial models are not appropriate

4. The new way of procuring cloud services is also a matter of skills and education

5. Legal impediments exist

Provides a landscape of cloud procurement in the European public research sector

Makes pragmatic recommendations for the procurement of cloud services by PROs in Europe

Provides a guide to cloud procurement, supported by best practices adopted worldwide

Proposes actions within the pillar three of the Digital Single Market Strategy which focus on maximising the growth potential of the digital economy

The PICSE Roadmap

4/5/2016 11

www.picse.eu/roadmap

Digitally aware

legislation

Simpler public

procurement rules

A cloud procurement

agency for the research

sector in Europe

Digital Single

Market

Long-term harmonisation for the Digital Single Market

PICSE call to Action

4/5/2016 13

Does not need to be a new organisation

6/26/2016 9

Relevance of PICSE roadmap and call for action

HNSciCloud Pre-Commercial Procurement

6/26/2016 10

HNSciCloud Joint Pre-Commercial Procurement

Bob Jones, CERN 11

Procurers: CERN, CNRS, DESY, EMBL-EBI, ESRF,IFAE, INFN, KIT, SURFSara, STFC

Experts: Trust-IT & EGI.eu

The group of procurers have committed• >1.6M€ of procurement funds• Manpower for testing/evaluation• Use-cases with applications & data• In-house IT resources

To procure innovative IaaS level cloud services integrated into a hybrid cloud model• Commercial cloud services• European e-Infrastructures

Services will be made available to end-users from many research communities

Co-funded via H2020 Grant Agreement 687614

Total procurement budget >5M€

High Energy PhysicsLHC experiments

Belle II

COMPASS

AstronomyCTA – Cherenkov Telescope Array

MAGIC

Pierre Auger Observatory

Life SciencesELIXIR

Euro-BioImaging

Pan-Cancer

BBMRI

WeNMR

Photon/Neutron sciencePETRA III, European XFEL, 3DIX, OCEAN, OSIRIS

Long tail of science

Etc.

User groups to be supported

Focus is on IaaS level services

Bob Jones, CERN 13

HNSciCloudPCP

Source: CloudComputing for Govies, DLT Solutions, David Blankenhorn, Van Ristau and Caron Beesley

14

Information as a Service:

Science interfacing with private sector

Helix Nebula

Marketplace

Customer

Customer

Customer

€

€

€

€

• Lower upfront investment

• Fast access to EO and other geodata resources

• Disruptive technology

• Risk and profit sharing

Satellite data

(ESA/Copernicus)

Data

Content

Provider

(Research)

GEO-IT & App

Provider (SME)

Tools

Service Provider

(Industry)

Computing & IT

Customer

Information

• Sustainability

http://www.helix-nebula.eu/publications/deliverables/d72-synthesis-and-analysis-of-overall-business-models

NIH Cloud Credits Pilot: A Business Model to Support the Use of Cloud Computing for the Commons (2016-2018)

15

For this pilot, the initial iteration of the Commons will be tested using a federation of public and private computing clouds, with the choice of cloud provider being made by each individual investigator who can select the best value for her/his individual research needs

6/26/2016 16

George A. Komatsoulis, Ph.D.National Center for Biotechnology InformationNational Library of MedicineNational Institutes of HealthU.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Other marketplaces studied:UK Gov G-Cloud

Bob Jones, CERN17

March 2016: total sales volume surpassed 1Bn GBP with 21,000+ services from 2000+ suppliers

Advantages• Purchase off-the-shelf,

pay-as-you-go cloud solutions

• Framework is compliant, regulated, refreshed

• Transparency: catalogue shows supplier info, services, prices, T&Cs

• No - OJEU, ITT, RfP, RfT, etc.

6/26/2016 18

6/26/2016 19

6/26/2016 20

htt

ps:

//ec

.eu

rop

a.eu

/dig

ital

-sin

gle

-mar

ket/

en/n

ews/

euro

pea

n-c

lou

d-i

nit

iati

ve-u

nlo

ckin

g-p

ow

er-b

ig-d

ata-

op

en-s

cien

ce

6/26/2016 21

htt

ps:

//ec

.eu

rop

a.eu

/dig

ital

-sin

gle

-mar

ket/

en/n

ews/

euro

pea

n-c

lou

d-i

nit

iati

ve-u

nlo

ckin

g-p

ow

er-b

ig-d

ata-

op

en-s

cien

ce

Accelerating Science and Innovation