OpenStack Cloud: How UH-SKY have approached getting the best from the Cloud

Jan Ivar Beddari, Universitetet i Oslo og Paul Brook, Team Lead: Cloud & Big Data, Dell EMEA Tirsdag 8th September 2015

"Brevity is the soul of wit". - (William Shakespeare. Hamlet - Act II, Scene II) Only 47 slides

Save Ferris Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. (John Hughes- From Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986)

"The best way to predict your future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln/Peter Drucker – and more

What does IT do?

What does IT do? What is the role of IT today and tomorrow?

What does IT do? What is the role of IT today and tomorrow?

Where has IT come from?

What does IT do?

What is the role of IT today and tomorrow? Where has IT come from?

Therefore might it be going?

IT – Technology helped take us to the moon.

Mainframes were heavily used in the Apollo programme. IBM System/360 &

Model 75s

Over 3,500 IBM employees were involved.

Information Technology helps CERN study the basic constituents of matter and

provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature.

CERN Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG)

CERN's “farm” in Switzerland is approx. 11,000 servers

30 petabytes of data annually

The Grid links thousands of systems in over 140

35 countries. Over 8000 physicists.

Multiple copies of data. No single point of failure

Availability of expert support Distributed across the world, for funding

and sociological reasons.

A Connected World. Gartner estimate 4.8 Billion “consumer

things” connected to the internet this year

The Rise and Rise of “the App”

What does IT do? What is the role of IT tomorrow?

Connected is the key term

The world is getting more connected

People are getting more connected

“Things” getting more connected

Business is getting more connected

Now more than ever. Internal IT needs to be directly connected

to the needs of the business or organisation

How?

Ask your organisation: How do IT need to do and deliver things that help you to do and deliver things?

Sometimes the question is the hard part

Make money

Save money

This is not an obsession with money

It is a tool to connect IT with the business/organisation goals

Make $ Save $ Project A Migration B

New Thing C

Development D

Radical idea E

Same old thing F

Project U Migration V

New Thing W

Development X

Radical idea Y

Same old thing Z

Understand how IT can help achieve the goals of your business/organisation

Take time to connect IT with the business/organisation goals

Make $ Save $ Project A Migration B

New Thing C

Development D

Radical idea E

Same old thing F

Project U Migration V

New Thing W

Development X

Radical idea Y

Same old thing Z

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Take timeout to think and plan: Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. (John Hughes- From Ferris Bueller’s Day

Off 1986)

Save Ferris

Make $ Save $ Project A Migration B

New Thing C

Development D

Radical idea E

Same old thing F

Project U Migration V

New Thing W

Development X

Radical idea Y

Same old thing Z

When you help support your Business, your partners and your

customers to grow and thrive – there is a very good chance that you will

also grow and thrive

Lead in your connections. Questions like: how can we help you make

data/information the lifeblood of our organisation?

“The best way to predict your future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln/Peter Drucker –

and more

Make  data  the  

lifeblood  of  your  business

Data is information, use it well. Expand how you use information. Internal IT should

drive the Data conversation with Marketing, Production, with citizen engagement,

service improvement. All part of the organisation/business

Consultative connections about Organisational Data and Security

Embrace the Cloud. Use “Shadow IT” is users telling you want they want and how

they want it. Embrace the Cloud. | Paul Brook | LinkedIn

Empower users – they are your customers.

Talk with and consult with your vendors.

Make architecture decisions that empower the user and the organisation/business

At Dell we believe you should have choice

Choices you make now should add to the NEXT set of choices you make – Not lock you

into the same choice you made last time

Technology is a powerful tool

People and tools

A powerful thing

You have the power

Jan Ivar Beddari, Universitetet i Oslo og