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UW and the CloudTerry Gray, PhD

Assoc VP, Technology Strategy27 Aug 2010

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ABOUT UW $3.7 Billion/year enterprise: 3 campuses; 2 hospitals; 450K managed IDs Centers in China (Beijing), Spain (Leon), Italy (Rome) 50,000 regular students + 45,000 “P&CE” students/year 30,000 faculty & staff, including 6 Nobel Laureates, 15 MacArthur Fellows 270 distinct research centers #1 in federal research $$ to public universities --every year since 1974 A leader in number of student awards, scholarships, fellowships

– 136 Fulbright, 35 Rhodes, 7 Marshall, 4 Gates Cambridge, etc 9th in US for students studying abroad Research on all continents, including Antarctica... and in oceans, space

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CONTEXT: Research Universities

Mission: discovery & innovation

Means: extreme collaboration

– Globally, at scale

Culture: decentralized; diffuse authority

– Collections of many independent businesses

– A microcosm of “the Internet”

“Industry turns ideas into money; Universities turn money into ideas.” --Craig Hogan

http://liu.english.ucsb.edu/wiki1/im

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CLOUD COMPUTING @ UW

73K UW users

50% of students ALREADY forward their UW email!50% of students ALREADY forward their UW email!

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WHY THE CLOUD for UW? It's where our students have gone, fac/staff are going

Enables easier collaboration

Leverages market agility, advances

Allows better use of scarce IT resources; lower cost

→ IT Goal: any time / place / device access & collaboration→ Cloud computing supports this goal

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STRATEGIC PREMISES

Cloud computing is a big deal

UW should encourage it, modulo compliance obligations

Compliance risk is reduced via partner contracts

A single-vendor strategy will not work for UW

Integrating faculty/staff with students is essential

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COLLABORATION VISION

• Seamless & simple collaboration across multiple platforms & orgs

– Cal/Scheduling “just works”– Doc sharing invitations “just work”– User & resource discovery is easy

no matter where data is hosted.• Robust federation replaces

“Multiple Account Madness” Work products “for the ages”

the illusion of simplicity and coherence!

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COLLABORATION EXAMPLES

Physics prof conducting exams at multiple universities iSchool teaching for-credit classes at other universities Students living abroad; faculty on sabbatical Global health researchers in Africa + gov't health agencies Dentistry prof's longitudinal study w/practitioners in state Industry expert teaches class; needs collab space that

students and other industry experts can easily use Shared workspaces for consortia and VOs (e.g. CSG)

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PRINCIPLES

Maximize user choice via standards-based services Integrate via interoperability Disintermediate and automate Leverage high-scale / low-cost providers Embrace and adapt consumer technology Enable; don't block or mandate Pervasive is better than Perfect

– (e.g. IMAP vs. DeltaSync; CalDav vs. ActiveSync)

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THE PLAYING FIELD

MicrosoftLive@edu+ BPOS

GoogleApps

UWExchangeServers

UWSharePoint

Servers

UWIMAP & Web

Servers

Other cloudservices

The IT challenge: make collaboration work in this context!

Otheruniversities

NEW

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ISSUES

Risk management: regulatory compliance; eDiscovery Interoperability (especially calendaring) IAM integration (especially groups) User support expectations, philosophy Faculty concerns about privacy, intellectual property, etc Adoption rates: carrots vs. sticks Cloud provider business risks Success indicators

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DISCUSSION

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UW Academic and Research Excellence

Academic Return on Investment Award more bachelors degrees per student FTE than any other state 1st in US for alumni remaining in state where degree granted 3rd in US for graduate degrees granted Amongst the lowest in the nation for cost per degree as compared to peers 5th in the US for after-degree-salary levels as compared to the cost of degree (Smart Money 12/08)

International Rankings 16th in the world for academic and research excellence (Shanghai Jiao Tong) 4th in the world overall and 1st for public universities for scientific research citations (Science Watch) 6 Nobel Prize winners, 15 MacArthur Genius Awards

US Rankings 1st in public university research funding; #2, overall 2nd in federal funding for (international) area studies and foreign language programs 4th in number of faculty members (86) who are members of nationally recognized academies 1st in Primary Care in Medicine and Nursing Professional Programs Numerous academic programs in the top 20