Datacenter IaaS workshop 2014

Abstract: The presentation will demonstrate a survey of cloud services adoption in European NRENs, obtained through the questionnaire circulated among 23 NRENs. Based on these results, the presentation will cover a strategic approach to deployment of cloud computing and services which is driven by a business cases for the users community. A set of information and different aspects need to be analyzed to setup strategic objectives which are desirable, feasible and achievable, and therefor which are worth investing in.

## Introduction

CESNET, an association of legal entities established by universities

and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, is responsible for

operation and development of the National Research and Education

Network (NREN), National Grid Infrastructure (NGI) and active research

in the field of advanced network technologies and applications.

As a provider of scientific computing services for the Czech academic

community and a facilitator of international connections to European

Grid Infrastructure (EGI), CESNET has considerable experience with

virtualization-based solutions such as virtualization as a tool

for operation flexibility, on-demand virtual cluster services for

scientific computing or HPC cloud.

The national Center CERIT-SC (CERIT Scientific Cloud) offers storage

and computing resources and related services, including support for

their experimental use. The Center also participates in research and

development related to flexible e-Infrastructures and it also

collaborates in research activities of its partners.

The CERIT-SC Center was created through a transformation of the Supercomputing

Center Brno (SCB), a part of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS)

at Masaryk University (MU).

 Increasingly, data is stored in seemingly private containments in public

 locations. This poses challenges due to the differences between perceived

 and actual safety of the data. Safety here refers to security, privacy,

 reliability and availability. The talk will present two software prototypes

 for file storage and simple relational databases which can be used in

 multi-user environments to offer non-expert users a safe environment for

 their data across multiple locations.

VSB-Technical University of Ostrava has its own datacenter which runs on some modern technologies - converged 10GE, smart disc storages, virtualisation.

The first part of presentation describes technical infrastructure of datacenter - networking, servers, storages and virtualisation.

The DC's services are offered mainly to university users. Other institutions (universities, high schools, etc.) can connect their networks to datacenter and run their own servers or virtual machines in our datacenter.

The second part of presentation describes offered services, network connections between datacenter and institution's network, practical experiences and future plans.

Use of hardware acceleration for high-density network traffic monitoring will be presented during the talk with a special focus on efficiency, footprint reduction and acceleration of open source network monitoring tools. All these concepts provide significant cost reduction compared to commercial solution while they can be easily combined and integrated.