"Virtualisation and public/private

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• "Virtualisation and public/private cloud
  computing - supporting agility and services for
  Statistical Institutions".

Tony Marion Infrastructure Architect, ABS for
Meeting on the Management of Statistical
Information Systems, Korea, April 2010
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Presentation Outline

1. Drivers for change
2. Brief history of Virtualisation in the ABS
3. What does the ABS Cloud look like
4. Aspirations for the future
5. Some tips when building an internal Cloud

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Drivers for change
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Why change our ICT Infrastructure?

• Increasing expectations of data respondents,
  information consumers and suppliers for
  electronic interaction
• Government expectation of further efficiencies
• Maintaining data quality with shrinking budgets
• Evolving the statistics for important areas of
  government decision-making
• Greater demand for system-to-system services
  through the web
• Using existing data for new statistics
• Creating hybrid subject-matter outputs (eg
  socio-economic, enviro-economic)?
• Replacing purpose-built data collection with more
  administrative data
• Systematising statistical business process
  knowledge
• Incorporating components developed by others (eg
  geospatial software)?
• Data linking

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Growing Gap
What the ABS business needs vs. What ITcan
deliver
Business Needs
IT Capacity
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Where we wanted to be Virtual Environment
Where we were Server Sprawl
Hard to manage, low utilisation, inflexible
Dynamic, computing resource for clients
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Brief history of Virtualisation in the ABS
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What does the ABS Cloud look like
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SOSSWe just did it
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VDI
Oracle/SAS
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Aspirations for the future
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Future Projects
No Major Technology Updates

• Infrastructure_at_ABS
• Desktop_at_ABS
• Security_at_ABS
• Access_at_ABS
• Servers_at_ABS
• Web_at_ABS
• Vdesktop_at_ABS
• Vappliance_at_ABS

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Application Efficiencies

• Pre-installed, Pre-configured software stack
• Software-as-a-Service Hides complexity of
  installation and configuration
• Desktop, Infrastructure or SOA Application
• Gains Virtual Infrastructure Benefits

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Some tips when building an internal Cloud
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• Plan for success but some risk will be required
• Get other technical staff and clients onside
• Start Small and grow with experience
• Ensure staff are well trained
• Establish a good relationship with hardware and
  Software vendors
• Get your licensing right for the Virtual world
• Use appropriate Hardware
• Test applications and build virtual machines from
  scratch
• Monitor the environment and be prepared to change
  

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Thank you