Hybrid cloud advantage to research outcome
Dean Taylor1, Thomas Close, Ryan Sulivan1, Fang Xu1 1The University of Sydney New South Wales, Australia
Abstract
The issue as to how to provide a dynamic and valuable service to researchers and provide a platform allowing ethics and policy makers, security specialists, infrastructure teams and many other subject matter experts to work together is not an easy solve.
At the University of Sydney Research Team has adopted Hybrid cloud to assist in this endeavour. At its core the premise is to absorb as much of the complexity within an infrastructural abstraction layer. This provides the advantage that:
Much of the complexities can be efficiently managed at scale with clear delineation between subject matter experts.
As this is a service-oriented model many traditional concerns in the development can be offloaded to the abstraction layer simplifying and shortening delivery times.
Standardised layers allow a more consistent experience reducing overhead and complexity.
Security and compliance can be applied in a manner that, in many situations, is oblivious to the application and/or user.
Localised concerns can be managed allowing flexibility with minimal impact to common process.
In this talk we will be highlighting the main components currently utilised with the Research Technology team at the University of Sydney and outline several exemplars distinguishing pros, cons, pain points and future roadmaps.
With the utilisation of the Hybrid cloud paradigm there has been an observable reduction in overheads, including but not limited to, long term support, project design and strategy, formalised processes, and compliancy. The result being a faster, simplified, dynamic resource chain helping to maximise research outcomes.
Biography
Dean Taylor, Senior DevOps Engineer Research Technology at the University of Sydney. Responsible for the development of research infrastructure.
Dr Ryan Sullivan is Product Manager for Research Platforms at the University of Sydney and Head of the Australian Imaging Service and. He oversees the creation of cutting edge, enterprise grade, research data management, analysis, and informatics software infrastructure.
Fang Xu is the senior devops in CloudOps team at the University of Sydney. He is current lead of the AIS deployment team.