D2 3 Computing e-Infrastructure cost calculations and business _models_vam1-final

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e-‐FISCAL: www.efiscal.eu EC Contract Number: 283449 Figure 10: Federated Infrastructure Bursting The second scenario is a direct usage of an external broker from an academic user (Figure 11). This may happen if the external broker offers extra capability that the public funded infrastructure broker is not able to offer. Single service providers in the public funded sector could integrate directly with the commercial broker so that an academic user could reach both public-‐funded and commercial cloud providers. Figure 11: Integration with External Broker e-‐FISCAL : Financial Study for Sustainable Computing e-‐Infrastructures Deliverable D2.3 – Computing e-‐Infrastructures cost estimation and analysis – Pricing and Business models 64
e-‐FISCAL: www.efiscal.eu EC Contract Number: 283449 The third and last scenario is the single provider bursting (Figure 12) that is the scenario where a public funded organisation providing ICT services to researchers aims to offer extra capacity that is not able to timely procure in house, thus integrating with an external provider to transparently move users’ workload to there. Figure 12: Single Provider Bursting These integration scenarios are only possible if users own budgets to buy cloud services or if they are offered credits to use them. Usually, they access ICT services that are free at point of delivery, therefore the provision of commercial services need to be properly analysed also in terms of funding streams. Some questions remain open for the policy makers: how to reconcile the budget planning cycle for research computing to the pay-‐as-‐you go or subscription pricing models of cloud? What happens to the stored data if a budget is not renewed or is approved late? Who should own the budget? (e.g., research group, institution). There are many aspects that need to be considered also in the area of contracts and SLA’s to make sure that the integration with commercial providers will create value for the academic users. The last part of e-‐FISCAL questionnaire contained questions regarding cloud computing, Green IT aspects and sustainability considerations. The time horizon of these questions tried to balance recent past actions (i.e. actions that have been realized in 2011) and future prospects. As for cloud computing, the most frequently used cloud computing service is Software as a Service (SaaS), followed by Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). However the prospects for the future are in favour of a more intensive, compared to 2011, cloud computing services usage. Nevertheless, most respondents are more prone to use (free of charge) cloud computing services compared to those expressing their intention to buy such services. Finally the idea of imposing usage fees is not out of the question for several respondents that have included such provision in both the short and long term planning. A detailed analysis of the responses is found in Appendix 7.4. e-‐FISCAL : Financial Study for Sustainable Computing e-‐Infrastructures Deliverable D2.3 – Computing e-‐Infrastructures cost estimation and analysis – Pricing and Business models 65
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