Re: [public-sector-cloud-discuss] FW: Public Cloud Requirement

["Neil McEvoy" <neil.mcevoy@l5consulting.net>]

Hi Johns

There's a couple of points to answer this. First and simplest yes there
are vendors who do exactly that, they encapsulate your app into a virtual
container so that you can migrate it to X Cloud provider. I can make some
intros if you like.

There are standards and common technologies relevant to this abstraction
process, in particular JClouds: http://www.jclouds.org/. This is used by
the Cloud Service Brokers to facilitate portability across the marketplace
providers for example.

With regards to achieving active-active app replication across multiple
data centres as a result of this process, that's a bit trickier but again
there are emerging vendors catering for this.

We actually just published a paper on this specific topic, focusing on the
Canadian imperative to address the downtime risks of their legacy estate
that their Auditor General recently identified, see "Always On Digital
Government":

http://cloudbestpractices.net/2012/08/13/always-on-paper/

Kind regards, Neil.



> Please see the note from John Wailing below.  Does anyone have any views
> or
> experience of the requirement that he has set out?  Is it something we
> could
> include within the scope of the new TC?  I'm not suggesting that the TC
> would come up with the technical answer to this problem but more that it's
> yet another requirement to add to the list that we are looking to produce.
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wailing John (OCIO) [mailto:John.Wailing3@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk]
> Sent: 23 August 2012 13:35
> To: Dee Schur
> Cc: 'Jane Harnad'; 'Pim van der Eijk'; Ian Osborne; McDonagh Denise; John
> Borras; Hartley Dominic
> Subject: RE: Invitation to speak at International Cloud Symposium
>
> Thanks for the thought. I also find that it will be impossible to attend.
> However, having spoken to John B, I increasingly see a need for someone
> (you) to get a grip on 'Cloud' standards/models.
>
> We seek the convenience, agility and economy of commoditising the
> development and hosting of our big (line of business, transactional,
> inherently reliable) systems. The trick seems to be to create the
> application to run in some abstracted hosting environment (a container of
> some description?) so that it can be hosted anywhere (probably in at least
> two places running active-active with load sharing). At the moment testing
> typically requires the developer to have at least one environment and the
> hosting service to have a least 2, pre-prod and prod. Some functional
> testing will always be needed but much of our testing is centred on how
> the
> application will perform in the production environment. Need to get away
> from this in times to come! I have glossed over rather a lot but you will
> get the drift!
>
>
> Regards
> John
> T: +44 (0) 20 7035 6683         M: +44 (0)780 3510072 Lorraine Tuitt can
> fix
> slots in my diary: 020 7035 3490
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Osborne [mailto:Ian.Osborne@Intellectuk.org]
> Sent: 17 August 2012 18:40
> To: Dee Schur; McDonagh Denise; Wailing John (OCIO)
> Cc: 'Jane Harnad'; 'Pim van der Eijk'
> Subject: RE: Invitation to speak at International Cloud Symposium
>
> Dee, Apologies, I am unable to participate in this event owing to a prior
> commitment. Ian
>
> Ian Osborne
> ian.osborne@intellectuk.org
> M:+44 7793 258219
> ________________________________________
> From: Dee Schur [dee.schur@oasis-open.org]
> Sent: 17 August 2012 18:08
> To: 'McDonagh Denise'; Home Office, John Wailing; Ian Osborne
> Cc: 'Jane Harnad'; 'Pim van der Eijk'; 'Dee Schur'
> Subject: RE: Invitation to speak at International Cloud Symposium
>
> Hi Denise, John and Ian,
> Do you have an update on your availability to speak at the International
> Cloud Symposium? Please scroll down and have a peek at all the policy
> makers
> that have already registered to attend,
> http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4009281870?ref=ebtnebregn
>
> Please let me know if I can answer any questions -- I look forward to your
> reply.
> Regards,
> dee
>
> Dee Schur
> Senior Manager - Standards Advocate
> OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
> http://www.oasis-open.org
> +1.781.425.5073 x211
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dee Schur [mailto:dee.schur@oasis-open.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 5:23 PM
> To: 'McDonagh Denise'; 'john.wailing3@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk'
> Cc: 'Jane Harnad'; 'Pim van der Eijk'; 'Ian.Osborne@intellectuk.org'
> Subject: Invitation to speak at International Cloud Symposium
>
> Hi Denise and John,
> We are featuring a session at the International Cloud Symposium (ICS),
> https://www.oasis-open.org/events/cloud/2012, focused on Digital
> Government
> to include discussions on G-Cloud and Cloud First activities.
> We would be grateful if either of you would consider presenting on the
> G-Cloud topic during the first session, 10 October 2012, but we do have
> flexibility if 11 October would suit you better. If this does not work for
> either of you, please feel free to recommend a colleague. To get an idea
> of
> the type of program we coordinate, please have a peek at last year's ICS
> website held in the London area,
> http://events.oasis-open.org/home/cloud/2011
> If you have any questions or would like more information, feel free to
> contact me or Jane Harnad. I am looking forward to your reply.
> Best regards,
> dee
>
>
> Dee Schur
> Senior Manager - Standards Advocate
> OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
> http://www.oasis-open.org
> +1.781.425.5073 x211
>
>
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Neil McEvoy
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