Caffeine Break 2011-10-21

Mike Corn
Looming Cloud Services at the UofI

dropbox

• de-duplicatioin
• encrypt file, don’t encrypt metadata
• consumer grade

box.net

• enterprise product
• discounted when talked with Corn – $10/person/year
• Internet 2 website – net plus services
  • early adopters
  • about $1.8/person/year
  • includes internet2 extra storage
  • 200 TB and 100,000 users
  • investigating if unit wants more storage can buy in 10 TB chunks
  • replicating across data center – not counting against our 200 TB
  • plus backup
  • so really 600 TB is part of the deal
  • currently all data is in North America
  • FERPA agreement in place
  • HIPPA agreement is coming soon
  • Don’t sign up under UofI address if you want to play
  • getting enterprise service
  • there is an api
  • google integration is there
  • bad at group management
  • working on using external groups (like AD)
  • authentication – incommon – shibboleth
    • working to integrate the 3 campus shibboleth
  • figuring out who would use it – plan to all fac,stff, students
  • contractually limited to synching accounts
    • not sure who will get this
  • teams across the campus’s being formed
  • really aimed at a person, not at the unit or service accounts
  • deprovisioning has not been worked out yet
  • hoping to have agreements in place Jan
  • flood gates probably open in Apr
  • Central admin can impersonate a user in the event of death, sick, etc.
  • accessibility is a little weak and we are helping to fix that
  • can we get accounts to play with?

google accounts for fac/staff – no timeline yet

expecting an agreement with Amazon and Internet2