Community Cloud Conversations
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The Cloud Computing Community Group provides participants with the opportunity to learn about and discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with the adoption of cloud computing in colleges and universities. Examples of discussion topics include cloud contract negotiation and management, cloud vendor relationship management, IT service management practices, compliance and legal issues, data privacy and security considerations, cloud identity and access management, cloud service integration (cloud to cloud and cloud to on-premise), skills and staffing implications, and cloud use cases to enable institutional agility, efficiency, and innovation. This group meets virtually every month, in person at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference and uses its list and Slack workspace to discuss issues throughout the year. The Cloud Computing Community Group and Internet2 have long partnered to cultivate the cloud computing conversation in higher education. Beginning with the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Joint Cloud Working Group, Internet2 has provided infrastructure and logistical support to the CCCG. Internet2 hosts the CCCG monthly calls and their meeting artifacts as well as the Higher Ed Cloud Wiki. Monthly meetings
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Cornell Cloud Forum (CF) | The Cloud Forum is an annual gathering hosted by the cloud crowd at Cornell University. Beginning in 2015 this event brought together the IT professionals who manage cloud computing at many of the top research institutions around the country. Attendance is limited to 90 people because we gather in a small auditorium on the Cornell campus. Thanks to the intimate setting and higher education IT’s history of sharing, the conversations are candid, productive and often quite entertaining. We share successes, failures and lessons. We challenge our peers with the problems we are facing in hopes of tapping the wisdom of the crowd. The event is for higher education, by higher education. We invite each of the main cloud computing vendors to send representatives, but they are not allowed to present or engage in the debate. They are there to listen and learn about higher ed’s cloud challenges. Naturally COVID-19 has turned everything on its head, including the Cloud Forum. We really wish we could welcome you in person to the Cornell campus. Who doesn’t want to visit Ithaca, NY in the winter? Instead, the 2020 Cloud Forum has been reformulated to take place in monthly segments throughout the school year. There is no cost to attend. Sessions are held on the second Friday of each month through May, at 9am PT/12pm ET, each running for 90 minutes. |
| Links to all session recordings and and assets from the 2020 Virtual Cloud Forum are listed below |
Internet2 Online Events (I2O) | Webinars, workshops, training sessions, and community gatherings all fit within our mission of supporting and expanding the community. I2 Online serves as the virtual gathering spot for programs that help members and colleagues share solutions and best practices. |
| View upcoming or suggest event topics |
Organic Community Topics (COMM) | Anytime a conversation is taking place that would benefit from the involvement of that organization's peers in the higher ed cloud community, we will try to share it here. That could be a request from a number of schools to have another school share what they are doing or one school might have invited a cloud provider in for a demonstration. Whatever the case, if it is information sharing and collaboration at its core (rather than sales) we welcome its inclusion here. |
Upcoming/Past Events
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7/28/21 | NET+ GCP Summer Camp: Running the Institution on Cloud Power | IT professionals are always looking for the best tools for the job. An ever-increasing number of those jobs can be done more efficiently or effectively with cloud tools. In the final NET+ GCP Summer Camp session of 2021 we will hear about a range of uses, from the operational, to the strategic, to the meta.
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7/21/21 | NET+ GCP Summer Camp: The Power to Change Lives | The uses of hyper-scale computing power are limited only to the imaginations of those leveraging it. Nowhere is this more evident than in the work of our researchers. This NET+ GCP Summer Camp session will showcase two very different but undeniably impactful research projects made possible with the hyper-scale compute power and tools of GCP. Join us to learn about:
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7/15/21 | NET+ Palo Alto Networks: Cloud-native security for workloads and SaaS applications | Another great community effort has led to the evaluation and release of a higher-ed negotiated service agreement for a toolset widely-popular across higher ed. In this case it's the NET+ Palo Alto Networks "Cloud-powered security for .edu" offering. Peek (or jump) into the ongoing series of NET+ Palo Alto Networks community town hall meetings in July to learn about their security tools. | I2O | |
6/23/21 | NET+ GCP Summer Camp: Teach the Cloud, Teach Using the Cloud | There are all kinds of reasons we strive to provide safe, powerful and easy-to-use cloud computing environments for our institutions. Few are more important or have broader impact than teaching and learning. Join the NET+ GCP Summer Camp session to hear three great stories of how GCP is being used in the classroom to teach:
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6/10/21 | NET+ CloudCheckr | Whether you are multi-cloud or focusing your efforts on one, support tooling for cost and security tracking are increasing helpful and increasingly important. CloudCheckr provides cost management, asset inventory, security & compliance monitoring, and resource utilization tracking across your multi-cloud environments, giving not only centralized visibility into your cloud at the enterprise level, but also putting tools in the hands of individual researchers, departments and developers. See CloudCheckr in action and hear what your peers who evaluated the service think about it. Details and registration. |
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6/2/21-6/4/21 | Higher-Ed DevOps Conference | On the afternoons (1-5 EDT) of June 2-4, the Higher-Ed DevOps Conference will be meeting to share training, best practices, and more. If you are faculty/staff of any InCommon institution, you are welcome to join us… for free! Check out the agenda and registration. | COMM | |
5/26/21 | New NET+ Services Introduced to Meet Higher Ed Community Needs | 20 schools collaborate with Internet2 to vet and release four new NET+ services to the community.
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5/26/21 | Higher Ed Case Studies of Power and Agility in the Public Cloud |
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5/14/20 | Unconference | Community-driven conversations on:
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4/28/21 | Open Discussion |
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4/9/21 | Trust and Security |
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3/24/21 | Using Cloud for Research at Scale
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3/12/21 | Google Team-selected Researcher + Community Presentation |
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3/5/21 | Jupyter on Google | We'll have Marc Cohen from Google leading us through the managed offerings from Google, plus folks from UMBC and NYU talking about their Jupyter Hub deployments on GCP, and Burwood talking about how partners can help with Jupyter. |
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2/24/21 | How Universities are Providing Self-Service Cloud Environments for Researchers | Internet2 hosted webinar to help Higher Education researchers leverage new self-service, managed, cloud-based solutions.
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2/24/21 | Open Discussion |
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1/27/21 | Cloud Challenges Facing Smaller Institutions | What are the different challenges that are faced by smaller institutions, how do strategic/operational motives differ, how are school designating their staff since they are already wearing so many different hats in many cases. How do we better connect with this community to make sure they are represented in our community? | ||
1/8/21 | Cloud Strategy |
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12/11/20 | Microsoft Team-selected Researcher + Community Presentation |
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12/2/20 | Open Discussion | Discussion around Re-Invent and recent Cloud Forum sessions. Updates on what is happening on campuses around COVID recovery and cloud use to support those efforts. Discussion on cost management and remote training. (No recording this month) | CCCG | |
11/13/20 | Research Support |
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10/28/20 | Strategies for Controlling Costs in the Cloud | Teams from Harvard and University of Michigan will talk about ways to save money on cloud computing and their approaches to helping their campuses realize those savings. |
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10/9/20 | Cloud Community Governance |
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9/23/20 | Open Discussion | Lots of community announcements. A pitch for people to join the DevSecOps conversation. Brief mention of the FinOps discussion. What role is cloud playing in back to school and COVID-related work, including storage of testing/tracing data. Short rant about Box security. Discussion of how schools are taking requests for cloud accounts and how they keep track of inventory and what people are doing in their accounts. Lessons and resources shared. | ||
9/11/20 | Cloud Enablement Success Stories |
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8/26/20 | From Zero To Secure Research Hero In Four Weeks! | University of Pittsburgh IT was approached by one of its leading researchers with a challenge: provide for a secure environment in which research could be conducted on a controlled HIPAA dataset. Oh, by the way, enable access from the internet AND allow people only take specific pieces of data out of the environment AND we need it in a month. | Brian Pasquini, Enterprise Architect - University of Pittsburgh | |
8/5/20 | Q&A with IU Box Migration team | As a number of schools review their storage and collaboration strategies, Indiana University can provide insights from its experience. Indiana University was the first high-profile higher education customer to announce it was moving to Microsoft and Google and away from Box. IU’s early start resulted in many schools looking to learn from their research, successes and failures. IU has received several inquiries from other higher ed schools and is offering to discuss its experience and considerations. As a result, the IU Box migration team put on an infoshare in June covering their process, communications, technical decisions and lessons. The recording of that infoshare, as well as slides and detailed communication plan, can be found at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zZ5YnND9tO-MFreZxsMU4bdq9D6aBw5S?usp=sharing. It’s one thing to listen to the story, it’s another to chat with the story tellers. In the wake of the infoshare the calls for meetings with the migration team have continued to come. In order to allow this hardworking team to focus on their hard work, we have arranged a dedicated Q&A session for any and all to bring their questions about tools and timing, dependencies and decisions, method and messaging, and so much more. NOTE: We learned our lesson last time and we have a larger-capacity Zoom roof for this call. |
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7/23/20 | Higher Ed Cloud Networking & Security Workshop - Workshop Capstone: Peer Architectures | Presentations from three peer institutions, each presenting their architectures and best practices on one of the three platforms. Panel discussion, Q & A, Workshop wrap |
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7/22/20 | Open Topic Discussion with a twist | Many in the community are taking part in the Higher Ed Cloud Networking & Security Workshop series. At the start of that series, attendees brainstormed a number of questions for the cloud vendors. Among those questions were many that were better suited as a discussion between members of the community. July would normally be an open topic discussion. We are keeping with that in spirit, but we are going to seed the conversation with a selection of questions from the list. | ||
7/9/20 | Higher Ed Cloud Networking & Security Workshop - Google Responses to Workshop Attendee Questions & Challenges | This session of the Cloud Networking and Security workshops features Google's team answering the questions and challenges compiled by community participants during the May 28 session. | ||
7/7/20 | Higher Ed Cloud Networking & Security Workshop - GCP Security and Networking Training | This session of the Cloud Networking and Security workshops features Google's overview of GCP security and networking tools and best practices. | ||
6/25/20 | Higher Ed Cloud Networking & Security Workshop - Amazon Responses to Workshop Attendee Questions & Challenges | This session of the Cloud Networking and Security workshops features Amazon's team answering the questions and challenges compiled by community participants during the May 28 session. | ||
6/24/20 | Indiana University Box Migration Infoshare | Switching cloud storage platforms can be challenging, especially when petabytes of data are involved. Indiana University has begun the process of switching from Box to Microsoft and Google for end-user cloud storage and is looking to share its experience and learn from the community. Topics will include IU’s motivations for a move, selecting a migration vendor, when to leave the legacy storage up or take it down during a migration, how to handle loss of features when changing platforms, what communications challenges universities will face, and how COVID19 complicates a storage migration. | ||
6/23/20 | Higher Ed Cloud Networking & Security Workshop - AWS Security and Networking Training | This session of the Cloud Networking and Security workshops features Amazon's overview of AWS security and networking tools and best practices. | ||
6/11/20 | Higher Ed Cloud Networking & Security Workshop - Microsoft Responses to Workshop Attendee Questions & Challenges | This session of the Cloud Networking and Security workshops features Microsoft's team answering the questions and challenges compiled by community participants during the May 28 session. | ||
6/9/20 | Higher Ed Cloud Networking & Security Workshop - Azure Security and Networking Training | This session of the Cloud Networking and Security workshops features Microsoft's overview of Azure security and networking tools and best practices. | ||
5/28/20 | Higher Ed Cloud Networking & Security Workshop - Capturing the Questions, Listing the Challenges | Structured discussions to articulate the challenges faced by IT Pros when configuring, securing and managing enterprise cloud environments trying to meet the diverse demands of a higher education institution. | ||
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4/23/20 | Google Anthos presentation to Stanford cloud team | |||
4/22/20 | UNCG Cloud Cyberinfrastructure Innovation Lab | UNC Greensboro is exploring an idea to help catalyze adoption of cloud infrastructure for research and in the classroom across the entire university by creating a Cloud Cyberinfrastructure Innovation Lab. The lab is focused on institutional adoption of cloud infrastructure - something that can be challenging for a R2 and traditionally liberal arts institution. |
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4/8/20 | The Role of Cloud Computing in Higher Ed’s COVID-19 Response (Part 2) | |||
3/25/20 | The Role of Cloud Computing in Higher Ed’s COVID-19 Response (Part 1) | We had over 100 people on the call. The conversation was great. Many schools shared their experiences of transitioning to online teaching, WFH and general community support and several provided helpful resources. | ||
2/26/20 | Open Topic Discussion |
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1/22/20 | Data-driven Cloud Planning |
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Special thanks for the presentation materials icon by Krish from the Noun Project
- 2019
- December 16 (combined Nov/Dec event) - Fall Cloud Conference Round-Up
- October 23 - Federated Access to Research Data
Dr. Craig A. Lee, Chair, NIST Public Working Group on Federated Cloud (lee@aero.org)
Khalil Yazdi, Chair, Open Research Cloud Alliance (khalilyazdi@outlook.com)
- Slides, notes and recording
- EDUCAUSE 2019 Face to Face meeting (Chicago, October 16, 2019)
- September 25 - Open Discussion
- Early survey results
- EDUCAUSE F2F
- CCCG Leadership transition
- August 28 - Supporting Research in the Cloud - Round 1: The Human Bridge
- July 24 - Open Discussion
- June 26 - Cloud Community Events and Activity
- Recap of Cloud Networking Workshop put on by U Michigan, U Minnesota and Internet2 (Alok Vimawala - UMich)
- Update on Cornell Cloud Forum 2019 (Sarah Christen - Cornell)
- CCCG Engagement Channels (Bob Flynn - IU)
- CCCG Engagement Team (Jody Couch - UCSC)
- (recording and slides)
- May 22 - Open Discussion
- Announcements
- Cloud Forum dates: November 6-8, 2019
- Reminder: CFP for 2019 Cornell Cloud Forum closes June 1 https://bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bCyJsiOkPsm3tAh
- #cloud_jobs channel added to CCCG Slack Team - post your cloud jobs there!
- Firewalling in AWS: Paul Peterson from Emory talked about networking strategies for their non-research AWS environment. (slides)
- Announcements
- April 24 - Google Cloud Platform
- Evolution of GCP at an Office 365 University – presentation by John Bailey, WUSTL
- With Great Integration Comes Great Responsibility (a.k.a. GCP at a G Suite School) – presentation by Bob Flynn, IU
- Google CAB GCP Track
- News from Google Cloud Next
- Tech bulletin: Don't fear the mystery folder. Unexpected visitor due to Google change https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/cloud-platform-projects. - Ananya Ravipati, IU
- IU GCP configuration document https://iu.box.com/s/5h6zj9l5dawie8crigc8m1v647kksw20
- Internet2 NET+ GCP contract - Sara Jeanes, Internet2
- (notes | slides & recording)
- Mar 27 - Open Discussion
- Feb 27 - Open Discussion (notes)
- Jan 23 - Cloud Q & A for Small Schools (recording and resources)
- 2018
- Dec 5 - Excerpts from the 2018 Cornell Cloud Forum (recording and resources)
Title: Ouch! Commonly Overlooked (or Surprising) Cloud Costs
Description: “Wait … that costs how much?” How do you prepare stakeholders for cloud-related charges that were provided ‘for free’ while on-premise? What new charges exist in the Cloud? What are the associated costs? Most importantly, who is going to pay them?
Presenters: Kari Robertson and Glenn Blackler - UC Santa CruzTitle: Using AWS CLI with Shibboleth and Duo https://github.com/techservicesillinois/awscli-login
Description: How can higher education give our faculty and staff convenient access to AWS tools without leaving behind a mess of long-lived secret keys? We’ll demonstrate a University of Illinois plugin to the AWS CLI which authenticates against Shibboleth with Duo and manages short-lived credentials, making it easy to be secure.
Presenter: Chris Kuehn - University of IllinoisTitle: Kubernetes: Container Orchestration at Scale
Description: Kubernetes is a resource scheduler that started as a Google project. Now it is the primary container scheduler being adopted across the spectrum of both cloud and on-prem based deployments. With an extensible scale-first architecture it’s easy to see why its adoption has outpaced other solutions such as Docker Swarm and Mesos. The goal is to present on the architecture of Kubernetes and basics of running Kubernetes at scale.
Presenter: Jeff Sica - University of Michigan
Resources: “Introduction to Kubernetes” open-source eight-hour 100-level labs: https://goo.gl/uHq6T4 and presentation: https://goo.gl/Yb6HfrTime Permitting: AWS re:Invent recap
- Nov 1 - Open discussion at in-person meeting at EDUCAUSE Annual Meeting
- Oct 24 - Open discussion (see notes)
- Sep 26 - Funding models for new cloud paradigms (speakers: David Seidl- Notre Dame, Ben Rota - Harvard)
- Aug 22 - Notre Dame and the Cloud - Over the past three years, Notre Dame University has moved more than 80% of their IT infrastructure and services to Amazon Web Services (AWS). On this month's Higher Education Cloud Collaboration conference call, leaders from Notre Dame University will provide an overview of their move to AWS, and will share their lessons learned and advice for other institutions.
- Limit of recorded history
- Dec 5 - Excerpts from the 2018 Cornell Cloud Forum (recording and resources)