Slides from Susan St. Marie's Ottawa Ruby talk on CANARIE's DAIR Program (September 2014).

1. CANARIE’s DAIR Cloud Program
www.canarie.ca
Why should you care?
It’s a Free Canadian cloud service for testing and development
Contact: susan.stmaurice@canarie.ca
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Why?
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To accelerate Canadian innovation through
research in both the public and private
sectors
To drive the adoption of transformative
technologies among our stakeholder
communities
To ensure Canada continues to develop a
vibrant knowledge economy that
benefits all Canadians

4. Building Tomorrow’s Digital Economy
Today
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DAIR Program
Free cloud services for 1 year
www.canarie.ca/en/dair-program/about

5. Digital Technology Megatrends
18x: size of mobile data traffic in 2013 vs global internet
traffic in 2000
81%: global mobile data traffic growth in 2013
500M: mobile devices added in 2013 alone
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Mobile
Devices
Big Data
2.5 Exabytes: volume of data created daily, doubling each month
44x: forecasted increase in data volume 2009-2020
1 week: time to process decoding of human genome today vs 10 years
initially
Social Media
100: hours of video uploaded to YouTube each minute
2: # of new Facebook users each second
93%: adoption of social media by marketers
30+ Petabytes: volume of user generated data stored, accessed & analyzed
by Facebook
Internet of
2008: year in which # of things connected to Internet surpassed
world population
Things 50B: forecasted # of things connected to the Internet by 2020
Source: Cisco Visual Networking Index, IBM, IDC, The Economist, Huffington Post, Wikibon, YouTube, Pew Research, Business Insider,
Global Web Index

6. What is Cloud Computing?
A network of remote servers on
the Internet to store, manage,
and process data…
…instead of on local
servers or personal
computers.
Much like our electricity grid
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7. What does Pizza have to do with Cloud?
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8. Pizza and Cloud Computing
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9. Who uses Cloud Computing?
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10. Why do SMEs/Entrepreneurs choose the
Cloud?
50% Flexibility
49% Hardware Cost Savings
46% Increased Efficiency
42% Space Savings
38% Easy & Available Updates
36% Energy Savings
34% Increased Productivity
32% Simplified Infrastructure
32% Scalability
25% Improved Interoperability
23% Reduced Integration
Issues
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Source: www.ukfast.co.uk/cloud-hosting
59% of SMEs reinvested cloud-generated
savings back into the
business.

11. Digital Accelerator for Innovation &
Research (DAIR)
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• Application development
accelerator provisioned on
the CANARIE network
• Powerful test-bed for
SMEs to develop, test, &
demonstrate new cloud
applications
• Funded access to cloud
computing, network &
storage infrastructure
(Infrastructure as a
Service)
A kick-start to new
cloud service offerings
Mobilizes new cloud ICT
businesses in Canada

12. DAIR submission page
www.canarie.ca/en/dair-program/about
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Click on “Apply to DAIR”
and then choose the
“Sign in or Register” tab
at the top right to create
an account and complete
the application.

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15. DAIR Fact Sheet @
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Digital Accelerator for
Innovat ion and Research
DAIR
DAIR provides ent repreneurs wi th f ree, high-per formance, made-in-Canada
cloud resources for product development , test ing and demonst rat ion.
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Why DAIR?
DAIR is a free resource with no hidden costs.
DAIR leverages exist ing investments made by the
Government of Canada in CANARIE and Canada’s high
performance telecommunicat ions infrastructure to
give Canadian ent repreneurs a compet it ive edge in the
global market .
DAIR users have at least a year to use the resource.
Most commercial cloud offerings incent users with a
shor t-term (one to three month) free trial period. For
many ent repreneurs, that ’s just not enough t ime.
DAIR is a made-in-Canada cloud. Your data stays
in Canada. Period.
DAIR makes the switch to a commercial cloud easy.
DAIR is powered by OpenStack, which enables simple
migrat ion to any commercial cloud when you are ready
to launch your product .
DAIR’s applicat ion process is easy and fast . Users
need to fill out a simple online applicat ion and within
a few days they are using DAIR.
What do you get?
DAIR gives entrepreneurs free self-serve access to 4 high
performance virtual servers. By comparison, a year of
using similar resources on commercial cloud provider
Amazon AWS would cost a minimum of $2,800 USD and
on Rackspace a minimum of $2,100 USD.
What do ent repreneurs
say about DAIR?
DAIR offers us a plat form where we
can experiment with different complex
system setups. It allows us to benchmark
both the efficiency of our spam filtering
rules and the performance of various
system components.
– Dr. David Poellhuber, COO, ZEROSPAM
The cloud enables us to scale far beyond the
capacity we would have available with a single
dedicated server. The replicat ion, fail-over and
sheer speed-up involved with having numerous
machines working for us is very helpful in
providing our services.
– Dr. Shahzad Khan, President, gnowit Inc.
Thanks for the DAIR service, it really does
help us young entrepreneurs prototype and
commercialize faster, giving us that slight edge
we need to dominate the global competition!
– Shaq Abid, Chief Visionary Officer,
Nubius Technologies
Submit an applicat ion TODAY!
at ir-dair.canarie.ca
45 O’Connor St ., Sui te 500, Ot tawa, ON K1P 1A4 | T 613.943.5454 | F 613.943.5443 | inf o@canar ie.ca
Comput e Uni t
+2.0 GHz virtual core 64 bit CPU
2GB ram
Combine more than 1 unit to create multi-core VMs
VM sizes are 1, 2, 4 and 8 cores
1 public IPv4 IP address, 1 internal IPv4 IP address
Extras, over and above free basic package:
Addit ional Compute Units are $100
Add at any t ime (no prorat ing)
Disk Uni t
High performance 20GB disk quota
Combine more than 1 unit to create larger
disk volumes
Extras, over and above free basic package:
Addit ional Disk Units are $10
Add at any t ime (no prorat ing)
What do you get
for FREE with DAIR?
Basic package includes:
Use of DAIR for at least 12 months
2 geographic regions:
Edmonton, Alberta
Sherbrooke, Quebec
Absolutely no charges including OS licensing,
disk I/O, and bandwidth costs
Complete control of your resources using the DAIR
dashboard web portal or through OpenStack APIs
4 Compute Units to create 1 to 4 virtual
machines (VMs or servers)
4 Disk Units to create up to 4 external disks
(volumes) with a quota of 80GB
Each VM provides 20GB root disk + 20GB ephemeral
200GB object storage (Swift / S3)
5 VM snapshots
Save your VM content . Re-launch VM or duplicate
Configurable firewall
Operat ing Systems:
Windows Server 2008 R2, Server 2012, Windows 7
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS
CentOS 6.0
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16. Contact
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Extra slides

18. DAIR Cloud College Program
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• 'Cloud sandbox’ for the AR
office to support skills
development within the
program
• Each SME engagement
project receives free DAIR
computing resources (4
virtual servers + storage)
• After completing AR project,
SME has up to a year on
DAIR Cloud - AR projects
seamlessly transition to SME
once completed

19. Leveraging transformative technologies in
support of private sector innovation
Students and staff gain experience with leading edge cloud
services technology
Support SME’s by delivering market relevant products and
services utilizing the latest technologies
Avoid expense required to build in-house infrastructure
Reduce project ramp up time to 2-3 days from several weeks
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