CERN Accelerating science

CERN Private Cloud Infrastructure Service

Description of Service Change: 

As presented at the IT User meeting (https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=246424), an Infrastructure-as-a-Service compute cloud for users will be provided in July.

Features include

  • Ask for a server through a web page
  • Get the server in 2 to 15 minutes
  • Use support operating systems such as Windows or Linux or user-defined images
  • Various #cores, disk space options
  • Amazon-like Infrastructure as a Service programmable through REST APIs.

The user guide is already available at http://information-technology.web.cern.ch/book/cern-private-cloud-user-guide.

For questions regarding the new service, please use the service portal at https://cern.service-now.com/service-portal/search.do?q=cloud+infrastructure

 

Service Element Affected: 
Specific Service detail: 
Cloud Infrastructure
Effective from: 
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 10:00
Posted by: 
IT-OIS
Unit responsible for resolution: 
IT Department