andy blumenthal talks about cloud computing
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“To Cloud Or Not To Cloud?”
Andy Blumenthal Chief Technology Officer, ATF
02.24.11
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Overview
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What is the Cloud?
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Essential Characteristics of Cloud (NIST)
On-demand self-service
Broad network access
Resource pooling
Rapid elasticity
Measured service
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A Continuum Of IT Services Provision In-House Outsourced Hosted Public Cloud
Tenancy Single Multi Service Provision Internal/Self External/Others Ownership of IT Customer Vendor (Subscription Model) Control High ✓ Medium Low Very Low Efficient/”Green” (Sharing)
Low Medium High Very High (Resource Pooling)✓
Speed to Set-up New Services
Slower Faster (Self-service, Standards,
Centralized C&A…)✓ Cost High Medium Low (pay as go) ✓ Flexible to Meet Demand Change
Low Medium High (On-Demand) ✓
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Cloud Computing Services
SaaS
(End-user Apps)
PaaS (Integrated Development
Environment)
IaaS (Server, Database, Storage)
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Adoption
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Adoption Driven By The White House
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Impact on Agencies
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Early Adoption
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Recent Government Milestones
March 2010 • Los Angeles (30,000 users) first U.S. city to announce move of email to Cloud
May 2010 • Recovery.Gov federal website implemented in the cloud.
October 2010 • NYC (30,000 users) announces moving email to cloud and Army (1.6 million users) announces moving email to DISA cloud
November 2010 • DOI (88,000 users) sued by Google over Microsoft cloud agreement
December 2010 • GSA (17,000 users) and USDA (120,000) first federal agencies to move email to Cloud
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ATF
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Our Mission
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Virtualization
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SaaS
Hosted for ATF 1. UFMS 2. NFC 3. HR Connect 4. Learn ATF 5. IdeaScale 6. CATS
Hosted by ATF 1. BATS 2. eTrace 3. NIBIN 4. GangNet
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Email & Collaboration
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IaaS
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Our IaaS Framework
User (Device) Experience
Services (desktop, laptop,
handheld)
Productivity Software as a
Service (email,
SharePoint, etc.)
Unified Communi-
cations (LAN, voice, VTC,
wireless)
Managed Print/MFD
(print, copy, fax)
Application Hosting
Unified Help Desk
Specialized Support
(special ops, engineering, etc.)
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Before Proceeding… Some Key Considerations
1. Network 2. Authentication 3. Customization 4. Interoperability 5. Deployment 6. Service Support 7. Change Management 8. Lock-in 9. Security
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Three Keys To Success
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Thank You!