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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!