By: Jarek King ISM 158

What’s Cloud Computing??Cloud

computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like a public utility.

Virtualizes ResourcesSubscription Based

Whats the Forecast? Cloudy with a 100% Chance of Computing

Current Govt IT IssuesNot centralizedHigh Transaction

CostHigh Energy CostMore Data Centers =

Lower Cyber SecurityAllocating Resources

for one day data heavy events.

Vivek KundraFederal Chief Information Officer for USA“We need to focus not on building another data center and installing more servers. What we need them focused on is fundamentally re-engineering how these agencies operate, with the focus on the American people, not on infrastructure that you have to keep plowing capital into year after year after year.” 

IT Cloud Computing Based Solutions

Google Apps

Amazon Web Services EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud)

Windows Azure

Apps.gov by GSA(Private for government use only)

BenefitsDept of homeland security is

downsizing from twenty data centers to two in the next 3.5 years.

D.C. paid less than $500,000 for a Google Apps License for its employees compared to the alternative that would have cost

$ 4 Million.

Government Clouds provide extra security for protecting tax, social security or any other confidential information.

www.Apps.gov by GSA•www.apps.gov•Government Use only Cloud Computing Services•Vivek Kundra spearheaded and launched apps.gov in hopes that IT services would be easily deliverable to Government Agencies.•Vivek Kundra also wanted to encourage collaboration across all government agencies.

Cloud Computing for the GovPros ConsScalabilityEasy to ImplementService QualityFrees Up ResourcesLower Cost to maintain

system

Less Data Centers = Less Jobs

Agencies may become too dependent on the cloud.

Sources

Kundra, V. (2010, April 23). Q&A: Obama’s IT guy embraces the ‘cloud’. (R. Leuty, Interviewer) San Francisco Business Times

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/04/19/daily62.html?page=2

Public. (2007, November 18). Cloud Computing. Retrieved April 26, 2010, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

Public. (2008, November 24). Vivek Kundra. Retrieved April 26, 2010, from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Kundra