September 2010

*Provide analysis, advice, and recommendations on the impacts that new and emerging technologies are likely to have on the management and use of federal geospatial data and programs.  Provide a forecast of likely technology changes and their impact on Federal programs.  

*On-demand service: what you need when you need it.

*Broad network access: access is anywhere, anytime.

*Resource pooling: pool of users shares location-independent resources and costs in an environmentally sustainable way.

*Flexible resource allocation: as demands fluctuate, cloud services can scale rapidly.

*Measured service: usage is metered—often per user or per hour, pay only for what you use. Service levels are contractually defined.

*Software as a Service (SaaS)* End user apps delivered as service* Example: Saleforce.com for CRM

*Platform as a Service (PaaS)* Application platform middleware for

developers to deploy custom apps* Example: Windows Azure Platform

*Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)* Hardware and technology for

computing power, storage, operating systems available for customer apps

* Example: Amazon EC2, Amazon S3

Allocated IT-

capacities

“Waste“ of capacities

“Under-supply“ of capacities

Fixed cost of IT-capacities

Barrier forinnovations

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Actual Load

Allocated IT capacities

Reduction of initial

investments

Reduction of “over-supply“

No “under-supply“

Possible reduction of IT-capacities

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*New technologies and architectures challenge status quo*Customers require:*New business

models = pricing*SLAs =

performance*Flexibility

*Data Ownership, Security and Privacy

*Service Level Agreements, Liability and Recourse

*Lack of Control over Impact on Business Process

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Secure CloudFederation

INTERNAL IT ENTERPRISE

*Cloud computing business & practices are work in progress

*No industry standard for cloud providers

*Many believe Congress needs to take legislative action to update older security and privacy laws

*eSpatial*ESRI*Google*Microsoft Corporation*Salesforce.com*Terremark*VMWare