Government Cloud Deployment: Lessons

LearnedPresented to Bahrain International eGovernment Forum 2013

Kevin L. JacksonVice President and General Manager, NJVC Cloud

ServicesApril 10, 2013

Not a new technology, but a new approach in the provisioning and consumption of information technology (IT)

Time Reduce time to deliver/execute mission Increased responsiveness/flexibility/availability

Cost Optimizing cost to deliver/execute mission Optimizing cost of ownership (lifecycle cost) Increased efficiencies in capital/operational expenditures

Quality Environmental improvements Experiential improvements

Cloud Computing

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U.S. Federal Agency Challenge What?

Focus on mission, not technology

U.S. departments/agencies will use multiple clouds

Why? Normalized comparison

of cloud services provider offerings

Holistic view for managing and monitoring cloud services providers

Benefits? Avoidance of vendor lock

in Realization of both

economic and operational value of cloud computing

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• 20-30 Percent IT Infrastructure Cost Savings

• Increased Agility from Months to Days• Improved Asset Utilization• Multiple Choice of IaaS, PaaS and

DevOps• Choice of Managed Services• Transparency and Control

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U.S. State of Texas Cloud Computing Project

U.S. Federal Government Recovery Act and Transparency Board Established in February 2009 Created recovery operations center, which used

advanced analytics to detect early warning signs of trouble linked to recipients of recovery funds

Two-month planning period to develop and design IT platform

Two-week implementation period to create its own cloud hub, where the agency could act as its own cloud broker (Amazon, Microsoft 365 government community cloud, private cloud hosted in GGI IaaS)

Minimal impact on agency customers After successful accomplishment of mission, Board

was extended until September 2015 to monitor the $60.2 billion aid plan for victims of Hurricane Sandy

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Why Cloud Services Brokerage

Without a CSB With a CSB

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Commerce Broker Catalog and Pricing Engine

Sourcing and Procurement Engine

Solution Design and SimulationCloud Services Broker

CIO and CFO Command and Control

External Service Provisioning Engine

IT Infrastructure Strategic Fit AnalysisIT ArchitectsCIO/CFO

Systems IntegratorSourcing/ProcurementManagers

PublicIaas

Paas

Public Providers

VMWARE

Cloud Foundry GreenPlum

AWS, TerreMark,Savvis

vblock

VMWARE

Cloud AutomationHybrid Cloud Management

Self-Service CatalogITSM Service Request Catalog

OpenStack

Enterprise

Typical Enterprise Platform

Workflow Mgmt.

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Cloud computing changes both the economics and operations of the IT model

Governments should consider cloud services brokerage to avoid vendor lock in when transitioning to the cloud

U.S. national and regional governments have successfully used the cloud services brokerage model

Cloud services brokerage is a natural strategic extension for large and complex IT platforms

Summary

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Questions and Answers

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Thank You

Kevin L. JacksonVice President & General Manager NJVC Cloud Services001.703.429.9073kevin.jackson@njvc.com

www.njvc.comgovcloud.ulitzer.com

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