open source and the cloud: benefits to your agency’s it deployments

© 2011 Lockheed Martin Corporation, Market Connections, Inc., Eucalyptus Systems, Red Hat, Inc. and DLT Solutions. © 2011 Lockheed Martin Corporation, Market Connections, Inc., Eucalyptus Systems, Red Hat, Inc. and DLT Solutions.

Open Source and the Cloud:

Benefits to Your Agency’s

IT Deployments

May 11, 2011

Sponsored by:

Open Source and the Cloud: Benefits to Your Agency’s IT Deployments

© 2011 Lockheed Martin Corporation, Market Connections, Inc., Eucalyptus Systems, Red Hat, Inc. and DLT Solutions.

Moderator

Andrea White, Director of Events

Government Executive Media Group



Speakers

Melvin Greer, Lockheed Martin

Senior Fellow

Chief Strategist Cloud Computing

Cynthia Poole, Market Connections

Director

Research Services

Ken Rojas, USDA

Senior Project Manager

NRCS-Information Technology Center

Gunnar Hellekson, Red Hat

Chief Technology Strategist

US Public Sector Group



Cynthia Poole, Market Connections, Inc.

Director, Research Services

Poole has more than fifteen years of experience in research, analysis and financial

management in a variety of industries.

Poole has a BA in Psychology from Dartmouth College and an MBA from George Washington

University. She is on the Board of Women in Technology, a member of AFCEA and NVTC, and

maintains an Expert-Level Professional Researcher Certification (PRC) from the Marketing

Research Association (MRA).

Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, Market Connections provides comprehensive B2B

and B2G market research services, enabling organizations to make informed, intelligent

decisions that drive significant and measurable business and process improvements. The firm

offers deep domain expertise in numerous markets, including federal, state and local

governments; information technology and telecommunications; education; healthcare; and

associations and non-profits. For more information visit: www.marketconnectionsinc.com.

Cynthia Poole has extensive experience in all facets of the design, management,

analysis and reporting of complex quantitative research studies targeting audiences

of interest on behalf of public sector clients and commercial organizations. Her

range of research and analysis expertise includes competitor analysis and tracking,

the identification and interpretation of trends, and brand research.

http://www.marketconnectionsinc.com/



Federal Government

Open Source Survey

240 participants involved with Open

Source, IT implementation or IT policy:

► Federal civilian and independent

agencies

► Dept of Defense

► Federal Legislature/Judicial

► State/Local government

► Government contractors/Industry



Open Source Software Use



OSS Applications




Anticipated OSS Changes




Open Source Considerations




Benefits and Challenges




Government Perceptions

• Open Source is the wave of the future and their organization should get on board.

75%

Believe

• The OSS development approach helps produce reliable, high quality software quickly and inexpensively.

63%

Agree

• There is a lack of formal support and training for Open Source in their organization.

57%

Say




Ken Rojas, USDA-NRCS-Information Technology Center

Senior Project Manager

Eucalyptus Customer

Rojas’ interest in Cloud computing started in the early 2000’s with investigations into “grid computing”, but

the business area of his agency wasn’t ready to invest in that early technology. Upwards of two years

ago they started to investigate the use of cloud infrastructure in support of the OMS project. Last spring,

they accumulated a collection of surplus server equipment and created the Cloud Service Innovation

Platform (CSIP) to investigate how best to provision simulation tools and data services in a cloud

environment. The CSIP system has provided a low cost startup platform that is still built up around the

Eucalyptus system.

There are many federal implementations of open source clouds mostly from Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus can

show a simple and functioning hybrid/private cloud infrastructure in a federal government research context

from rack to mobile (end-to-end). This is a hot topic since many federal institutions are standing on huge

legacy server investments which they want to leverage, but need to expand to commercial resources as

the need arises. Eucalyptus’ solution shows them a simple repeatable path as applied to a real world

business driven need for Conservation Delivery to the NRCS field planner.

Ken Rojas has worked 20 years creating agricultural simulation models for the USDA-

Agricultural Research Service. These models are still being used all over the world for

comparative ag-management analysis. He has also been involved in the conception of the

Object Modeling System (OMS), in a partnership with USDA-ARS and Colorado State

University (CSU).



Cloud First Policy



USDA-NRCS Business Drivers

Diminishing Budgets…

► New IT infrastructure to support Agency Mission

► Legacy “Stovepipe” environmental modeling tools

► Optimize available enterprise architecture

► Legacy “Big Iron” service data centers

•Outdated solution to answer server needs

#1 Help the Farmer…

– Best tools to answer concerns…

• User expectations are high,

need to adapt…



CSIP

Services

OMS3

Compute Cloud

Business Process Monitor

Database

Cloud Services Innovation Platform



Key Breakpoints Still Persist

► Partitioning of legacy IT resources to balance Public

and Secure access needs

► Optimization of emerging cloud usage with

Department enterprise architecture

► Elastic adaptation to varying load

expectations

► Computational scalability of

environmental tools

► Movement towards DaaS

► Scalability of GeoSpatial data

• Multiple TB data sources

► This is a work in progress…

► Open Source offerings fill all our needs

• Eucalyptus IaaS Cloud

► Hybrid cloud model ideal for public toolsets

► Physical versus Virtual savings

► Manageable 10% hit

► Resource Balancing

• Highly dynamic

o Case specific



Lessons Learned &

Practical Benefits

Cloud

Configuration

Simulation

Tool

Data

Sources



Gunnar Hellekson, Red Hat

Chief Technology Strategist, US Public Sector Group

Gunnar Hellekson is the Chief Technology Strategist for Red Hat’s US Public Sector

group, where he works with systems integrators and government agencies to encourage

the use of open source software in government. He was recently named co-chair

of Open Source for America and one of Federal Computer Week’s Fed 100 for 2010. He

is an active member of the Military Open Source working group and a GTO-21

commissioner. He is specifically interested in cross-domain security, edge innovation,

and interagency collaboration through the open source model.

Prior to joining Red Hat, he worked as a developer, systems administrator, and IT director for a

number of Internet businesses. He has also been a business and IT consultant to not-for-profit

organizations in New York City. During that time, he spearheaded the reform of safety regulations for

New York State’s electrical utilities through the Jodie Lane Project.

When he’s not spreading the Good News about open source, he’s wishing he had a dog.

As Red Hat’s Largest Government Reseller, DLT Solutions helps the DoD and other government

agencies overcome real-world challenges through its best-in-class information technology products

and superior services. From open source and virtualization to cloud computing and more, DLT

provides the most trusted and innovative Red Hat solutions available to federal, state and municipal

governments.

Website: www.dlt.com/redhat

http://www.redhat.com/solutions/government/

http://www.redhat.com/solutions/government/

http://opensourceforamerica.org/

http://fcw.com/pages/2010-federal-100.aspx

http://www.mil-oss.org/

http://www.techamericafoundation.org/techamerica-foundation-announces-new-gto-21-commissioners



http://www.dlt.com/redhat



A Classic Case

► 40 legacy infrastructure servers,

handling DNS, DHCP, Active

Directory, etc.

► Facing a “cloud first” mandate

► Unsustainable maintenance costs

► No excess capacity

► Mostly Windows, some Linux

► Danger of vendor capture



A Comprehensive Approach

► Revised systems management

► Use existing administrator skills

► Virtual machines

Red Hat Enterprise

Virtualization

(KVM)

► Lifecycle management

Red Hat Network Satellite

(Spacewalk, Cobbler)



A Comprehensive Improvement

► 40 computers became 4.

► The excess capacity is now useful.

► Same or better performance at half

the cost of alternatives.

► Better visibility.

► Better separation of tasks.

► Better security.

► Smarter lifecycle management.



What Open Source Provides

► Vendor independence • Each component works with a

new provider

• No friction from sunk licensing costs

► Feature velocity • Each layer cleanly separated

• 18-month-old product beat a

9 year veteran

► Better agility • Each layer cleanly separated

• Innovations can be quickly

incorporated

• Can be easily integrated with

future clouds



Melvin Greer, Lockheed Martin

Senior Fellow, Chief Strategist Cloud Computing

Greer is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities and is an accomplished author, “The Web

Services and Service Oriented Architecture” and “Software as a Service Inflection Point, Using Cloud

Computing to Achieve Business Agility” are his most recently published books.

Greer received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems and Technology and

his Master of Science in Information Systems from American University, Wash. D.C. He also obtained his

Post Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership, Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about

132,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture,

integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The company has

developed and implemented its own OS cloud environment called Eureka Streams, and is developing

numerous federal applications, including those for emergency response, healthcare, and weather and

ocean observance.

Melvin Greer is Senior Fellow and Chief Strategist, Cloud Computing Lockheed Martin,

Chief Technology Office. With over 25 years of systems and software engineering

experience, he is a recognized expert in Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud

Computing. He functions as a principal investigator in advanced research studies. Greer is

a Certified Enterprise Architect, the Vice-chair of the Network Centric Operations Industry

Consortium (NCOIC), Cloud Computing Working Group and an Advisory Council member

of the Cloud Security Alliance.



Elements of Openness

► Participation / community

► Transparency

► Accountability

► Availability

► Licensing / right to use



Open Standard

► A standard is like a blueprint: it tells

you what you must do if you actually

get around to building something.

► An open standard is the enemy

of lock-in.

► An open standard is one that is

developed and maintained in a

particularly transparent way with

community involvement, and is

“freely” available and implementable



Open Source

► Open source is code, actual concrete

software, and it may implement open

standards

► Open source is built and maintained in

a particularly transparent way with

community involvement, and is “freely”

available.

► Creative common licenses, for

example, should be used for non-

source code content.



Open Source for America

Open Source for America (OSFA) is an organization

of technology industry leaders, non-government

associations and academic and research institutions

dedicated to advocating the use of open source

software in the U.S. federal government.

Participation is open to any individual or entity.

(>120 members)



Federal Open Source and Cloud



What questions do you have?

• Any questions we are not able to answer during this

session, we will endeavor to follow-up with responses



Luice Woo, Marketing Specialist [email protected]

David Butler [email protected]

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Melvin Greer [email protected]

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