Practical Implementations of Cloud Computing within the Federal Market,

Practical Implementations of Cloud Computing in the Federal Government Cameron Chaboudy – Apptis March 11, 2009

Agenda
How the Federal Government can take advantage of cloud computing today
A Prediction of what the federal cloud computing landscape may look like in 2 – 5 years

Barriers to Leveraging Emergent Technologies
Culture
Risk adverse
Innovation is not rewarded
Old and inefficient work processes
Legacy Policies
Non industry trained technical staff
Approved solutions resemble existing solutions which excludes performance breakthroughs
No incentive to explore breakthrough solutions
Federal Procurement process
Lack of incentives for industry to provide out-of-the-box solutions because they are deemed to risky for the Federal Government
IAC Returning Innovation to the Federal Government with Information Technology December 11, 2008

Even with the current barriers the Federal Government can and is taking advantage of cloud computing

Surge – aka CloudBursting
Utilized when the IT infrastructure is not adequate to support an increase in demand or volumes
Removes the need to acquire IT infrastructure that sits idle or is under utilized
Examples: Annual or scheduled enrollment applications, Scheduled/Unscheduled in-take of information

Public Dissemination of Information
Static information that is accessible by the public, visible today but housed within the IT boundaries of the enterprise
Examples: FAQs, agency relevant information that is sought by public

Development/Test Environment
Development Environments
Project Specific
Limited time use
Version control
Non production data
Test Environments
Availability
Stress and scale
Integration
Configuration Mgt

Web Services
Development of web services which utilize a standardized platform and have inherit elasticity
Web Portlets
Web Applets
Example: Calculators, Questionnaires, Non PII Qualification assessments

Planning for Disaster Recovery & Continuity of Ops
Evaluating alternatives to building infrastructure to meet DR and COOP requirements
Performing assessment of existing systems, application and architecture

Encrypted Storage
Storing encrypted data in a commercial cloud

Review of How Cloud Computing Can Be Used Today
Surge
Public Information
Test and Development Environments
Web Services
Planning Disaster Recover and Continuity of Ops
Encrypted Data storage

Looking Through the Crystal Ball
Let’s take a look at what the federal cloud computing landscape may look like in 2 – 5 years

Barriers to Leveraging Emergent Technologies
The landscape has changed
Policy is catching up
Procurement process have been updated
Focus on Innovation
Shift to Risk Management
There are still some barriers
Migrating legacy applications
Data Governance
Data Classification

The Triumph of Economics and Innovation

On-Line Collaboration
Department specific
Classification dependant
Business or Mission commonality

Vertical Clouds
Clouds designed to support commonality of BusinessMission requirements
Military
Healthcare
Law Enforcement
Intelligence gathering

Private Clouds
Cloud like environments developed for specific Department or Agency use

Commercial Federal Clouds
Commercial cloud providers have partitioned a section of the public cloud offering to be used only by the Federal Government

Disaster Recovery & Continuity of Ops
Disaster Recovery solutions utilizing Cloud Computing
Automated back-up of systems, applications or data into a Cloud Computing Storage Service
Full utilization of Hybrid cloud model to support COOP

Secure Storage
3 rd party Storage Clouds that have been Federally accredited to store specific levels of data

Review of Looking Through the Crystal Ball
Online Collaboration
Vertical Cloud
Private Cloud
Commercial Federal Clouds
Disaster Recover and Continuity of Ops
Secure Storage
06/08/09

Cameron Chaboudy Apptis Director, Advanced Emergent Services [email_address]

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