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Defense Information Systems Agency
A Combat Support Agency
Cloud Computing:
A perspective
Mr. Henry J. Sienkiewicz
Technical Program Director
Computing Services
Defense Information Systems Agency
September 2009

2.
Our World Today
A Combat Support Agency
Changes in the underlying platform enable
Web 2.0 – blogs, wikis, social networking
• Agility/flexibility of technology – implying a power shift
• Always on – ubiquitous
• Real time information and immediate feedback
• Providing
– New distribution channels
– Early warning through the blogosphere
– Radical transparency
– Dynamic, ad hoc sharing and collaboration
Presenting challenges for the „institution‟ 2

3.
Changes In
A Combat Support Agency
Consumption Patterns
Warfighters
On Demand
Developers Commodity Service
Flexibility Providers
Security
Customers
Changes In Expectations 3

4.
Processing & Storage
A Combat Support Agency as a Service
Concept Processor Orders to date
• Acquire capacity as a service provided • 439 total orders completed, with a $31.5M
annualized value
by vendor partners
• Average delivery timeline of 11 days
• Pay much like a homeowner pays for – 14 days for mainframe; 10 for server
utilities, e.g., by CPU-hours or – 113 orders took less than 5 days
megabytes consumed – 208 orders took between 5 – 14 days
Storage Orders to date
• 157 Total Orders Completed
• $9.6M Annualized Value
• Average delivery timeline of 14 Days
– 7 Days for Disk
– 11 Days for Network Ports
– 24 Days for Tape Slot Capacity
Speed, Agility, Utility Pricing, Reduced Overhead
& Technology Currency 4

5.
Virtualization
A Combat Support Agency
• Why? Many benefits…
– Consolidation – Reduces footprint
– Deployment – Eases provisioning of new workloads
– Agility – Increases support for changing workload demands and simple
failover situations
– Protection - Lowers barriers to disaster recovery
– Savings – Fewer machines means fewer administrators, less power, floor
space, and cooling
– Utilization - Enables multiple systems to run on high-performance hardware
– Price – Reduces the cost of service delivery and lowers the total cost of
ownership
• Current utilization is 15% - 20%, climbs to > 60% through virtualization
• Server virtualization standard environments
– Windows/Linux – VMware
– Solaris 10 Containers
– HP-UX virtual server environment
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DISA Computing Environment
A Combat Support Agency
• 4,000,000+ users
• 13 facilities
• 445,000 sq ft raised floor
• 34 mainframes
• 6,100 servers
• 3,800 terabytes of storage
• 2,800 application / database
instances
• 215 software vendors
Defense Enterprise Computing Centers (DECC) 6

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“The Cloud”
A Combat Support Agency
A style of computing where massively
scalable (and elastic) IT-related capabilities
are provided “as a service” to external
customers using Internet technologies.
What’s new?
Technical Model:
Acquisition Model: Business Model: Access Model: Over
Scalable, elastic,
Based on purchasing Based on pay for the Internet to ANY
dynamic, multi-
of services use device
tenant, & sharable
Source: Gartner
Computing As A Service 7

8.
DISA Cloud Services
A Combat Support Agency Portfolio
Data-as-a-Service
Forge.mil
Software-as-a-Service
Software Development
RACE GCDS
Platform/Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Compute/Store Content Delivery
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Enabling the
A Combat Support Agency Cloud Environment
Infrastructure
– Standardization
– Consolidation
– Capacity Services
– Virtualization
– Content Delivery
– Rapid Provisioning
 Services
– Software (SaaS)
– Applications
– Communications
 Processes
– Metrics & benchmarking
– ITIL
– Service Level Management (SLM)
– Security (Certification &
Accreditation (C&A))
It‟s A Journey 9

10.
RACE Drivers…Why Do It
A Combat Support Agency
• Support faster application development/deployment
– Reduce hardware provisioning from months to hours
– Provide standard platforms to encourage standardization
– Developing under security guidelines reduces implementation
delays to retrofit security
• Reduce development and operating cost
– Self-service model reduces costs
– Standardization reduces support costs
– Centralizing resources in the cloud
• Improve overall security posture
– No servers under desks
– Secure facilities
– Uniform application of security guidelines
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11.
RACE – The Solution
A Combat Support Agency
Increased Speed Increased Scalability
24 hour provisioning Increase capacity ~ 24 hours
Online self service “Turn On / Turn Off” monthly
Credit card acquisition Capacity on demand
Reduced Risk Reduced Cost
No capital $ needed Pay only for what you need
DECC Infrastructure Month-to-month service
Develop under DoD IA No annual maintenance fees
standards
Computing As A Service 11

12.
RACE Offerings
A Combat Support Agency
Today
Development/Test
24-hour automated
provisioning
1 October 2009
Customer root access Production
Ability to promote from User self-service
Dev to Test provisioning within the FY10 Initiatives
Standard CSD Operating PRODUCTION SIPRNet deployment
Environments environment Complete integrate
Minimized and Ability to promote from accreditation automation
streamlined test to production processes
accreditation Streamlined/Automated Continue to refine RACE
Increase capacity ~ 24 accreditation Portal
hours Pre-established inherited Interface with Forge.Mil
Month-to-month service IA controls Projects
Reduced cost Complete integration with
DISA standardized
configuration management
system (BladeLogic)
On-going Development Driven By The User Community 12

13.
RACE – How
A Combat Support Agency It Works
Source: Gartner
User Self-Service 13

14.
GIG Content Delivery
A Combat Support AgencyService (GCDS)
• The Global Information Grid (GIG) Content Management
System (GCDS):
– DoD designated content delivery service
– Managed by the Defense Information System Agency (DISA's)
Computing Services Directorate (CSD).
– GCDS is a global platform
• Uses Akamai™ technology, that provides intelligent routing and
caching of web-based content.
• Interfaces with web-based applications and portals.
• Requires the local system be configured to allow GCDS to handle
communications between it and the Defense Information Systems
Network (DISN).
• GCDS Cloud Computing Defined:
– Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in the DISN Cloud
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15.
GCDS Customers
A Combat Support Agency
DISN CLOUD ARMY NAVY AIR FORCE MARINES DoD Pending TOTAL
NIPRNET 2 8 3 0 9 1 23
SIPRNET 2 0 1 2 15 7 27
TOTAL 4 8 4 2 24 24 50
SharePoint Portals
Intel Applications
Service Portals,
Mission Applications &
First Responders
eLearning
Applications
Other Web As of:
Applications May 2009
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16.
Forge.mil
A Combat Support Agency
Shared Asset
Libraries & Repositories
TODAY Tester
Developer
• Siloed development environments
• Expensive and time consuming start-
up Developer
• Limited exposure, sharing, or re-use
• Duplication of effort
Shared Test & Development
Certifier
Tools/Services/Environments User
FORGE.mil
• Agile development and testing
• Cross-program sharing: software and services
• Early and continuous collaboration
• Integrated approach to development life cycle
• Extensible platform to support delivery of partner
capabilities
Software Lifecycle Development 16

17.
Forge.mil
A Combat Support Agency
A collaborative platform to improve DoD‟s ability to rapidly deliver dependable
software and services in support of net-centric operations and warfare
Available Collaborative software development and reuse
Now
Q1 FY10 On-demand application development tools
Agile certification process
Future Common test and evaluation environment
Collaborative development of IT standards
Driving Innovation Through Collaboration 17

18.
Challenges and Barriers
A Combat Support Agency
Current
• Balancing Security and Usability
– User Validation
– Virtualization; servers, firewalls, networks
– Access
• Business processes
– Flexible funding; credit cards, speeding MIPR process
• Cultural inertia
– Sharing the vision
– Convincing “Box Huggers”
• Controlling expectations
– “Why can‟t it…..”
Future
• Security optimization
– “Shared” accreditation
– Validation of customer applications
– Integrating Software as a Service
– Accessing federated and shared services
– Varying interpretations of security guidelines
• Business streamlining
– Each Service and Agency has unique processes
– Funding hurdles; Procurement $ verses Operating $
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