The document discusses government cloud computing initiatives in several countries and organizations. It outlines the US Federal government's plans to transition more IT services and data centers to cloud computing models in order to reduce costs. This includes initial pilots starting in 2009 and a goal of major agency capabilities being migrated to cloud platforms by 2012. Barriers to adoption like security, interoperability and governance are also covered. The economic benefits of transitioning to cloud computing are estimated to be savings of 5.7 to 15.4 times initial investments over a 10 year period.

1. Government Cloud Computing
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2. Government Cloud Computing
United States
Federal Chief Information Officers Council
Data.gov & IT Dashboard
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE)
US Department of Energy (DOE)
Magellan
General Services Administration (GSA)
Apps.gov
Department of the Interior
National Business Center (NBC) Cloud Computing
NASA Nebula
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
United Kingdom
G-Cloud
European Union
Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers Project
(RESERVOIR)
Canada
Canada Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing and the Canadian Environment
Japan
The Digital Japan Creation Project (ICT Hatoyama Plan)
The Kasumigaseki Cloud

3. President Obama FY 2010 Budget
"Of the investments that will involve up-front costs to be recouped in outyear savings,
cloud-computing is a prime case in point. The Federal Government will transform its
Information Technology Infrastructure by virtualizing data centers, consolidating data
centers and operations, and ultimately adopting a cloud-computing business model.
Initial pilots conducted in collaboration with Federal agencies will serve as test beds to
demonstrate capabilities, including appropriate security and privacy protection at or
exceeding current best practices, developing standards, gathering data, and
benchmarking costs and performance. The pilots will evolve into migrations of major
agency capabilities from agency computing platforms to base agency IT processes and
data in the cloud. Expected savings in the outyears, as more agencies reduce their costs
of hosting systems in their own data centers, should be many times the original
investment in this area."

4. Federal Cloud Computing Initiative (FCCI)

5. Federal Timeline
May 2009
Cloud Computing
Industry Summit
May 2009
April 2009 Infrastructure-as-a- September 2009
CIO Cloud Service RFI Issued Apps.Gov Launched
Computing Program July 2009
Management Office Infrastructure-as-a-
Established Service RFP Released
March 2009 May 2009 July 2009
Cloud Computing NIST develops initial Software-as-a-
Program Launched Cloud Computing Service RFI Released
Definition

7. Presidential Executive Order 13514
October 5, 2009
 Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic
Performance
 Section 1. Policy. In order to create a clean energy economy that will
increase our Nation's prosperity, promote energy security, protect the
interests of taxpayers, and safeguard the health of our environment, the
Federal Government must lead by example. It is therefore the policy of the
United States that Federal agencies shall increase energy efficiency;
measure, report, and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions from direct and
indirect activities; …..
 Sec. 2. Goals for Agencies. In implementing the policy set forth in section 1
of this order, and preparing and implementing the Strategic Sustainability
Performance Plan called for in section 8 of this order, the head of each
agency shall:
– …..
– (i) promote electronics stewardship, in particular by:
o …..
o (v) implementing best management practices for energy-efficient
management of servers and Federal data centers; and

8. Cloud Computing Benefits
• Significant Cost Reduction: Available at a fraction of the cost of traditional IT services;
upfront capital expenditures eliminated; dramatically reduced IT administrative burden
• Increased Flexibility: On-demand computing across technologies, business solutions
and large ecosystems of providers; Reduced new solution implementation times.
• Access anywhere: Un-tethered from a single computer or network. Use different
computer or move to portable devices, and applications and documents follow.
• Elastic scalability and pay-as-you-go: Add and subtract capacity as your needs change.
Pay for only what you use.
• Easy to implement: No need to purchase hardware, software licenses or
implementation services.
• Service quality: Reliable services, large storage and computing capacity, and 24/7
service and up-time.
• Delegate non-critical applications: Outsource non-critical applications to service
providers and focus agency IT resources on business-critical applications.
• Always the latest software: Updates are automatic
• Sharing documents and group collaboration: Applications and documents
accessiblefrom anywhere in the world, facilitating group collaboration on documents
and projects.

9. Cloud Computing Security
• Cloud Computing option (Public, Private, Community,
Hybrid or None) must support information risk
management profile
• “Brutal standardization” increases automation and
reduces opportunity for human error
• Infrastructure visibility improves ability to deploy,
monitor and enforce security policies
• Advanced data-centric security technologies can be
implemented

10. Cloud Computing Economic Model
Private Cloud

11. Economic Benefit (Booz Allen Hamilton, October 2009)

12. CloudComputing.dataline.com

13. Agency Budgeting Timeline (Booz Allen Hamilton, October 2009)
 Spring 2010
– Agencies plan for cloud migrations
– Initial cloud pilots
 Fall 2010
– Funding submitted for FY 2012 execution
 Fall 2011
– FY 2012 cloud project funding appropriated

14. Key Inhibitors
 Maintenance of status quo
 Transition from infrastructure based security
to data-centric security
 Cloud portability
 Cloud interoperability
 Identity management and federation
 Data and application federation
 Service level agreements
 Cloud governance
 Transactions and concurrency across clouds

15. Summary
 Cloud Computing offers clear opportunities for agencies to significantly
reduce their growing data center and IT hardware expenditures. The
Executive Branch is strongly encouraging and facilitating this transition
through executive order and Apps.gov
 An efficient and properly planned transition to cloud computing can
simultaneously provide significant reduction in datacenter costs and
increase in agency datacenter efficiency.
 The benefit ratio for investing in a transition from status quo
datacenters to a cloud computing based strategy range from 5.7 to
15.4. The Discount Payback Period for two phase transition plans (3-yr
investment phase, 10 year steady-state O&S phase) range from 2.7 to
3.7 years
 Early development efforts (pilots) to support a FY 2012 cloud
computing transition should start in spring 2010

16. Thank You !
Kevin L. Jackson
Director, Business Development
Dataline, LLC
(703) 335-0830
Kevin.jackson@dataline.com
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