1. Office of Science and Technology
“To Cloud Or Not To Cloud?”
Andy Blumenthal
Chief Technology Officer, ATF
02.24.11

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Overview

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What is the Cloud?

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Essential Characteristics of Cloud (NIST)
On-demand self-service
Broad network access
Resource pooling
Rapid elasticity
Measured service

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A Continuum Of IT Services Provision
In-House
Outsourced
Tenancy
Service Provision
Single
Internal/Self
Ownership of IT
Control
Efficient/”Green”
(Sharing)
Public Cloud
Multi
External/Others
Customer
Vendor (Subscription Model)
High ✓
Medium
Low
Very Low
Low
Medium
High
Very High
(Resource Pooling)✓
Speed to Set-up
New Services
Slower
Cost
Flexible to Meet
Demand Change
Hosted
Faster (Self-service, Standards,
Centralized C&A…)✓
High
Low
Medium
Medium
Low (pay as go) ✓
High (On-Demand) ✓

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Cloud Computing Services
SaaS
(End-user Apps)
PaaS
(Integrated Development
Environment)
IaaS
(Server, Database, Storage)

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Adoption

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Adoption Driven By The White House

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Impact on Agencies

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Early Adoption

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Recent Government Milestones
March 2010
May 2010
October 2010
November 2010
December 2010
• Los Angeles
(30,000 users) first
U.S. city to
announce move of
email to Cloud
• Recovery.Gov
federal website
implemented in the
cloud.
• NYC (30,000 users)
announces moving
email to cloud and
Army (1.6 million
users) announces
moving email to
DISA cloud
• DOI (88,000 users)
sued by Google
over Microsoft cloud
agreement
• GSA (17,000 users)
and USDA
(120,000) first
federal agencies to
move email to
Cloud

12. Office of Science and Technology
ATF

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Our Mission

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Virtualization

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SaaS
Hosted for ATF
Hosted by ATF
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1. BATS
2. eTrace
3. NIBIN
4. GangNet
UFMS
NFC
HR Connect
Learn ATF
IdeaScale
CATS

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Email & Collaboration

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IaaS

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Our IaaS Framework
User (Device)
Experience
Services
Productivity
Software as a
Service
Unified
Communications
(desktop, laptop,
handheld)
(email,
SharePoint, etc.)
(LAN, voice, VTC,
wireless)
Managed
Print/MFD
(print, copy, fax)
Application
Hosting
Unified Help
Desk
Specialized
Support
(special ops,
engineering, etc.)

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Before Proceeding…
Some Key Considerations
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Network
Authentication
Customization
Interoperability
Deployment
Service Support
Change Management
Lock-in
Security

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Three Keys To Success

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Thank You!