This document discusses the opportunities and benefits of cloud computing for public sector organizations. It outlines various cloud service models including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). SaaS provides simplified software access, PaaS enables rapid application development on scalable platforms, and IaaS offers virtualized infrastructure resources. The document suggests public entities assess moving infrastructure to IaaS for cost savings, develop new apps on PaaS to generate revenue, and leverage cloud services to reduce IT workload. Overall it promotes cloud computing as a way for governments to reduce costs, increase flexibility and revenue, and better deliver IT services.

1. Cloud Computing and
the Public Sector
Or why I love my house.
Ed Saipetch
Sr. vSpecialist - Service Providers
EMC
@edsai on twitter
http://breathingdata.com/

2. Why is it relevant?
• Opportunities
• Reduce costs
• Increase revenue
• Government initiatives support Cloud

3. What do Clouds taste
like?
• SLA-focused. Pay-
as-you-go.
• Flexible/Scalable/
Resilient
• Low cost of
entry
• Secure

4. The Cloud
• Software as a Service
• Platform as a Service Public
Cloud
• Infrastructure as a
service Private
Cloud
You Control
Federation
Cloud
Virtualized Computing
Datacenter Virtualization
Information and Network
Security
Internal Cloud External Cloud
Inside Firewall Outside Firewall

5. SaaS - Software as a Service
• Software as a Service
• Hardware/Operating System/Application
are abstracted
• More simplicity / Less control

6. PaaS - Platform as a Service
• App development in the Cloud
• Hardware/Operating System are abstracted
• Quick development, low cost entry
• Uses common languages (.Net, RoR, Java)
• Rich API service integration

7. IaaS - Infrastructure as a
Service
• Private/Hybrid/On & Off Prem.
• 100% Virtualized
• Self-service portals
• Bring and/or Maintain your own OS/App

8. Other services
• Storage - Inexpensive object-based
• Backup - Data protection
• Unified Communications/Collaboration

9. Is the Cloud right for
you?

10. It depends.*
(*yes. we all hate that answer)

11. Risk
• What can I put in the Cloud?
• Regulations & Compliance
• Data offshore?
• Trust but verify
• Acceptable fault domains (1 provider?)

12. Governance
• *aaS can bring good
behavior
• Deliver IT as a service
• End users want us out of
the way
• Server huggers/ IT pros
want control

13. p le
x am GIS Consumer Portal App
E
on PaaS
• Use case: Mobile app or Mashup
• What’s required:
• .Net, Java or Ruby on Rails app
• PaaS platform understanding
• Benefit: Rapid development. Low cost.
Scalable platform.

14. p le
x am GIS Analytics App
E
on IaaS/PaaS
• Use case: Image recognition/Large data set
analytics
• What’s required
• .Net, Java or Ruby on Rails to dev app on
Azure, Spring, Joyent or similar
• Benefit: Rapid development. Low cost.
Scalable platform.

15. p le
a m
E x Outsourced Infrastructure
• Move to IaaS in a regional SAS 70
datacenter
• What’s required:
• 100% virtualization (it’s a journey)
• Benefit: Lower costs at small scales, little
NRE (Non-recoverable Engineering)

16. What do I do next?
• Assess internal IT infrastructure (IaaS)
• Capex vs Opex
• Develop new apps to bring in revenue
(PaaS) or use as leverage
• Reduce IT Management workload (*aaS)

17. Thank you.
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