Lessons Learned: Government Cloud Computing

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Lessons LearnedGovernment Cloud Computing

• Kevin Jackson
• Kevin.jackson_at_dataline.com
• [phone]

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Cloud Computing Has Two-FaceS

• Technology
• Virtualization
• Application Fabric
• Hadoop
• WAN
• SAN
• Internet
• Etc.

• Business Model
• SaaS
• Software
• Storage
• PaaS
• IaaS
• CaaS
• Etc.

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• Collabnet

Cloud computing approaches that uses an
collaborative development environment can be used
to produce and manage applications in the DoD
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Global Content Delivery
A global content distribution service based on a
cloud computing platform can be used effectively
to support and enhance DoD missions.
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• Salesforce.com

Cloud computing based technologies (CRM and
social networking) reduce the cost of and
increase efficiencies in the military service
recruiting process
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A cloud computing business model can reduce the
cost of providing information to the public.
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• Cloud computing techniques can be used to
  increase public access to high value, machine
  readable datasets generated by the Executive
  Branch of the Federal Government.

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• Eucalyptus
• Lustre file system
• MySQL
• Apache SOLR
• Tomcat 6
• Django
• RabbitMQ
• Erlang
• Trac
• Subversion
• Agilo
• Fabric

Id like to say it a little more bluntly.  If
CIOs dont get ready, manage fears and manage
their risk, they will get run over by this
disruptive technology.  Your organization is
doing it anyway without you!  So do something!
You dont have to move your entire enterprise
into the cloud, just take the first step and look
at some appropriate datasets.  This doesnt have
to be an all or none decision. - Linda
Cureton, CIO NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
The cloud computing model can be effectively and
efficiently used to conduct advanced government
research.
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more transparent and accountable. We also provide
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projects.

• Cloud computing technology and business models
  may be useful in quickly providing inexpensive
  and valuable software applications and
  information to the public.

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Lessons Learned Summary

• When discussing how to use cloud computing, both
  business case and technology aspects should be
  addressed
• Cloud computing approaches that uses an
  collaborative development environment can be used
  to produce and manage applications in the DoD
• A global content distribution service based on a
  cloud computing platform can be used effectively
  to support and enhance DoD missions.
• Cloud computing based technologies (CRM and
  social networking) reduce the cost of and
  increase efficiencies in the military service
  recruiting process
• A cloud computing business model can reduce the
  cost of providing information to the public.
• Cloud computing techniques can be used to
  increase public access to high value, machine
  readable datasets generated by the Executive
  Branch of the Federal Government.
• The cloud computing model can be effectively and
  efficiently used to conduct advanced government
  research.
• Cloud computing technology and business models
  may be useful in quickly providing inexpensive
  and valuable software applications and
  information to the public.
• NCOIC is investigating its possible role in
  assisting the governments and industry providers
  in the adoption of cloud computing.

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Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium
Five Years of Achievement Growth
Industry working together with our
customers www.ncoic.org
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Unlimited NCOIC Overview 20090710
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NCOIC - Achieving the Vision andAccomplishing
the Mission
Vision
Industry working together with our customers to
provide a network centric environment where all
classes of information systems interoperate by
integrating existing and emerging open standards
into a common evolving global framework that
employs a common set of principles and processes.
NCO
InformationArchitecture
Content
Infrastructure
Comm NetworkingArchitecture
System B
System A
System C
Mission
Our mission is to facilitate the global
realization of Network Centric Operations.  We
seek to enable interoperability across the
spectrum of joint, interagency,
intergovernmental, and multinational industrial
and commercial operations.  NCOIC is global, with
membership open to those who wish to apply the
vast potential of network centric technology to
the operational challenges faced by our nations
and their citizens.
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The NCOIC
Focused solely on network centric A global
perspective to facilitate NCO adoption
An industry neutral perspective to facilitate NCO
adoption An industry, government and academic
cadre of expertise
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Advisory Council

• AC Chairman                                       
     General (Ret) Harald Kujat                    
   
• Swedish MoD                                      
    BG Hakan Bergstrom
• Joint Staff  J6                                   
         VADM Nancy E. Brown, USN    
• UK MoD                                            
       AVM Carl Dixon, RAF               
• Italian MoD                                       
         Maj. Gen. Pietro Finnocchio, ITAF         
             
• German Mod                                        
      Dr. Gerhard van der Giet                     
    
• Allied Command Transformation                MGen
  Koen Gijsbers, RNLA                    
• US Navy Liaison                                   
      ADM Harry B. Harris, Jr.
• Australian Defence Organisation                
  RADM Peter Jones       
• AC Chairman Emeritus                              
     Paul G. Kaminski          
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency     Dr.
  Robert Laurine                             
• Federal Aviation Administration               
  Mr. Charles Leader                   
• European Defense Agency                    Mr.
  Carlo Magrassi                   
• US Coast Guard Liaison                       
  Mr. Mark T. Powell                               
   
• French MoD                                        
    BGen Blandine Vinson-Rouchon, DGA  
             
• Former ASD/NII                                    
    Honorable John Stenbit
• NATO C3 Agency                                  
  Maj Gen Georges DHollander, BE AR
• NATO CISSA                                        
    LtGen Kurt Hermann
• US Army CIO/G6                                  
  LTG Jeffrey Sorenson

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Integrated Project Teams (IPTs)and Functional
Teams (FTs)
C3 Interop. IPT
Cyber Security IPT
Application Focus
Tool Focus
Systems Engineering and Integration
Building Blocks
Specialized Frameworks
NCAT
NIF
Coming Next
FTs provide the technical expertise to serve
customer domains, and the IPTs provide
operational information to the FTs to inform our
tools and databases
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