Cloud Computing

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Cloud Computing

• Gus Hunt
• Chief Technology Officer
• CIA

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Cloud Computing Definitions

• Large commodity computing infrastructures at cost
  effective scales
• Dynamic, elastic, rapid provisioning and hosting
  of services, applications, and data
• Rigorous use of virtualization and standards
• Ultra-efficient management of infrastructure
  through automation
• Continuity of operations vs disaster recovery

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Types of CloudsPhysical View

• Applications
• Services
• Mash-ups

Amazon--EC/2 Microsoft Azure
Hosting
CPU
Disk
RAM
Google Yahoo!
Zmanda iDrive Mozy
Compute
Storage

• Web pages
• User data
• E-mail
• Images

• Mass Analytics
• Internet search
• Map/Reduce

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Types of CloudsLogical View

• Public/Commercialhosting and storage for anyone
  for a fee
• Data and security concerns make this unlikely for
  the IC
• Semi-privateshared services within a community
  or dedicated services within a public offering
• Were looking at how to do this with our IC
  partners
• Private/Enterpriselocal to an enterprise,
  company, or agency
• Were in the process of deploying our internal
  cloud

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Why Cloud?

• Strategic and technical direction
• Efficiency and effectiveness
• Speed and agility
• Performance, availability and reliability
• Unprecedented capabilities for mission

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Cloud Benefits

• Leverages industry and community investment
• Solves long-standing performance issues with
  large data sets
• Agile hosting and cost effective growth and
  scalingflattens the investment curve-- Moores
  Law
• Enables new data analytics for business
• Drives new solutions for emergency
  preparednessCOOP not DR

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Not all is SunnyCloud Issues

• Captivity/lock-incan you switch service
  providers?
• Not a problem well face
• Cross-cloud standardscan my services run in
  another cloud when needed?
• Security
• Key management with dynamic data movement
• Who controls whats running?
• How do they protect it? Is the image secure?
• Whos looking?
• Data clean-uphow do you remove data you dont
  want out there? Are you sure its gone?