Latest Cloud Case Studies for Federal Cloud Computing: From Business Cases to Pilots to Implementations

1. Latest Cloud Case Studies for Federal Cloud Computing: From Business Cases to Pilots to Implementations Tutorial for Cloud Computing Workshop Day at the Data Center Consolidation Summit Dr. Brand Niemann Former US EPA Senior Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist Current Binary Group Senior Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist October 3, 2011

2. Overview • Federal Cloud Computing has evolved in the past year from business cases, to pilots, to implementations. This interactive discussion will help you build your professional network, understand the complex landscape, see the Cloud Computing cases identified by NIST and see some pilots and implementations related to Cloud Computing. Your participation should empower you to engage in Federal Cloud Computing! • What will be covered: • Business Cases: Cloud Computing cases identified by NIST • What has been learned over the last three years • Q&A: Empower you to engage in Federal Cloud Computing • How you will benefit: • Build your professional network • Understand the complex landscape • Learn from examples from the session leader http://www.dccevent.com/Event.aspx?id=579270

3. Introductions Been There and Done This! http://semanticommunity.info/Federal_Cloud_Computing/February_7-9_2011_2nd_Annual_Cloud_Computing_for_DoD_and_Government_Conference

4. Introductions Do Your Own IT! http://fcw.com/articles/2011/03/14/comment-brand-niemann-cloud-federal-it.aspx

5. Introductions Also: Mapping 2011 Federal Data Center Consolidation Update: Better data but over half the data centers are still not shown. http://gov.aol.com/2011/07/12/federal-data-center-map-why-are-over-half-the-data-centers-miss/

6. Introductions Purpose: To help build your professional network especially for doing Federal Cloud Computing going forward. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws

7. Conference Day 1 • GSA PERSPECTIVE: Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative • DOE PERSPECTIVE: 1.4 PUE – The New Mandate for Federal Data Center Energy Efficiency • TERREMARK PERSPECTIVE: The Data Center of the Future • DISA CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER: DISA's Current Efforts in Data Center Consolidation • ENERGY ALLIANCE PERSPECTIVE: Promoting the Use of Green IT by Reducing Energy and Real Estate • NIST PERSPECTIVE: Developing Greater Interoperability, Portability and Security Capabilities • DEPARTMENT OF STATE UPDATE: IT Data Center Consolidation Strategies at the U.S. Department of State • UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PERSPECTIVE: The Future of Cloud Computing

8. Conference Day 2 • ARMY PERSPECTIVE: Technology Transformation in the Army IT Agency • DHS PERSPECTIVE: Data Center Consolidation Efforts • KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The Politics of Data Center Consolidation • NIST PERSPECTIVE: The Persistent Need for Cyber Security • DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE: Cloud Computing Strategies and Lessons Learned • UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PERSPECTIVE: Evolution of Formal and Informal Institutions around Cloud Security • COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PERSPECTIVE: Building a Measurement Infrastructure for the Data Center and Demonstrating its Positive Effect on the Transformation of an Aging Facility • DISA PERSPECTIVE: GIG Content Delivery Service (GCDS)

9. Complex Landscape • Data Center Transformation: • Columbia University • Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative: • GSA, DHS, DISA, Army, State Department, and Politics • Federal Data Center Energy Efficiency: • Energy Department and Energy Alliance • Cloud Security: • NIST and University of North Carolina • Cloud Service and Data Center Providers: • DISA, Interior Department, Terremark, and University of Illinois

10. Kevin Jackson Helps Us Prolific Author, Blogger, and Tweeter! http://twitter.com/#!/kevin_jackson

11. Slide Share: State of the Cloud http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/opening-keynote-stateofthecloudwernervogelskeynote

12. Practical Cloud Computing for Data Services* • Amazon Government Cloud Services • Recent Announcement and Slide Share Tutorial • Recovery.gov • DGI Interview and My Versions 1 (Search) and 2 (Quality) • EPA Apps for the Environment Contest • My Submission and YouTube Video • Federation of Distributed Content • FedStats.net (1999) started out where Data.gov (2011) is ending up! • Statistical Abstract • Waiting for 2012 Final Edition for the Data Center Consolidation in the Cloud Pilot! • Build a Traumatic Brain Injury Knowledgebase Dashboard in the Cloud • LandWarNet 2011 Conference iPad2 Demo * It is not where you put your data (cloud), but how you put your data there!

13. Amazon: AWS GovCloud US http://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/

14. Amazon: AWS GovCloud US As low as 10 cents/hour! http://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/

15. Slide Share: AWS GovCloud US Slides worth looking at! http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/aws-govcloud-us

16. Recovery.gov • Executive Insight from Shawn Kingsberry:  A Strategic Roadmap for Implementing Cloud-Based Technologies • Shawn Kingsberry, Assistant Director of Technology and Chief Information Officer, Recovery and Accountability Transparency Board discusses A Strategic Roadmap for Implementing Cloud-Based Technologies.  An expert on the cloud, he and Rob Groat, Chief Technology Officer, Smartronix, will lead Digital Government Institute's September 22 Cloud-Enabled Government Conference & Expo.  Read DGI’s interview with Shawn. http://www.digitalgovernment.com/News/Executive-Insight-Shawn-Kingsberry--A-Strategic-Roadmap-for-Implementing-Cloud-Based-Technologies.shtml

17. Recovery.gov • DGI: How did you build the recovery.gov site? • SK: We started building a physical infrastructure at the Savvis data center service, one of the largest data center providers in North America. We wanted to make sure we used a proven provider that has the infrastructure to stay up and running. • DGI: What was your timetable? • SK: We initially launched recovery.gov without any rich data or any geography tools in February 2009. The goal was to meet timeline and communicate what we were launching. Between February and September 2009, we did a lot of communication, we were posting documents and communicating out. • On Sept. 28, 2009, we launched the redeployment, incorporating ESRI, the  largest mapping company in the world. Microsoft became a big partner, and recovery.gov became the largest public-facing share point website in the federal government if not the world. • After we redeployed in September, we got to a point in 2010 where we normalized. We turned to executing our Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) plan. Then we worked on moving the whole site to the Cloud. We looked at performance, cost, timeframe, scope, risk analysis and security. It was a no brainer to move to the cloud. On April 26, 2010, we officially launched in the cloud.

18. Recovery.gov • DGI: What are the benefits of the cloud? • SK: In the first fiscal year, there were savings of $750,000. The long-term savings are in the millions. You increase your security posture by moving to a cloud service model. By consolidating all of your systems to a virtualized infrastructure, you have better visibility to your system and can react quicker to any problem. You have elasticity and better performance.  You also have on demand provisioning.  If we need new capabilities we don’t have to wait weeks for the procurement cycle and deployment.  We can provision what we need almost instantly and because of that we are much more agile. Amazon is the cloud service provider. Smartronix is the integrator.

19. Recovery.gov • DGI: Can you give us five tips for every agency to follow in developing their own foolproof site? • SK: • Clearly lay out your business requirements; keep  technology separate. • Hire an integrator who understands enterprise complexities. • Develop a cost saving strategy and timeline. • Extremely focus on your security. • Don’t focus on saving the world. Take incremental steps so you can feel the results of what you’re doing.

20. Build Recovery.gov in the Cloud http://semanticommunity.info/Build_Recovery.gov_in_the_Cloud

21. Build Recovery.gov in the Cloud:Search by ZIP Code http://semanticommunity.info/Build_Recovery.gov_in_the_Cloud

22. Federal Computer Week Editorials http://semanticommunity.info/A_Gov_2.0_spin_on_archiving_2.0_data

23. Build Recovery.gov in the Cloud:Lots of Missing Data! http://semanticommunity.info/Build_Recovery.gov_in_the_Cloud

24. AOL Government Blogs http://gov.aol.com/2011/09/08/recovery-gov-a-good-start-but-show-us-all-the-missing-data/

25. EPA Apps for the Environment Contest • Stage I: While Dr. Brand Niemann was the Senior Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist at the US EPA, he published a paper entitled "Put Your Desktop in the Cloud in Support of the Open Government Directive and a Data.gov/Semantic" (Published in a Paper April 19, 2010). Then he developed his own Open Government Plan and Build over 42 Apps related to his EPA work and over 25 Data Science Products related to his work for Data.gov and other interagency activities.

26. EPA Apps for the Environment Contest • Stage II: Since leaving the US EPA after 30+  years of federal service, Dr. Niemann has continued to work on EPA, Data.gov, and international data applications as Director and Senior Data Scientist for the Semantic Community and AOL Government as a "data blogger". The June 9th announcement of the EPA Apps for the Environment by Administrator Lisa Jackson was a very significant development because in the broader perspective it made it possible for Dr. Niemann to build on Stage I and envision a Stage III which would make this an even more valuable and sustainable program. Dr. Niemann decided to subdivide Stage II into a Phase I (Making EPA Data More Useful in the Cloud) and Phase II (Chesapeake Bay Program Stats and Indicators in the Cloud) because the 30 data sets needed to be put into a more useful form and because the Chesapeake Bay data sets offered more opportunities for meaningful integration and use by decision makers and the public than the 30 data sets.

27. EPA Apps for the Environment Contest • Stage III: The presentation at the Geospatial Summit this week on "GIS Integrating and Sharing Data: Lessons Learned from the EPA" by Lisa Jenkins & David G. Smith, US EPA, highlighted the need to integrate all the complicated backend business processes from Stage I in a state-or-the-art dynamic case management platform like Be Informed which Dr. Niemann is currently piloting for DoD, Army, Veterans Administration, and other clients of the Binary Group (Username: guest and Password: guest) where Dr. Niemann is currently employed as a Senior Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist. The results of Stage III with Be Informed would be integrated with the results of Stage II. This means this contest sets the stage for a longer-term more sustainable and meaningful activity where these "contest apps" have a permanent home and broader purpose (see request for success stories by Whitehouse Office of Open Innovation).

28. EPA Apps for the Environment Contest Less Than 12 Minutes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgg-HuVl2io

29. Federation of Distributed Content • Competing Forces: • Data Center Consolidation means moving toward data centralization, but it could also mean moving the data to cloud applications that are distributed. • Collaboration means leaving the data where it originates (distributed) and/or centralizing it. • Federation means making the distributed data appear to be in one place and to be searchable. • Local security for data can make federation difficult. • My work on FedStats.net (1999) with LivePublish and NXT4 started where Data.gov is ending up (2011)! • Data.gov wants Socrata to support federation of agency data sets. • MindTouch and Silver Spotfire already support federation! Recall my Build EPA Apps in the Cloud.

30. Federation of Distributed Content Merging of: http://web-services.gov http://www.sdi.gov Re-creation of late 1990’s work on multiple government servers. Every node could be on a separate server! http://livepublish.binarygroup.com

31. Federation of Distributed Content Select one or more nodes to search by checking the box next to the folder. http://livepublish.binarygroup.com

32. Federation of Distributed Content Select one or more nodes to search by checking the box next to the folder. http://livepublish.binarygroup.com

33. Federation of Distributed Content Search for structured and unstructured results. http://livepublish.binarygroup.com

34. Federation of Distributed Content Structured (below) and unstructured (above) search results. http://livepublish.binarygroup.com

35. Federation of Distributed Content Even more powerful than LivePublish used by the FedStats.net Team to win the Gore Hammer Award for Reinventing Government in 1999! Index Annual Statistical Abstract PDFs – see next section http://nxt4.binarygroup.com/

36. Statistical Abstract http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

37. Spreadsheet Inventory of PDF Files: Older versions did not have tables until 1969. Then in 1995 there were PDFs for each section that included the tables.

38. Statistical Abstract http://semanticommunity.info/2010_Annual_Statistical_Abstract

39. Statistical Abstract Data Center File Directories Data Center Excel Files http://semanticommunity.net/StatAbs2011/ http://semanticommunity.net/StatAbs2011/Agriculture/

40. Build a Traumatic Brain Injury Knowledgebase Dashboard in the Cloud Demoed this on the iPad2! http://cloud.binarygroup.com/Binary_at_LandWarNet_2011 Username: guest and Password: guest

41. Demos

42. Questions and Answers • Brand Niemann: • Senior Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist, US Environmental Protection Agency (1980-2010) • http://semanticommunity.info/#EPA_Activities • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgg-HuVl2io • Director and Senior Data Scientist, Semantic Community (2011-present) • http://semanticommunity.info • bniemann@cox.net • Senior Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist, Binary Group (2011-present) • http://cloud.binarygroup.com • bniemann@binarygroup.com