GOINGSUPERNOVATony Abate, Nlets Senior Systems Architect

Nlets Nova ■ Nova is the first offering in the Nlets Secure Cloud Platform

■ Current services provided through Nova are Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions

– Windows and Linux

■ Built on cloud technologies and state of the art hardware and software

– Azure Pack– System Center– Scale-out File Servers– Software-defined networking– Virtualized security controls

■ Architected for redundancy, seamless scale, and abstraction of services

– Highly available– 20GbE backbone– Commodity hardware– “Plug and Play” design

As the International Justice & Public Safety Network, Nlets is uniquely positioned to provide state-of-the-art hosting services to those in the law enforcement community. Nova, the Nlets Secure Cloud Platform, is our most modern solution — a completely customizable virtualized environment that eliminates many of the hassles of traditional hosting. With leading technology and unparalleled customer support, Nova is a virtualized hosting product that stands toe-to-toe with leading industry providers while catering directly to those who support officers on the street. Ideal for all environments, whether it’s primary technology, DR sites or test environments, Nova is a premiere cloud service for the criminal justice community.

Scaling Nova

■ Static Resource Scaling

– Add compute– Add storage

■ New Resource Scaling

– Hyper-converged

■ Transparent Improvements

– Updates and upgrades– Service introduction

■ Automation

– Orchestration– Evolving bot fabric

■ Platform Agnostic

– Azure Pack– Azure Stack– OpenStack

Nlets in Nova

■ “Eating our own dog food”

■ Services ready for migration

– Website and Wiki

■ Re-design and architect with minimal effort

– Change where to talk and not how to communicate

– Maintain existing controls

■ Leverage opportunity to streamline services and consolidate

Nlets Website

Nlets Wiki

Nlets Secure File Transfer

Nlets Justice Portal

Nlets External Services

Federated Services

Multi-factor Authentication

Primary Site

Disaster Recovery

Service Endpoint

Message Switch

Phase II

What’s next for Nova?

■ Nova is ever-evolving

■ Community feedback

■ Areas of growth

Phase II – Data Protection■ Number one question from customers: Do

you provide backups?■ VM Protection allows automated backups of

servers with controls for restoration■ Storage-as-a-Service

– General storage for customers within Nova– Off-site backups for customers not in Nova

■ Data encryption and consumption

Phase II - SaaS■ Software-as-a-Service offerings through Nova

■ Database-as-a-Service– Microsoft SQL Server– MySQL

■ Web Sites– Secure and sandboxed web services without IaaS

■ Service Bus– API endpoints for public or private consumption, integrated bus for use

with IaaS or SaaS offerings

■ Provider Fabric– Update services

– Common services gateway (SMTP, NTP,DNS, etc.)

Phase III

How will Nova evolve?

■ Greater abstraction

■ Enhanced services

■ Integration

■ Nlets Cloud

Phase III – Load Balancing■ Virtualized load balancers

– Citrix and F5

■ Fully under customer control

■ Integrated into environment– Single dashboard for all services

Enhanced Management■ Single pane of glass

– All services managed through a single dashboard– Customer controls access

■ Automation tools– Schedulers– Scripting access– API availability

■ Monitoring and management– Health checks for services– Alert subscription

Cloud Fabric■ Customer-created service endpoints

■ Marketplace for available fabric services– Registration and management through the

Nlets Cloud– Fabric Dashboard

■ Additional Nlets Services– Integrate Nlets directly into your application

Ongoing Enhancements■ Expand the Nlets Cloud to additional sites

■ Web Application Firewall

■ Federated Services

■ Multi-factor Authentication

■ Cloud Connections– Azure– AWS– Others

Today’s Nova

■ Phase I is fully operational

■ Customers are on board with more on the way

■ Flexible IaaS in a CJIS-capable and audited facility

■ Direct access to the Nlets Secure Network

Questions?

Tony AbateNlets Senior Systems Architect

(623) 308-3528

tabate@nlets.org

www.nletscloud.org