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

Implementations

Tutorial for Cloud Computing Workshop Day at theData Center Consolidation Summit

Dr. Brand NiemannFormer US EPA Senior Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist

Current Binary Group Senior Enterprise Architect and Data ScientistOctober 3, 2011

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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

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Introductions

http://semanticommunity.info/Federal_Cloud_Computing/February_7-9_2011_2nd_Annual_Cloud_Computing_for_DoD_and_Government_Conference

Been There and Done This!

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Introductions

http://fcw.com/articles/2011/03/14/comment-brand-niemann-cloud-federal-it.aspx

Do Your Own IT!

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Introductions

http://gov.aol.com/2011/07/12/federal-data-center-map-why-are-over-half-the-data-centers-miss/

Also: Mapping 2011 Federal Data Center Consolidation Update: Better data but over half the data centers are still not shown.

IntroductionsSix Questions Discussion

LeaderAttendee 1 Attendee 2 Etc.

Who (are you)? Brand Niemann

What (do you do)?

Enterprise Architecture & Data Science

When (have you done it)?

30+ years of federal service

Where (did you do it)?

U.S. EPA

Why (did you do it)?

Idealistic about public service

How (do you do it)?

Communities of Practice

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Purpose: To help build your professional network especially for doing Federal Cloud Computing going forward.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws

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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

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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)

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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

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Kevin Jackson Helps Us

http://twitter.com/#!/kevin_jackson

Prolific Author, Blogger, and Tweeter!

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Slide Share: State of the Cloud

http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/opening-keynote-stateofthecloudwernervogelskeynote

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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!

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Amazon: AWS GovCloud US

http://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/

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Amazon: AWS GovCloud US

http://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/

As low as 10 cents/hour!

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Slide Share: AWS GovCloud US

http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/aws-govcloud-us

Slides worth looking at!

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Build Recovery.gov in the Cloud

http://semanticommunity.info/Build_Recovery.gov_in_the_Cloud

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Build Recovery.gov in the Cloud:Search by ZIP Code

http://semanticommunity.info/Build_Recovery.gov_in_the_Cloud

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Federal Computer Week Editorials

http://semanticommunity.info/A_Gov_2.0_spin_on_archiving_2.0_data

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Build Recovery.gov in the Cloud:Lots of Missing Data!

http://semanticommunity.info/Build_Recovery.gov_in_the_Cloud

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AOL Government Blogs

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

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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.

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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.

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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).

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EPA Apps for the Environment Contest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgg-HuVl2io

Less Than 12 Minutes!

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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.

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Federation of Distributed Content

http://livepublish.binarygroup.com

Re-creation of late 1990’s work on multiple government servers.Every node could be on a separate server!

Merging of:http://web-services.govhttp://www.sdi.gov

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Federation of Distributed Content

http://livepublish.binarygroup.com

Select one or more nodes to searchby checking the box next to the folder.

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Federation of Distributed Content

http://livepublish.binarygroup.com

Select one or more nodes to searchby checking the box next to the folder.

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Federation of Distributed Content

http://livepublish.binarygroup.com

Search for structured and unstructured results.

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Federation of Distributed Content

http://livepublish.binarygroup.com

Structured (below) andunstructured (above) search results.

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Federation of Distributed Content

http://nxt4.binarygroup.com/

Even more powerful than LivePublish used by the FedStats.net Team to winthe Gore Hammer Award for Reinventing Government in 1999!

Index Annual Statistical Abstract PDFs – see next section

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Statistical Abstract

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

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Spreadsheet

Inventory of PDF Files:Older versions did not havetables until 1969.Then in 1995 there were PDFs for each section that includedthe tables.

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Statistical Abstract

http://semanticommunity.info/2010_Annual_Statistical_Abstract

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Statistical Abstract

http://semanticommunity.net/StatAbs2011/ http://semanticommunity.net/StatAbs2011/Agriculture/

Data Center File Directories Data Center Excel Files

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Build a Traumatic Brain Injury Knowledgebase Dashboard in the Cloud

http://cloud.binarygroup.com/Binary_at_LandWarNet_2011Username: guest and Password: guest

Demoed this on the iPad2!

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DemosGoal Content ExampleImproved Word Search Wiki Knowledgebase Brainwaves Newsletter

Improved Database Search Analytics Dashboard Congressional Research

Improved Visualization Dynamic Mapping H1N1 Virus Spread

Improved Business Processes

Dynamic Case Management

Veterans Benefits

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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