GSA Presentation on the Federal Cloud Computing Initiative

Speaker:
Matthew Goodrich
Project Manager, FedRAMP and Apps.gov
General Services Administration
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Software & Information Industry Association
GSA Presentation on
Federal Cloud Computing Initiative

Matthew Goodrich
Project Manager, FedRAMP and Apps.gov
General Services Administration
June 17, 2010

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Billions of Dollars GovernmentHasInvestedBillionsinIT
GovernmentHasInvestedBillionsinIT

The United States Government is the

largest purchaser of IT goods and
services in the world

Source: http://www.cio.gov
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CUT WASTE IMPROVE ENABLE AN OPEN, SECURE OUR

PERFORMANCE AND TRANSPARENT & COMPUTING
DELIVER BETTER PARTICIPATORY ENVIRONMENT
SERVICE GOVERNMENT

Source: http://www.cio.gov
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Service
ImprovePerformance&DeliverBetterService

RATIONALIZE SERVICE DELIVERY SHIFT SERVICES TO THE CLOUD SIMPLIFY ACCESS TO SERVICES
MODELS

Private sector is consolidating data centers Leverage shared services through the cloud End-to-end digital service platforms
while government data centers are growing Launched Apps.gov to simplify procurement of New platforms for delivery e.g., Mobile
Government needs to reverse this trend and cloud services Computing
consolidate

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 Federal Cloud Computing Initiative

Changing the Way Government Leverages Technology.

Cheaper Faster Greener

Provide One-Stop Shop: Simplify Energy Efficiency: Create

Drive Innovation: Work with
acquisition of IT services by virtualized hardware and
private industry encouraging
making it as simple as buying a software services so
innovation and furthering
book, booking an airline ticket, or Government uses only whats
competition among providers to
making a dinner reservation online needed, avoiding
drive best value solutions for the
overbuilding data center and
Government
Turn Up of IT Quickly: Services server capacity
Use Only Whats Needed: can be provisioned in hours or
days versus traditional IT methods Reuse Across Agencies:
Eliminate high upfront costs by
which may take months to deploy Provide shared, resource
aligning costs with actual use or
pooling, for greater reuse and
consumption of IT resources
Scale Rapidly: Deliver elastic ability to leverage
computing, allowing Agencies to underutilized IT resources
Put the Power in the Hands of
rapidly expand or contract IT across Government Agencies
the End Users: Move operating
complexities to the Cloud, resources to support unplanned
allowing Agencies to focus on events or spikes in usage
core mission objectives

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 Federal Cloud Computing Initiative
Leading the Cloud Computing Across Government
The CC PMO is the nucleus of Cloud Computing Initiative for the Federal Government, by setting
direction, establishing guidelines and defining the future vision and architecture

Gov
Agencies
Cloud Computing Vision / Mission
Data Call
Information Portal
Requirements
Market Research / Use Cases
Interests & Feedback
Policies and Guidelines
Enterprise Architecture
Apps.gov / Procurement Support
Information Dissemination
Virtual Online Summits
RFI/RFPs
Definitions
Security Requirements
CC
PMO Standards Requirements
Standards Requirements Security Processes
SLAs Procurement Approaches
Best Practices
Gov-wide Communications

Vendors CC WGs Security

Cloud Computing
Working Groups
Compliant Services and Direction and Guidance Standards
Offerings Facilitation
Input to Standards Schedule and
Collaboration on Developing Coordination
Ops
Standards & Best Practices Comms Excellence

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 Federal Cloud Computing Initiative
Major Program Activities
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SaaS Email 3. Working Groups:

Info.apps.gov Established several inter-agency working groups to develop
CC
standards, set policies and agree to the overall vision for the
PMO
Data Center Working FCCI.
Consolidation Groups
6 3 4. IaaS (infrastructure as a service):
The GSA has released an RFQ (Request for Quote) for IaaS.
FedRAMP IaaS
RFQ This will serve as a foundation for Cloud Computing services
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within the Government.
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Establish and operate a Government-wide Authorization
Program for performing security C&A and continuous
7. SaaS Email: monitoring for commercial Cloud Services.
GSA CC PMO is leading the Cloud SaaS Email Working
Group to define SaaS Email services for Fed Government. 6. Data Center Consolidation:
Managing the Government-wide data center consolidation
8. Geospatial Platform program including guidance, data collection and assisting
Working with government agencies in developing a agencies develop and implement data center consolidation
geospatial platform for sharing data and developing plans.
applications for geospatial purposes.

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Federal Cloud Computing Initiative
Apps.gov

Online storefront for Cloud Services

Recently updated, Apps.gov

provides government buyers
with information and buying
tools to complete their
procurements.

Government users can identify

cloud solutions by category, find
pricing and complete purchases
online!

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 Federal Cloud Computing Initiative-
Info.apps.gov

Keeping you
News and
informed in
Information on
upcoming
Cloud and Data
events!
Center Topics

Provides tools
Reference
to navigate the
Documents at
cloud
your fingertips!
landscape.

Info.Apps.gov is a place where agencies can gather information about how Cloud Computing can help create
sustainable, more cost-effective IT Services for the Federal Government.

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 Federal Cloud Computing Initiative-
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) RFQ
RFQ IaaS Services

Released IaaS RFQ to support

Storage Virtual Machines Server Hosting
Moderate Level Security for
Government
Online Web Online VMs / Online Server
Based Storage Computing Hosting Services will be made
Store Files & Multiple CPU & DNS and CDN available through purchase on
Data Objects OS Types Capabilities apps.gov

RFQ Required
Cloud Computing
Characteristics

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Government-wide Risk Management of
Federal Cloud Computing Initiative - FedRAMP - Federal Risk
Shared
and Systems
Authorization Management Program

: Risk management cost

Federal Agencies savings and increased
effectiveness
Risk Management
-Authorization : Interagency vetted
-Continuous approach
FedRAMP Monitoring
-Federal Security
Requirements : Rapid acquisition
through consolidated
risk management

: Consistent
application of Federal
Outsourced Systems security requirements

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FedRAMP Components
Security FedRAMP Office Joint Authorization
Requirement Board - DOD, GSA,
Authorities: DHS + sponsoring
Technical work by the agency
Cloud Computing
Security Working Group
(CCSWG)
Ultimately: ISIMC
Working Groups

Note: each of the three major

components collaborate but
maintain independence

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 Federal Cloud Computing Initiative
Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDDCI)

GSA is providing support to OMB to meet strategic goals

GSA is assisting agencies on developing long-term consolidation plans which

leverage multiple approaches including Cloud Computing / Virtualization
technologies.

Four Major Strategic Goals matched with four focus areas as follows:

Software
Software Assets
Assets Hardware
Hardware Assets Facilities
Facilities &
& Energy
Energy Location
Location &
& Real
Real Estate
Estate
Identify/Classify Business Application Services
Lower Leasing Costs per Sq Foot
Reduce
Cost Move Applications / Infrastructure to Cloud
Perform Virtualization of Servers / Storage
Consolidate Small Data Centers
Optimize Large Data Centers
Reduce
Utilize Alternative Green Energy Sources
Environmental Impact Optimize Cooling Methods / Performance
Power Supply Improvements

Improve Security via HW & SW Asset and Configuration Management

Increase
Efficiency Improve Performance via Redundancy, Load Balancing, COOP

Aggregate Administrative Functions

Enhance Business Disseminate Government Best Practices
Agility Facilitate Cross-Government Collaboration
Create Metrics for Measuring Goals

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FDCCI Overview of Strategic Goals and Primary Benefits

F
ederal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) Federal CIO Vivek Kundra launched FDCCI on
February 26, 2010, to address the major IT initiatives of President Obamas FY2011 budget proposal.
More than 1,100 data centers will be surveyed for consolidation, leveraging public and private sector best
practices, focusing to:

1. Promote the use of Green IT by reducing the overall energy and real estate footprint of government
data centers;
2. Reduce the cost of data center hardware, software, and operations;
3. Increase the overall IT security posture of the government; and
4. Shift IT investments to more efficient computing platforms and technologies.

P
rimary benefits:

T
he primary benefit from improved IT equipment utilization is reduced overall energy consumption which
leads to significant energy cost savings (up to 90% for virtualized IT equipment)
A
dditional benefits from virtualization and data center consolidation:
Reduced Facilities Maintenance and Operations costs
Reduced Server Maintenance and Operations costs
Improved Automation for Server Management and Provisioning
FDCCI Utilization Improvement Metrics

Improving IT asset utilization is the key driver for reducing energy consumption per
unit of performance. This can be achieved primarily by:

Server Virtualization (increasing the number of virtual servers per hosts)

Server Consolidation (decommissioning underutilized physical servers)
Rack Space Consolidation (relocating underutilized racks)
Data Center Consolidation (shutting down underutilized facilities)
Utilization Metrics Typical Results Target Results
Average Virtualization (%) 0-10% 30-40%

Average Virtual OS per Host (#) 5-10 15-20

Average Server Utilization (%) 7 15% 60 70%

(application dependent)
Average Rack Space Utilization (%) 50 60 % 80 90%

Average Power Density Usage 50 100 W/Sq Ft 150 250 W/Sq Ft

Equivalent (W/sq.ft.)
Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) 32 1.6 1.3
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