A Combat Support Agency Defense Information Systems Agency Cloud Computing: A perspective Mr. Henry J. Sienkiewicz Technical Program Director Computing

A Combat Support Agency

Defense Information Systems Agency

Cloud Computing: Cloud Computing: A perspectiveA perspective

Mr. Henry J. SienkiewiczTechnical Program Director

Computing ServicesDefense Information Systems Agency

September 2009

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Our World TodayOur World Today

Presenting challenges for the ‘institution’

Changes in the underlying platform enableWeb 2.0 – blogs, wikis, social networking

• Agility/flexibility of technology – implying a power shift

• Always on – ubiquitous

• Real time information and immediate feedback

• Providing– New distribution channels

– Early warning through the blogosphere

– Radical transparency

– Dynamic, ad hoc sharing and collaboration

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Changes In Changes In Consumption PatternsConsumption Patterns

Developers ServiceProviders

Warfighters

Customers

On DemandCommodityFlexibilitySecurity

Changes In Expectations

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Processing & Storage as a Service

Concept• Acquire capacity as a service provided

by vendor partners

• Pay much like a homeowner pays for utilities, e.g., by CPU-hours or megabytes consumed

• 439 total orders completed, with a $31.5M annualized value

• Average delivery timeline of 11 days– 14 days for mainframe; 10 for server– 113 orders took less than 5 days– 208 orders took between 5 – 14 days

Processor Orders to date

Storage Orders to date• 157 Total Orders Completed• $9.6M Annualized Value• Average delivery timeline of 14 Days

– 7 Days for Disk – 11 Days for Network Ports– 24 Days for Tape Slot Capacity

Speed, Agility, Utility Pricing, Reduced Overhead & Technology Currency

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Virtualization

• Why? Many benefits…– Consolidation – Reduces footprint – Deployment – Eases provisioning of new workloads– Agility – Increases support for changing workload demands and simple

failover situations – Protection - Lowers barriers to disaster recovery– Savings – Fewer machines means fewer administrators, less power, floor

space, and cooling– Utilization - Enables multiple systems to run on high-performance hardware– Price – Reduces the cost of service delivery and lowers the total cost of

ownership• Current utilization is 15% - 20%, climbs to > 60% through virtualization

• Server virtualization standard environments– Windows/Linux – VMware– Solaris 10 Containers– HP-UX virtual server environment

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DISA Computing EnvironmentDISA Computing Environment

• 4,000,000+ users

• 13 facilities

• 445,000 sq ft raised floor

• 34 mainframes

• 6,100 servers

• 3,800 terabytes of storage

• 2,800 application / database

instances

• 215 software vendors

Defense Enterprise Computing Centers (DECC)

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““The Cloud”The Cloud”

What’s new?

A style of computing where massively scalable (and elastic) IT-related capabilities

are provided “as a service” to external customers using Internet technologies.

Acquisition Model: Based on

purchasing of services

Source: Gartner

Business Model: Based on pay for

use

Access Model: Over the Internet to ANY

device

Technical Model: Scalable, elastic, dynamic, multi-

tenant, & sharable

Computing As A Service

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DISA Cloud Services DISA Cloud Services PortfolioPortfolio

Platform/Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Software-as-a-Service

Data-as-a-Service

GCDS

Content Delivery

RACE

Compute/Store

Forge.mil

Software Development

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Enabling the Enabling the Cloud EnvironmentCloud Environment

Infrastructure– Standardization – Consolidation– Capacity Services – Virtualization– Content Delivery – Rapid Provisioning

Services– Software (SaaS)– Applications– Communications

Processes– Metrics & benchmarking – ITIL – Service Level Management (SLM)– Security (Certification &

Accreditation (C&A))

It’s A Journey

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RACE Drivers…Why Do ItRACE Drivers…Why Do It

• Support faster application development/deployment– Reduce hardware provisioning from months to hours

– Provide standard platforms to encourage standardization

– Developing under security guidelines reduces implementation delays to retrofit security

• Reduce development and operating cost– Self-service model reduces costs– Standardization reduces support costs– Centralizing resources in the cloud

• Improve overall security posture– No servers under desks– Secure facilities– Uniform application of security guidelines

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RACE – The SolutionRACE – The Solution

Reduced CostPay only for what you need

Month-to-month service

No annual maintenance fees

Increased Speed24 hour provisioning

Online self service

Credit card acquisition

Reduced RiskNo capital $ needed

DECC Infrastructure

Develop under DoD IA standards

Increased ScalabilityIncrease capacity ~ 24 hours

“Turn On / Turn Off” monthly

Capacity on demand

Computing As A Service

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RACE OfferingsRACE Offerings

Development/Test24-hour automated provisioning

Customer root access

Ability to promote from Dev to Test

Standard CSD Operating Environments

Minimized and streamlined accreditation

Increase capacity ~ 24 hours

Month-to-month service

Reduced cost

Today

ProductionUser self-service provisioning within the PRODUCTION environment

Ability to promote from test to production

Streamlined/Automated accreditation

Pre-established inherited IA controls

1 October 2009

SIPRNet deployment

Complete integrate accreditation automation processes

Continue to refine RACE Portal

Interface with Forge.Mil Projects

Complete integration with DISA standardized configuration management system (BladeLogic)

FY10 Initiatives

On-going Development Driven By The User Community

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RACE – How RACE – How It WorksIt Works

Source: GartnerUser Self-Service

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• The Global Information Grid (GIG) Content Management System (GCDS):

– DoD designated content delivery service – Managed by the Defense Information System Agency (DISA's)

Computing Services Directorate (CSD). – GCDS is a global platform

• Uses Akamai™ technology, that provides intelligent routing and caching of web-based content.

• Interfaces with web-based applications and portals. • Requires the local system be configured to allow GCDS to handle

communications between it and the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN).

• GCDS Cloud Computing Defined:– Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in the DISN Cloud

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GIG Content Delivery GIG Content Delivery Service (GCDS)Service (GCDS)

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SharePoint Portals

Intel Applications

Service Portals, Mission Applications &

First Responders

eLearning Applications

Other Web Applications

GCDS CustomersGCDS CustomersDISN CLOUD ARMY NAVY AIR FORCE MARINES DoD Pending TOTAL

NIPRNET 2 8 3 0 9 1 23

SIPRNET 2 0 1 2 15 7 27

TOTAL 4 8 4 2 24 24 50

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As of: May 2009

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Forge.milForge.mil

TODAY• Siloed development environments• Expensive and time consuming start-up

• Limited exposure, sharing, or re-use• Duplication of effort

TODAY• Siloed development environments• Expensive and time consuming start-up

• Limited exposure, sharing, or re-use• Duplication of effort

Developer

Tester

User Certifier

Shared Test & Development Tools/Services/Environments

Shared Asset Libraries & Repositories

Developer

FORGE.mil• Agile development and testing • Cross-program sharing: software and services• Early and continuous collaboration • Integrated approach to development life cycle• Extensible platform to support delivery of partner capabilities

FORGE.mil• Agile development and testing • Cross-program sharing: software and services• Early and continuous collaboration • Integrated approach to development life cycle• Extensible platform to support delivery of partner capabilities

Software Lifecycle Development

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A collaborative platform to improve DoD’s ability to rapidly deliver dependable software and services in support of net-centric operations and warfare

Common test and evaluation environment

Collaborative software development and reuse

On-demand application development tools

Agile certification process

Collaborative development of IT standards

Forge.milForge.mil

AvailableNow

AvailableNow

Q1 FY10Q1 FY10

FutureFuture

Driving Innovation Through Collaboration

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Challenges and BarriersChallenges and Barriers

Current• Balancing Security and Usability

– User Validation– Virtualization; servers, firewalls, networks– Access

• Business processes– Flexible funding; credit cards, speeding MIPR process

• Cultural inertia– Sharing the vision– Convincing “Box Huggers”

• Controlling expectations– “Why can’t it…..”

Future• Security optimization

– “Shared” accreditation– Validation of customer applications– Integrating Software as a Service– Accessing federated and shared services– Varying interpretations of security guidelines

• Business streamlining– Each Service and Agency has unique processes– Funding hurdles; Procurement $ verses Operating $

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