Cloud Computing & Spatial Data Infrastructure - 2012

armasuisse Federal Office of Topography swisstopo COSIG

Cloud Computing for Spatial Data Infrastructure 4 years experience by swisstopo

Eurogeographics Webinar – 2.10.2012

Cédric Moullet

2 Federal Office of Topography swisstopo COSIG

The European Union made a move on Thursday to get its foot in the cloud computing door, saying it could deliver 2.5 million new jobs to Europe. redOrbit (http://s.tt/1oy8v)

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Federal Office of Topography swisstopo •  Federal Geo-Information center •  321 employees •  Producer of the swiss national maps •  Operator of the swiss Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

(FSDI) •  Provider of about 80 geoservices and web mapping

applications federated under «geo.admin.ch: the geoportal of the Swiss Confederation»

www.swisstopo.admin.ch – www.geo.admin.ch


•  What is cloud computing ?

•  Cloud Computing Benefits

•  The Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

•  Cloud Computing and FSDI

•  Questions

Agenda


Let’s use a simple analogy

Say you just moved to a city, and you’re looking for a place to live

Slides stolen from «I’m cloud confused»


You can either

Build a house or

Rent an apartment



If you build a house, there are a few important decisions you have to make…



How big is the house? are you planning to grow a large family?

Remodel, addition typically cost a lot more once the house is built



But, you get a chance to customize it

tile

flooring

Roof floor plan

landscaping

windows

lighting



Once the house is built, you’re responsible for maintenance

Hire Landscaper Electrician Plumber

Pay property tax

Electricity Water

Gutter Cleaning Heating and Cooling House Keeping



How about renting?



Consider a builder in your city builds

a massive number of apartment units



A unit can easily be converted into a 2,3,4 or more units



You make a fewer,

simpler decisions

You can start with one unit and grow later, or downsize



But…

You do not have a lot of options to

customize your unit



However, builders provide you with very high quality infrastructure

high speed Internet

high capacity electricity

triple pane windows

green materials



No need to worry about maintenance cost

No need to Hire landscapers, electricians, plumbers



Just pay your rent and utilities

Pay as You Go Slides stolen from «I’m cloud confused»


What is cloud computing ?

Cloud Computing is a new way of delivering computing resources, not a new technology.

European Network and Information Security Agency, Cloud Computing, 2009

Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet).

Wikipedia


Main cloud computing models Software as Service (SaaS) Software as a service, sometimes referred to as "on-demand software", is a software delivery model in which software and associated data are centrally hosted on the cloud.

Wikipedia

Platform as a Service (PaaS) Platform as a service (PaaS) is a service that provide a computing platform and a solution stack (database, web server etc..) as a service.

Wikipedia

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Infrastructure as a Service is a provision model in which an organization outsources the equipment used to support operations, including storage, hardware, servers and networking components.

Search Cloud Computing


Main cloud computing models

SaaS

Desktop and business applications

PaaS

Software platform to host cloud based enterprise applications

IaaS

Servers, storage


Buying services instead of buying hardware and software

Designation of this project / as at TT/MM/JJ

Cloud Computing


Public cloud Public cloud applications, storage, and other resources are made available to the general public by a service provider.

Wikipedia

Community cloud Community cloud shares infrastructure between several

organizations from a specific community with common concerns (security, compliance, jurisdiction, etc.), whether managed internally or by a third-party and hosted internally or externally.

Private cloud Private cloud is cloud infrastructure operated solely for a single organization, whether managed internally or by a third-party and hosted internally or externally.

Hybrid cloud Hybrid cloud is a composition of two or more clouds (private, community or public) that are bound together.

Cloud Computing deployment models


IT as a service !


Cloud Computing


Hype Cycle for cloud computing



•  Cloud Computing Benefits


•  Cloud Computing and FSDI

•  Questions

Agenda


Elastic Capacity

•  Scaling up and … down in minutes •  No provision •  Use only ressources that you need •  Manage unepected peaks (slashdots effects)


Elastic Capacity


Elastic Capacity


Elastic Capacity

Traditional IT Cloud Computing Server number Server number

Success breakdown

Performance limit

Overcapacity

Load

Load

Overcapacity


Elastic Capacity

Source


Quick deployment

•  No more IT Infrastructure barrier •  Instantaneous provisioning •  Shorter development cycles


No initial investment


Pay for what you use

•  CPU per hours •  Gigabyte (storage and transfer) per month •  Turn on/off ressources


IT Infrastructure as API

•  IT Infrastructure is automated •  Focus on you business •  Reuse, not reinvent the wheel



•  Cloud computing benefits


•  Cloud computing and FSDI

•  Questions

Agenda



60-80% OF ALL DECISIONS TAKEN

IN OUR WORLD CAN BE

RELATED TO GEOINFORMATION

Coopers and Lybrand, 1996


Federal Act on Geoinformation (GeoIG), 1. July 2008

Art. 1 Aim

This Act has the aim of ensuring that geodata relating to the territory of

the Swiss Confederation is made available for general use to the

authorities of the Confederation, the cantons and communes, the private

sector, the public and to academic and scientific institutions in a

sustainable, up-to-date, rapid and easy manner, in the required

quality and at a reasonable cost.

SWISS LAW


National Map


Aerial Imagery


TLM


Cadastral Web Map


Addresses


swissALTI3D


Aeronautical Chart


Land Occupancy


Road Traffic Noise


Historical Routes


Dufour Map


Siegfried Map


166 layers available

On 23.9.2012


on mobile, too ;-)


KML Import


Measure


Profile


WMS Import


Drawing


Print


API


portail languages servers datasets MB/s bandwidth tiles /s visits/day tiles

1 5

100 166 500

1’300 50’000

1’500’000’000


Thanks to Cloud Computing






•  Questions

Agenda


swisstopo’s choice

Cloud Computing & FSDI: IaaS Model

Traditional (On Premise)

Platform as a Service

(PaaS)

Software as a Service

(SaaS)

Apps& Services

VM

Server

Storage

Network

Apps & Services

VM

Server

Storage

Network

Applications

Services

Server

Storage

Network

Applications

Services

Server

Storage

Network

Organization has control and bears

responsibility

Organization shares control and responsibility with Cloud

Provider

Cloud Provider has control and bears

responsibility

Infrastructure as a Service

(IaaS)


Cloud Computing & FSDI: History January 2008

Request for the map application of «SchweizMobil» April 2008 Go-Live «SchweizMobil v.1» (Cluster with 1 phys. nnd 3 EC2 Servers with AWS … BETA) July 2008 Federal act on Geoinformation (GeoIG) February 2009 Start of the migration of FSDI (8 Servers) in Public Cloud March 2009 Go-Live «SchweizMobil v.2» (Cluster with 10 EC2 Servers) August 2010 Go-Live «geo.admin.ch: the geoportal of the Swiss Confederation» January 2011 Finalization of the migration of the FSDI in Public Cloud (60 EC2 Servers, 100 TB) September 2011 «geo.admin.ch» goes mobile! September 2012 Trafic record, 100 EC2 servers


Why cloud computing ?

Boost innovation

•  Offer services that were previously not implementable (…bandwidth of 500 MB/s)

•  «Start 10 servers …in 10 minutes … and stop

them 10 minutes later»



Focus on your business

•  Rent IT ressources, don’t manage them



Cost Reduction

•  From 25’000 EUR/server to 6000 EUR/server 8 physical servers: 200’000 EUR/year (maintenance + investition costs) 100 cloud servers: 600’000 EUR/year (maintenance + investition costs)

•  No investition cost

•  Infrastructure is never obsolete



Flexibility •  Generate millions of tiles in one night •  Adapt infrastructure to customer usage •  FSDI can be hosted on whatever cloud provider

(thanks to automation and OpenSource)

•  Faster time to market. An IT ressource is «only» an API call.



Improve security •  Compliance with high security standards (ISO

27001, SOC 1/SSAE 16/ISAE 3402 etc…)

•  Automation allows faster patching

•  Data centers are located on several places worldwide. Possibility to use various locations

•  Big players will not play with security. It’s the hearth of their business, and not of your business.



Improve availability

99.95 % availability (24/24 – 7/7) in 2012



Improve customer services

•  No slashdot effect •  New services are implementable in weeks •  React fast to customer requests •  No downtime (…almost: status.geo.admin.ch)


Keep in mind

•  Cloud offers are not standardized. Cloud API’s are not standardized. -> Provider dependency has to be evaluated.

•  Be careful with private and sensitive data. -> Hybrid cloud has to be evaluated

•  You still need sysadmins to manage your IT. •  Usually, the current applications have to be

migrated to the cloud in order to use it efficiently (clustering, load balancing etc…).


CONCLUSION

"FSDI customers and visitors benefit of a

performing and flexible spatial data infrastructure

based on public cloud computing"


www.geo.admin.ch map.geo.admin.ch api.geo.admin.ch

[email protected] Twitter: @swiss_geoportal

THANK YOU






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Cloud Computing & Spatial Data Infrastructure - 2012