Disa CSD Cloud Brief Sept 2009 Hjs

A Combat Support Agency

Defense Information Systems Agency

Cloud Computing:

A perspective

Mr. Henry J. Sienkiewicz

Technical Program Director

Computing Services

Defense Information Systems Agency

September 2009


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Our World Today

Presenting challenges for the „institution‟

Changes in the underlying platform enable

Web 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

Consumption Patterns

Developers Service

Providers

Warfighters

Customers

On Demand

Commodity

Flexibility

Security

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 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”

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 Portfolio

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

Cloud 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 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 Solution

Reduced Cost

Pay only for what you need

Month-to-month service

No annual maintenance fees

Increased Speed

24 hour provisioning

Online self service

Credit card acquisition

Reduced Risk

No capital $ needed

DECC Infrastructure

Develop under DoD IA

standards

Increased Scalability

Increase capacity ~ 24 hours

“Turn On / Turn Off” monthly

Capacity on demand

Computing As A Service


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RACE 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

It 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

Service (GCDS)


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SharePoint Portals

Intel Applications

Service Portals, Mission Applications &

First Responders

eLearning Applications

Other Web Applications

GCDS Customers

DISN 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

http://www.mcafee.com/


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Forge.mil

TODAY• Siloed development environments

• Expensive and time consuming start-

up

• Limited exposure, sharing, or re-use

• Duplication of effort

Developer

Tester

UserCertifier

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

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.mil

AvailableNow

Q1 FY10

Future

Driving Innovation Through Collaboration


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Challenges 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 $