4. Office of Science and Technology
Essential Characteristics of Cloud (NIST)
On-demand self-service
Broad network access
Resource pooling
Rapid elasticity
Measured service
5. Office of Science and Technology
A Continuum Of IT Services Provision
In-House
Outsourced
Tenancy
Service Provision
Single
Internal/Self
Ownership of IT
Control
Efficient/”Green”
(Sharing)
Public Cloud
Multi
External/Others
Customer
Vendor (Subscription Model)
High ✓
Medium
Low
Very Low
Low
Medium
High
Very High
(Resource Pooling)✓
Speed to Set-up
New Services
Slower
Cost
Flexible to Meet
Demand Change
Hosted
Faster (Self-service, Standards,
Centralized C&A…)✓
High
Low
Medium
Medium
Low (pay as go) ✓
High (On-Demand) ✓
6. Office of Science and Technology
Cloud Computing Services
SaaS
(End-user Apps)
PaaS
(Integrated Development
Environment)
IaaS
(Server, Database, Storage)
11. Office of Science and Technology
Recent Government Milestones
March 2010
May 2010
October 2010
November 2010
December 2010
• Los Angeles
(30,000 users) first
U.S. city to
announce move of
email to Cloud
• Recovery.Gov
federal website
implemented in the
cloud.
• NYC (30,000 users)
announces moving
email to cloud and
Army (1.6 million
users) announces
moving email to
DISA cloud
• DOI (88,000 users)
sued by Google
over Microsoft cloud
agreement
• GSA (17,000 users)
and USDA
(120,000) first
federal agencies to
move email to
Cloud