Vishal Khera, Office of the Chief Information Officer, United States Department of Agriculture Hear from federal agencies who have adopted SaaS/Cloud applications and platforms. The agencies will discuss the factors taken into consideration when selecting a particular solution or platform, hurdles that developed during adoption, and what every ISV should know when selling to the public sector.

1. USDA Cloud Implementations Vishal Khera Office of Chief Information Officer February 17, 2011

2. OMB’s Guidance and Expectations Implementation of Cloud based services is one of the key action item identified in the OMB’s 25 Point Plan to Reform Federal IT Management. USDA OCIO continues to embrace the “Cloud First” policy and has rolled out several enterprise Cloud based solutions. - 2-

4. Improved capital utilization and reduced license costs

5. Improved productivity in application development, application management, network, and end-user ops.

7. Near real time increase in capacity enables OCIO to help Agencies better meet their mission area demands

9. Improved execution of Green IT goals

11. Current State Implementation of USDA Cloud Services (Cont’d) 5 NITC IaaS Three different tiers of virtualized disk storage Priced as per GB per month approach to provide maximum flexibility Rapid provisioning for agency programs USDA Enterprise Messaging System Cloud based email solution for all USDA agencies to accelerate consolidation Estimated savings up to $6M per year 120,000 users to be migrated over the next several months USDA Connect Included Lotus Connections offering for Web 2.0 collaboration Enables dynamic network of co-workers and business partners Scalable solution offered to all USDA agencies at a fraction of the cost of IBM’s LotusLiveSaas offering NITC PaaS Fully managed operating platform up to and including the operating system. Provide a secure environment that has been fully certified and accredited Competitively priced service being used by 10+ agencies for 20+ applications

12. Cloud Applicability Analysis Framework USDA OCIO has prepared an evaluation framework to analyze various workloads against the key differentiators that determine the workload applicability for Cloud computing. These key differentiators include: 6 Value Attributes Readiness Attributes Security Efficiency Agility Elasticity Needs Innovation SLA Requirements Data Confidentiality Needs

13. The Way Forward… USDA OCIO will continue to improve and expand the Cloud services offered to its Agencies We continue to work with our agencies to anticipate their demand for Cloud services Additional services being considered include enhancements to DbaaS and self-service development environments As identified in OMB plan, we will continue to consolidate the Cloud demand at the Department level to drive economies of scale Address Cloud management and governance issues Continue to assess applicability of Public clouds for our workloads and the associated ROI 7