Creating a Cloud Based Geospatial Platform National Geospatial Advisory Committee December 6, 2010 Dr. David L. McClure, Ph.D. Associate Administrator Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

What is Cloud Computing? Rather than building and operating dedicated infrastructure to provide IT services, Cloud Computing services are shared resources offered and maintained by a third party to multiple IT “tenants” or organizations . Benefits of this shared services model include: Faster acquisition and deployment of computing resources Economies of scale through easier sharing of IT services across organizations Lower capital equipment expenditures By focusing on emerging customer demand, GSA can successfully pilot the acquisition and use of select cloud services now to establish a leadership position for Federal agencies Why is cloud important? On-demand Self-Service Ubiquitous Network Access Location Independent Resource Pooling Rapid Elasticity Measured Service NIST Cloud Definition NIST defines cloud offerings as having five essential characteristics: 12/7/10 GSA Confidential and Proprietary NGAC Briefing

Cloud Computing – A Key OMB IT Priority A “Cloud First” Policy Announced by OMB Resource: FY2011 OMB Report on Information Technology 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

Federal Cloud PMO Gov Agencies Vendors CCESC/ CCAC Cloud Computing PMO Cloud Computing Vision / Mission Information Portal Market Research / Use Cases Policies and Guidelines Enterprise Architecture Apps.gov / Procurement Support Information Dissemination Virtual Online Summits Data Call Requirements Interests & Feedback Standards Requirements Security Processes Procurement Approaches Best Practices Gov-wide Communications Direction and Guidance Facilitation Schedule and Coordination Compliant Services and Offerings Input to Standards Collaboration on Developing Standards & Best Practices Security Standards Ops Excellence Comm Cloud Computing Working Groups RFI/RFPs Definitions Security Requirements SLAs 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

Cloud Computing PMO Overview Promoting adoption and removing obstacles in the government-wide acquisition and utilization of cost effective, green and sustainable Federal cloud computing solutions. Federal Cloud Computing Initiative (FCCI) began in March 2009 at the request of the Federal CIO, Vivek Kundra. FCCI Program Management Office was established at GSA in April 2009. FCCI PMO is governed under the Cloud Computing Executive Steering Committee (CCESC), which reports to the Federal CIO Council. 4 additional government-wide governance groups were established within the program: Cloud Computing Advisory Council. Cloud Computing Security Working Group. Cloud Computing Standards Working Group. SaaS Email Working Group. Apps.gov FedRAMP Data Center Consolidation Initiative Infrastructure-as-a-Service Software-as-a-Service Email Platform-as-a-Service (Geospatial) http://info.apps.gov 5 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

Info.apps.gov – Showing the Way Info.Apps.gov is a place where agencies can gather information about how Cloud Computing can help create sustainable, more cost-effective IT Services for the Federal Government. Keeping you informed in upcoming events! Reference Documents at your fingertips! Provides tools to navigate the cloud landscape. News and Information on Cloud and Data Center Topics 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

Cloud Services available on apps.gov First Federal storefront site to commoditize cloud services so that buyers may cross-compare products and purchase (launched September, 2009). Currently offering SaaS and social media products. 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

12 Cloud Service Providers Receive IaaS Awards Vendor Cloud Storage Virtual Machines Web Hosting 1 Apptis, Inc. X 2 AT&T 3 Autonomic Resources 4 CGI Federal Inc. 5 Computer Literacy World 6 Computer Technology Consultants 7 Eyak Tech LLC 8 General Dynamics Information Technology 9 Insight Public Sector 10 Savvis Federal Systems 11 Verizon Federal Inc. 12 Carahsoft Total Awards by Lot 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

Visit fedramp.gov for Documentation & Comments Federal Risk & Authorization Management Program Unified Government-wide Risk Management Program Provides joint security authorization and continuous monitoring Agencies participate by leveraging the results for covered products Agencies retain their responsibility and authority to ensure their security needs are met in the use of systems Vendor Benefits Government-wide authorization and security compliance cost reduction Agency Benefits Cost savings through reduced duplication Rapid acquisition Increased security assurance Problem: Independent agency risk management has inefficiencies Federal Agencies Risk Management Cloud Providers Solution: Unified risk management eliminates inefficiencies Cloud Providers Visit fedramp.gov for Documentation & Comments 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): Email Inter-agency SaaS Email Working Group established in June 2010. Developing an RFQ for a government-wide BPA of SaaS email solutions. RFI completed. 13 respondents. RFI responses will be leveraged to create RFQ requirements. Pre-solicitation day held November 1 to solicit vendor and government feedback. Email Procurement to be conducted early 2011. GSA completed security authorization of Google Apps which may be leveraged by other agencies. USAID leveraged Google Apps security authorization package to greatly reduce timeline for system implementation 10 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

GeoCloud Community Technical Platform Introducing the Initiative Business Drivers Growing pool of identified agency applications seeking cloud benefits 12 Existing Geospatial applications as targets Quantify savings, identify risks, ease migration Platforms Construct a discrete subset of secure supporting platforms Develop processes for rapid application migration Leverage certifications and platform commonalities Develop chargeback mechanisms for self-sustaining funding Best Practices Capture lessons learned Document techniques, issues and solutions Document cost models and benchmarks Build a cloud platform support community Maintain platforms, scripts and updates for client agencies Results 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

Potential Offerings: Geospatial PaaS … More … FGDC App 1 FGDC App 2 Large pool of agency applications identified for cloud migration Platform Revenue Stream Apps Need Platforms Platform Savings Platform building time & effort Reduced mainten-ance costs Faster deploy-ment Cost effective develop-ment / test Federal Platform Reference Implementations Enable Infrastructure Savings Platforms Amplify IaaS Savings GeoCloud Community Platform Infrastructure as A Service Savings Hardware Savings Operations Savings Scalability Savings 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

Cloud Community Platform Service Scope Initial Target Applications for Community Platforms Agency Platform Based On Base Platform Category DOI Wetlands Mapper Windows/IIS/ESRI Windows ESRI Platform with additions for ORACLE as needed Normal USDA USDA CDSI Web Services Windows/IIS/ESRI /SQLServer USDA Geospatial Public Catalog Windows/JSP/ESRI/SQL2008 EPA EPA Lakes & Ponds Windows / PostGres/ESRI NOAA NOAA Particles Linux/Java/Axis/MQ Linux Open Source Platform with Java/Ruby on Rails/Tomcat,/EJB3, PostGres, MySQL (alt) Python, PHP, Perl and Apache Good candidate for a single base platform USGS GEOSS GeoNetwork w. additions Linux/TomCat/PostGres Census TIGER/LINE Shapefiles Linux / Apache / Perl/Python IOOS Registry + NOAA ERDAP Linux/TomCat/THREDDS Data DHS Emergency Web Response Site Linux LAMP USGS VGI OpenStreetMap Linux/Apache/PostGIS/Ruby On Rails/Timecop FGDC GeoCloud Community Platform Portal Linux LAMP/Drupal 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

Platform as a Service Architectural Framework Distinguishing Application, Platform and Infrastructure Application Servers: Provide the deployment environment for actual business applications with access to enablers, frameworks and runtimes Applications 12 identified GeoSpatial Applications + more agency apps… Platform as a Service (PaaS) Platform Enablers: Platform enablers provide core supporting capabilities for developing , testing and deploying code, including DBMS, Directory, Queue, Service Bus, etc. A relational database is the most common enabler example but is not present in all platforms Platform Application Servers App Frameworks / Libraries Runtime Systems Platform Enablers (DB’s, etc) Frameworks and Libraries save time and expense freeing developers from having to build common code and behaviors. Focus on the large chunks of functionality in PaaS App Servers: that provide key services to applications. Like JEE and .NET, PHP Enablers: Like air. The crucial invisible service glue that give apps the Platform Environment that they need Libs that you call, and frameworks that call your app and provide core services Runtimes that enable code to operate in the operating system Runtimes: provide the execution support for developing and running the code. Examples include Java, Python, Microsoft Common Language Runtime, etc. Infrastructure Operating System Virtual Machines / CPU Storage 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing DRAFT - GSA OCIO INTERNAL USE ONLY

Data.gov

What are Data.gov Catalogs? “Raw” Data Catalog Includes datasets in an download of machine readable, platform-independent datasets Tool Catalog Provides hyperlinks which may lead to agency tools or agency web pages that allow you to mine datasets. Geodata Catalog Linked to Geodata.gov

Data.gov Today 2895 Raw Datasets 638 Tools 303,181 Geodata 306,714 Total in Catalog

Geo-Spatial Data is A Key Enabler for “Killer Apps” What’s Next? Geo-data Integration Geo-Spatial Data is A Key Enabler for “Killer Apps” Combine capabilities of Geodata.gov and Data.gov Enhanced visualization and data-mashing capabilities Geo-aware applications are key. How to realize the promise of geospatial information systems (GIS) for the nation? Geo-data “architected and built-in” Lightweight geo-applications and mash-ups for Web 2.0/Gov 2.0 Incremental, agile, actionable and affordable delivery

Data.gov : Migration, Key Improvements and Policy Issues Geospatial enhancements to Data.gov: Catalog Services Adopting automated harvesting methods Provide access to all data types from geodata.gov Provide access to FGDC metadata as defined and populated by suppliers Implement a geospatial search and visualization Implement a harvestable Catalog (API) Enable data.gov to search suppliers and other open data catalogs Implement GeoRSS and RSS notifications Publish data.gov catalog as a map (KML,WMS) and data service (RDF) for multiple client access Public domain Geodata.gov datasets that don’t meet policy guidelines will be migrated and maintained in a distributed catalog Decommission Geodata.gov? Bullet One. Data.gov is going to have all the bells and whistles that geodata.gov had but not be limited by datasets only created as geo. Bullet Two. We are going to salvage all the public domain data that fails policy. Commerical will not be brought forward Bullet 3 – We are going to retire the system and infrastructure hosted by ESRI through formal DOI decommission Background – Geodata.gov is currently being harvested and brought into Data.gov to get count of datasets up but at a loss of functionality and at risk of loosing suppliers who would be active partners from the geo community. 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

Data.gov Catalog – Relationship to Geo-Platform and Cloud Data.gov should provide the catalog and metadata searching services for the Geo Community Treat data as data Data.gov site and application; over time can be a SaaS offering – running in a cloud Data.gov has observed a need for its suppliers to have geospatial services (Paas) to support use cases to do: Geo enablement services for datasets Map Service Hosting Dynamic map service creation for datasets Delivery /Download services for large datasets Formatting services for datasets Data.gov has observed need for its suppliers to have IaaS services Data storage Computational Processing Bullet 1 - Data.gov can act as the core catalog for the geo community – access to data and map services and applications as well as other catalogs Bullet 2 - As GSA matures, Data.gov can be instantiated as a set of key software services for reuse with other programs an perhaps many of our suppliers – take advantage of cloud once use case proves cost effective for this type of application. Bullet 3 – Data.gov Catalog build out has uncovered numerous use cases where it is more than just the software stack that is needed. Bullet 4 -IaaS is needed for orgs who are “have nots” or who want to concentrate on core mission and not mess with the unpredictability of internet demand Background. Existing FGDC Geo Platform documents allude to using Data.gov as their catalog which is a sound proposition. But for it to be useable it would have to have the geo enhancements on the previous slide . It creates a very good division of services with the geo platform. 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

Data.gov in Geo Community Data.gov is intended to replace key functionality of geodata.gov and can act as the core catalog for the geo community and others as well. Take best practices from geo and bring to the broader community Diagram is take from the FGDC Geo Platform – we superimposed Data.gov on top to basically substitute for the old geodata.gov. 12/7/10 NGAC Briefing

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