1. Gus Hunt Chief Technology Officer CIA
Cloud Computing
Gus Hunt
Chief Technology Officer
CIA

2. Cloud Computing Definitions
Large commodity computing infrastructures at cost effective scales
Dynamic, elastic, rapid provisioning and hosting of services, applications, and data
Rigorous use of virtualization and standards
Ultra-efficient management of infrastructure through automation
Continuity of operations vs disaster recovery

3. Types of Clouds—Physical View
Applications
Services
Mash-ups
Amazon--EC/2
Microsoft Azure
Hosting
CPU
Disk
RAM
Google
Yahoo!
Zmanda
iDrive
Mozy
Compute
Storage
Web pages
User data
Images …
Mass Analytics
Internet search
Map/Reduce

4. Types of Clouds—Logical View
Public/Commercial—hosting and storage for anyone for a fee
Data and security concerns make this unlikely for the IC
Semi-private—shared services within a community or dedicated services within a public offering
We’re looking at how to do this with our IC partners
Private/Enterprise—local to an enterprise, company, or agency
We’re in the process of deploying our internal cloud

5. Why Cloud? Strategic and technical direction
Efficiency and effectiveness
Speed and agility
Performance, availability and reliability
Unprecedented capabilities for mission

6. Cloud Benefits Leverages industry and community investment
Solves long-standing performance issues with large data sets
Agile hosting and cost effective growth and scaling—flattens the investment curve-- “Moore’s Law”
Enables new data analytics for business
Drives new solutions for emergency preparedness—COOP not DR

7. Not all is Sunny—Cloud Issues
Captivity/lock-in—can you switch service providers?
Not a problem we’ll face
Cross-cloud standards—can my services run in another cloud when needed?
Security
Key management with dynamic data movement
Who controls what’s running?
How do they protect it? Is the image secure?
Who’s looking?
Data clean-up—how do you remove data you don’t want out there? Are you sure its gone?