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Cloud Computing in the US Government:A US DOD Industry Survey

Kevin L. Jackson

Director, Business Development

Dataline LLC

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Cloud Computing: Pay-per-Use for On-Demand Scalability

KMI Media Group

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“Cloud Musings”

Daily blog providing unique insight into

the use of cloud computing technology

and it’s use in the public sector to

support network centric operations

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• Enjoying Rapid Growth

•Monday, October 27 – Tuesday, November 25

•2,305 views of 50 items

•615 clicks back to the site on 54 items

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Cloud Computing Survey

•Three month informal industry survey

•Purpose: Determine if cloud computing was actually a

viable option for the US DoD IT community.

•On-line survey

•“Cloud Musings” visitor statistics

• Follow-up personal interviews

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On-line Survey – 200 Responses

Type of Organization

• Federal Government - 28%

• Industry - 55%

• State/Local Government - 15%

• Educational Institution – 2%

Cloud Computing Knowledge

•Somewhat familiar - 51%

•Not at all - 30%

•Very familiar – 18%

Geographic Location

•North East - 41%

•North Central - 17%

•West - 15%

•Southeast - 9%

•South Central - 9%

•OCONUS - 9%

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Reasons to consider Cloud Computing

Budget limitations - 22%

Storage limitations – 17%

Event driven information - 12%

Information access - 12%

Mash-ups - 11%

Data center limitations- 9%

IT operational spikes - 10%

Other – 6%

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Cloud Computing Concerns

Security - 54%

Finance/Budget - 12%

Unfamiliar with technology - 12%

Access - 8%

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Cloud Musings” Visitor Statistics

• 2,575 site visitors

• Nearly 4000 pageviews

• Over 65 hours on the site

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Interviews

•DISA using cloud computing to streamline operational expenses while

providing users with fast, customized self-service.

•DIA using cloud computing to meet increasing demands to process large

data on networks more rapidly while realizing budgetary efficiency

•Reliability enhancements from cloud computing helped the US Central

Command (CENTCOM) mitigate the impact of an unplanned cessation of

data transport.

•Cloud computing is seen by DoD as an obvious way to address enterprise

large data problems.

•DOD and DISA are leveraging cloud computing technologies for a global

application lifecycle management solution and software development

collaboration

•NCOIC has recently formed an Enterprise Cloud Computing group to

address current mission requirements and to identify key areas of concern.

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Conclusion

• DoD is moving fairly quickly to adopt cloud computing technologies

• Blog visitor statistics suggests that the public sector market

segment could represent as much as 10% of the cloud computing

industry.

•Leading Drivers

• Capital budget limitations

• data and content storage

• support of operational spikes

• Although security still remains a concern these issues are not

stopping the deployment of global infrastructures

• Lack of appropriate contracting vehicles may slow adoption within

the public sector.

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Thank You

Kevin Jackson

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