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March 14, 2012
Recovery Accountability and
Transparency Board
Cloud Migration
Shawn Kingsberry, Chief Information Officer
Agenda
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Recovery.gov Challenges
The Recovery.gov Process
Recovery.gov Redeployment
The Result
Solution Alternatives – Cloud Feasibility Assessment
Why Cloud Computing?
Recovery.gov Technologies
Recovery.gov Successful Cloud Move
FederalAccountability.gov
Questions?
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Communicating Through Time
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdWN7B
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The Law – February 2009
H.R. 1 §1526
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The website shall provide materials explaining what this Act means for citizens. The
materials shall be easy to understand and regularly updated.
The website shall provide accountability information, including findings from audits,
inspectors general, and the Government Accountability Office.
The website shall provide data on relevant economic, financial, grant, and contract
information in user-friendly visual presentations to enhance public awareness of the use
of covered funds.
The website shall provide detailed data on contracts awarded by the Federal Government
that expend covered funds, including information about the competitiveness of the
contracting process, information about the process that was used for the award of
contracts, and for contracts over $500,000 a summary of the contract.
The website shall include printable reports on covered funds obligated by month to each
State and congressional district.
The website shall provide a means for the public to give feedback on the performance of
contracts that expend covered funds.
The website shall include detailed information on Federal Government contracts and
grants that expend covered funds, to include the data elements required to comply with
the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-282),
allowing aggregate reporting on awards below $25,000 or to individuals, as prescribed by
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
The website shall provide a link to estimates of the jobs sustained or created by the Act.
The website shall provide a link to information about announcements of grant
competitions and solicitations for contracts to be awarded.
The website shall include appropriate links to other government websites with
information concerning covered funds, including Federal agency and State websites.
The website shall include a plan from each Federal agency for using funds made available
in this Act to the agency.
The website shall provide information on Federal allocations of formula grants and
awards of competitive grants using covered funds.
The website shall provide information on Federal allocations of mandatory and other
entitlement programs by State, county, or other appropriate geographical unit.
To the extent practical, the website shall provide, organized by the location of the job
opportunities involved, links to and information about how to access job opportunities,
including, if possible, links to or information about local employment agencies, job banks
operated by State workforce agencies, the Department of Labor's CareerOneStop
website, State, local and other public agencies receiving Federal funding, and private
firms contracted to perform work with Federal funding, in order to direct job seekers to
job opportunities created by this Act.
The website shall be enhanced and updated as necessary to carry out the purposes of this
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1. Provide easily accessible
information to the public on
Recovery spending and results
2. Promote official data in public
debate
3. Provide fair and open access to
Recovery opportunities
4. Enable public accountability
for Recovery spending
5. Promote an understanding of
the local impact of Recovery
spending
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Recovery.gov Challenges
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Design a website to be used by millions of citizens
Build a data mart to capture, warehouse, and report on data from several federal
and commercial data sets
Implement a geospatial analysis and visualization application to help citizens
understand the local impact of Recovery Act spending
Build and deploy an Enterprise Content Management System
Construct an Enterprise Search capability
Procure and install a large server data center enclave, with state of the art load
balancing, firewalls, switches and Storage Area Network (SAN) technologies
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The Recovery.gov Process
Issue Reporting
Recipients
Visualization
Data
Agencies
Data
Warehouse
Press
Social
Media
To satisfy the requirements of the Recovery Act,
the solution architecture is actually a “system of
systems.”
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The Public
Recipients
Press
Concerned Citizens
Administration
Special Interests
Congress
State and Local Gov
Agencies
RATB
Watchdogs
Academia and NGOs
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Recovery.gov Redeployment
• The aggressive schedule (Physical Infrastructure Delays)
• Test and Development enclaves were procured and ready on
Amazon EC2 within 2 days of contract award on July 14, 2009
• While the physical architecture was being procured and
implemented, the virtual infrastructure on the Cloud was fully built
out in parallel
• The Applications, Data, and Visualization teams had no delays since
they were not dependent on the physical infrastructure
Without Cloud computing the timelines
could not have been achieved
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The Result
Recovery.gov was redeployed on September 28, 2009
“The result is the current incarnation of Recovery.gov—which, as anyone who
has spent significant amounts of time scouring government Web sites for
information will tell you, is perhaps the clearest, richest interactive database
ever produced by the American bureaucracy” –
Andre Romano, Newsweek
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Solution Alternatives
Cloud Feasibility Assessment
Analysis
Feasible
Performance Analysis – Web, Database, Geospatial, Bandwidth, I/O
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Cost Analysis – Elastic Compute, Storage, Bandwidth, Content Distribution
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Timeframe / Scope / Resource Analysis – Level of effort, impact on existing
mission
Risk Analysis – Time, Security, High Availability, Complexity
Gap Analysis – Storage, Backup
Security Analysis – Access Control, Boundary Protection, Data at Rest
Protection, Audit ability
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Why Cloud Computing?
• Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996
• The Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative
– Promote the use of Green IT by reducing the
overall energy and real estate footprint of
government data centers;
– Reduce the cost of data center hardware,
software, and operations;
– Increase the overall IT security posture of the
government; and
– Shift IT investments to more efficient computing
platforms and technologies
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Recovery.gov Technologies
Social Media
Web Infrastructure
Visualization, Analysis,
and Reporting
Data Layer
Infrastructure
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Recovery.gov Cloud Architecture
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Recovery.gov Successful Cloud Move
Recovery.gov was officially launched in
a public cloud on April 26 at 9:48 PM
Our migration to the
cloud took only 22
days from feasibility
study to production
“Recovery.gov is the first government-wide system to move to the cloud... The
Board expects savings of about $750,000 during its current budget cycle and
significantly more savings in the long-term.”
Vivek Kundra, Chief Information Officer – United States
May 13, 2010
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Benefits Gained by Moving to the Cloud
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Removal of physical hosting costs ~$750k over 3 years
Reuse / redistribution of ~ $700k of hardware/software for internal RATB use
No dependence on physical hosting provider:
o Power
o Pipe
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o Database Management
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3 yr Continuation of Operations (COOP) contract vs. 1 yr with no additional costs
First government-wide system to move to the Cloud
No Contract modifications required
Increased flexibility / lower lifecycle costs
Faster provisioning and ability to add capability on demand
Increased performance under high web demand
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The Cloud – Production Solution
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Initial contract called for an identical Continuity/Disaster Recovery site
For the cost of the site, which would rarely be used, the RATB could instead build out a fully redundant,
highly available, and geographically separated solution on the Cloud at a fraction of the cost
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Improved website response times
Improved monitoring capabilities (CloudWatch, etc.)
Enhanced backup and recovery capabilities
Added ability to elastically grow or shrink compute capacity
Enhanced information assurance posture
Significantly lowered the costs of ownership
Repurpose 700k worth of hardware for Fraud, Waste and Abuse mission
Save hundreds of thousands on Data Center costs
Significantly reduce management costs of physical environment
Have an improved level of network access and fault tolerance
Be able to autoscale based on demand
Have a security posture consistent with that of a multi-billion dollar company
Prove that government innovation can save citizen’s money
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Unprecedented Results
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Millions of users access Recovery.gov
One of the largest federal SharePoint sites ever created
One of the largest federal ESRI sites ever created
Several Accolades:
– 2009 Merit award: “Transforming open government from promise to practice”
– 2010 Gold Addy award for website design
– Official Honoree for the Financial Services category in The 14th Annual Webby
Awards
– Award of Distinction during the 16th Annual Communicator Awards
– 2nd place Gold Screen Award from the National Association of Government
Communicators
– Information Week 500 – Federal Innovator of the Year
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March 14, 2012
Recovery Accountability and
Transparency Board
FederalAccountability.gov
Extending the capabilities of the Recovery Operations Center “ROC”