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This presentation was made to the Technology in Government Conference in Canberra on 5 Aug 14. It reviews the progress of cloud computing adoption and launches a discussion paper on the planned Cloud Services Panel. Discussion of the panel can be found at http://www.finance.gov.au/category/agcto
Heading for the clouds
Published on Nov 18, 2015
An update on cloud computing in the Australian Government, focussing on the planned cloud services panel
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Heading for the cloudS
An update on #AusGovIT
This presentation was made to the Technology in Government Conference in Canberra on 5 Aug 14. It reviews the progress of cloud computing adoption and launches a discussion paper on the planned Cloud Services Panel. Discussion of the panel can be found at http://www.finance.gov.au/category/agcto
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Building our own?
The case for a panel
The cost of building a government owned cloud is too expensive. Government would need to build two tier three data centres, geographically separated, in Canberra, maintained for probably 12-15 years, with 5 yearly technology refreshes, etc. Previous Finance analysis shows that this is not cost effective.
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Picking a winner
Is the market mature?
Our assessment is that the cloud market, internationally and nationally, is not sufficiently mature to ensure that we could pick a single cloud provider now, noting that such a contract would probably need to run 5-7 years, and be satisfied that such a provider would stay at the leading edge of the market in both the technology and commercial senses to ensure the model would work.
For example, Amazon has dropped its cloud prices 42 times in eight years http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2014/3/27/technology/amazon-drops-...
Technology is also changing - the graph shows a portion of Google's average PUE improvement over time - https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/internal/
For example, Amazon has dropped its cloud prices 42 times in eight years http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2014/3/27/technology/amazon-drops-...
Technology is also changing - the graph shows a portion of Google's average PUE improvement over time - https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/internal/
This is what we're looking for
Cloud Services Panel
The Cloud Services Panel concept builds on the success of the Data Centre as a Service Multi Use List(http://www.finance.gov.au/policy-guides-procurement/data-centres/data-centr...)
The panel mechanism has proven successful at achieving savings for government while streamlining procurement.
The panel mechanism has proven successful at achieving savings for government while streamlining procurement.
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Starting Small
Data Centre as a Service MUL
The DCaaS MUL has over 100 vendors and 1500 services available. In less than 2 years, it has supported more than 30 contracts for a total of over $1.5m, despite having a contract limit of $80k.
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Floating an idea
Cloud Services Panel Discussion Paper
Cloud Procurement Discussion Paper released today for comments by COB 19 August
Objectives of the procurement
· Provide simple access to cloud procurement for government agencies
· Support a flexible, agile and competitive marketplace for cloud services
Objectives of the procurement
· Provide simple access to cloud procurement for government agencies
· Support a flexible, agile and competitive marketplace for cloud services
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proposed approach
- Open RFT 3Q14
- Panel operational December 2014
- Not mandatory
- Term: 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1
- No contract limts - $ or time
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What are we looking for?
Panel Scope
Scope of the Panel
· Cloud service models as defined by NIST (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
· Cloud Specialists
Out of Scope
· Services do not meet the NIST definition of cloud
· Services or products covered by whole of government coordinated procurement
· Cloud service models as defined by NIST (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
· Cloud Specialists
Out of Scope
· Services do not meet the NIST definition of cloud
· Services or products covered by whole of government coordinated procurement
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INPUT WANTED
- Iterative refresh and adding services
- Just in time insurance
- Liability cap contract by contract
- Funding model
- Statement of Requirement
Feedback Sought
We want to hear your views on the following points proposed in the paper:
· An iterative approach of refreshing the panel
· Flexibility in adding categories and suppliers
· Just in time insurance
· Liability cap set on a contract by contract basis
· Funding model
· Statement of Requirement
· Sample evaluation scenarios
We want to hear your views on the following points proposed in the paper:
· An iterative approach of refreshing the panel
· Flexibility in adding categories and suppliers
· Just in time insurance
· Liability cap set on a contract by contract basis
· Funding model
· Statement of Requirement
· Sample evaluation scenarios
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Initial Categories
- SaaS - CRM, ERP, ITSM, Productivity
- PaaS - App Deployment, Web Hosting
- IaaS - Compute, Storage
- Specialist cloud services
To help manage the expected response to the panel, we will be seeking services from a limited number of categories initially and expanding these over time.
As well as the 'as a Service' categories, we will also be seeking vendors who can supply specialist cloud services such as advice on, design of, and deployment to the cloud.
As well as the 'as a Service' categories, we will also be seeking vendors who can supply specialist cloud services such as advice on, design of, and deployment to the cloud.
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CHANGING THE RULES
PROSPECTIVE CLOUD POLICY CHANGES
Expecting changes in information storage policy and Australian Government cloud policy shortly.
Reflecting eGovernment and Digital Economy Policy pre-election commitments (http://lpaweb-static.s3.amazonaws.com/Coalition%27s%20Policy%20for%20E-Gove...)
Includes work on critical data trial being done by Finance
Reflecting eGovernment and Digital Economy Policy pre-election commitments (http://lpaweb-static.s3.amazonaws.com/Coalition%27s%20Policy%20for%20E-Gove...)
Includes work on critical data trial being done by Finance
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