Phase I of the Cloud Pilot is in progress through April 2020
In an effort to establish agile and scalable ground services that improve the efficiency of service deliverables and data ingest from all sources, NESDIS initiated a Cloud Integrated Project Team (IPT) and pilot project. NESDIS will explore the potential of the Cloud to help address its strategic objectives, aligned with NESDIS Reimagined.
The Pilot is designed to develop an enterprise solution in the Cloud that avoids a "lift and shift" of existing stovepipes into the Cloud. This consolidated approach will improve economies of scale and scope while implementing cloud-enabled end-to-end ground service capabilities* that are secure, scalable, lifecycle cost-effective and data source agnostic.
*Ground service capabilities include all satellite product generation capabilities as well as science development and stewardship IT infrastructure support. This includes NESDIS Enterprise - ingest, compute, storage, and dissemination.
Pilot Roadmap
Phase I of the Cloud Pilot is in progress through April 2020
Cloud computing has already been demonstrated as a viable implementation for data ingest, compute, storage, and dissemination via the NEAC approved Secure Ingest Gateway Project (SIGP).
Yet, the adoption of commercial cloud computing fundamentally changes the culture - and change can be challenging. The NESDIS AA determined the Cloud is the future and decided that NESDIS must move more quickly to the Cloud following the Roadmap detailed in Figure 2.
Nonetheless, the final decision for full implementation and or operationalization across all functions of the Cloud is still pending NESDIS leadership approval.
Cloud Summit
2019 NESDIS Cloud Summit Overview
On November 21, 2019, NESDIS held a one-day Cloud Summit dedicated to sharing the technical information and opportunities cloud represents for NOAA. This included information about all Cloud-related projects and activities that are in-flight across the organization.
Within the all-day session featuring eleven presentations from Cloud Vendors, NOAA Partners, Cloud Pilot Teams and the acting NOAA Administrator, Dr. Neil Jacobs - the Cloud Summit was designed to engage NESDIS personnel on the NOAA and NESDIS Cloud strategy and share lessons learned from commercial and government agencies regarding Cloud implementations.
The purpose of the Cloud Summit was:
To facilitate information sharing with leading cloud providers and NOAA partners on cloud adoption in the federal sector;
To outline the NOAA cloud vision and enterprise cloud acquisitions; and
To enable technical interchange on NESDIS cloud pilot activities
Cloud Summit Presentations
All of the presentations presented during the 2019 Cloud Summit are linked via Google Drive. Please feel free to download and share the presentations with colleagues.
- Security and AI on Google Cloud
- Microsoft Azure Security: Protecting Mission-Critical Cloud
- AWS Security and Ground Station Overview
- NASA Earthdata Cloud
- Cloud Computing and AF Weather Cloud Migration Plan: Initial Observations
- USGS: Thoughts on Cloud Migration
- NOAA OCIO Cloud Update
- NESDIS Cloud Activities Update and Discussion
- EPIC and UFS
- HPC NOAA Cloud Evaluation
- NOAA Cloud Vision and Strategy
- NESDIS Cloud Pilot Update: NESDIS Cloud Framework
Cloud Strategy
The NESDIS vision is to implement cloud-enabled end-to-end ground service capabilities that are secure, scalable, life-cycle cost-effective and data-source agnostic.
This strategic document defines the guiding principles for how NESDIS will leverage cloud computing technology the NESDIS Ground Enterprise (NGE).
View the Final NESDIS Cloud Strategy PDF.
Nonetheless, the final decision for full implementation and or operationalization across all functions of the Cloud is still pending NESDIS leadership approval.
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