Richard Spires, CIO of DHS, provided written testimony on 12 services that they have moved to the cloud. The first service often moved to the cloud is email, which DHS has started by putting FEMA’s email to the cloud. They have 8 private clouds already set up, and 3 services in the public clouds.
The private cloud services are below:
- SharePoint as a Service – “We are currently migrating Headquarters and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) users to our secure collaboration program.”
- Development and Test as a Service – “Establishing development and test offerings in the cloud will have tremendous positive impact on DHS. Currently, DHS has multiple development environments spread across the department and industry locations.”
- Infrastructure as a Service – “Complementary to the Development and Test as a Service offering is our Infrastructure as a Service offering to provide virtualized production services, including operating systems, network, and storage, that is consistent with new industry standards.”
- Workplace as a Service – “We are working closely with the Department’s other line-of-business chiefs to modernize how DHS employees work. This offering will provide robust virtual desktop, remote access, and other mobile services over the next 24 months.”
- Project Server as a Service – “This offering will provide a robust project management platform to publish project schedules that can more easily be shared across offices, divisions, and components.”
- Authentication as a Service – “This service eliminated the need for duplicative authentication services, while significantly enhancing the department’s information sharing needs.”
- Case and Relationship Management as a Service – “This offering, leveraging Enterprise License Agreements (ELAs), will better enable CRM and case workflows across DHS.”
- Business Intelligence as a Service – “The department will leverage this current offering to enhance transparency into departmental programming and expenditures. By the end of FY12, we expect the department will have visibility to information sources across the investment lifecycle, including IT, financial, human resources, asset management, and other information sources.”
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