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Public Sector Cloud Computing Case Study: DOE
Department of Energy (Lawrence Berkeley National Labs) – Cloud Computing Migration
Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer
The Department of Energy is exploring cost and energy efficiencies that can result from leveraging cloud computing. This initiative explores how to use cloud computing to address needs across the enterprise, in specific business services, and in scientific study. Although started in 2009, these efforts at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBL) are already showing promise.
LBL has already deployed over 2,300 mailboxes on Google Federal Premier Apps, and will end up with 5,000 e-mail accounts deployed by August 2010. This solution uses a LBL Identity Management System to provide authentication. Additionally, Google Docs and Google Sites have already been deployed and are being used by small and medium-sized scientific research teams to foster collaboration and community documentation.
Presently, LBL is evaluating the use of Amazon’s EC2 to handle excess capacity for mid-range computers during peak usage periods. LBL is also investigating the use of a federated identity to provide access for the scientific community to a wide range of cloud computing offerings. LBL estimates they will save $1.5 million over the next five years in hardware, software and labor costs from the deployments they have already made.1,2
1 Department of Energy Office of the Chief Information Officer, May 2010.
2 Lawrence Berkeley National Labs Office of the Chief Information Officer, May 2010.
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