Carpathia Hosting Overview - Digital Government Institute

Carpathia Hosting Overview
Joe Cudby
Director of Engineering
09.22.2011
Digital Government Institute Cloud-Enabled Government Conference
Washington, DC
Carpathia Hosting
Leaders in Complex, Compliant Hosting
• Complex and Compliant Hosting: Colocation, Managed Services and
Federal Cloud (Managing 1% of internet traffic and over 40 Petabytes of storage)
• Large Federal Base: Service to hundreds of agency systems to include DoD,
Intelligence and Civilian Agencies
• Over 25 Authorization to Operate (ATO) on all required systems
• Documented Security Policies and Procedures that map to NIST
800-53 and DIACAP 8500.2 Controls
• Significant Data Center Footprint: Diverse Data Center Strategy
• Active Top Secret Clearance
• Supporting Multiple Private Agency Connections
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Federal Cloud Opportunity is Significant
Carpathia Delivering the Cloud for 2 of 12 GSA IaaS Cloud Awards
Cloud First
Initiative
GSA IaaS Cloud
Data Center
Mandate
GSA IaaS Cloud
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Sample Customer Portfolio
Enterprises & Federal Agencies
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Trends in Carpathia “Cloud customers”
• Early adopters “outgrowing” Amazon EC2
More Consistent performance
More Control
• “Own the base, rent the spikes”*
Not the cloud provider message
Dedicated Virtualized infrastructures “Base”
Provide the capability to burst into our multi-tenant cloud “Spikes”
• Specialized “Community” cloud
Primarily HIPAA customers
Contractually BAA / Covered Entities (CE)
*Jens Lapinski
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Carpathia’s Approach
• Apply our core strategy to the cloud – Complex customers,
compliant solutions
• Take advantage of our service delivery heritage – E3™ Promise
• Get intimate with customers, understand business. Help them
achieve goals. No failed cloud deployments
• Engage with like-minded partners vs. supply chain optimization
• Innovate in government cloud, back port to commercial
• Build a platform that can be deployed in a variety of agencies
(Civ, DoD, and Intel) and locations
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The Future of Hosting
Complex Hosting
Compliant Hosting
Carpathia Hosting
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