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* Media Relations Office, 613-670-1626
* Media Relations Office, 613-670-1626
== President (SSC) Speaking Points: [[:en:Stratosphere#Stratosphere|Stratosphere]] - The Government of Canada's Conference on Cloud and DevOps ==
=== Background Information: The Event ===
* The Government of Canada has partnered with the Association of Public Sector Information Professionals (DPI), to host Stratosphere – a conference focused on Cloud and DevOps.
* This conference is an opportunity for participants to share their experiences and lessons learned with their peers, and for the GC IT community to learn about possible partnerships with industry.
=== SSC and TBS ===
* Shared Services Canada and the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat are working together to bring Cloud services to the Government of Canada.
* The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat is responsible for Government of Canada enterprise governance, strategy and policy for Cloud services. This includes oversight and risk assessment of Cloud service requests from departments.
* Under the leadership of TBS, the Government of Canada committed to a government-wide Cloud-First Adoption Strategy in which Cloud is the preferred option for delivering IT services to Canadians.
** This means that departments will use Cloud to store, manage, and process data and applications where possible.
* As part of our mandate on Cloud, SSC has 3 core roles: Broker, Provider, and Enabler.
# '''As a Cloud Broker''', we offer the Cloud Brokering Service for public commercial unclassified supply to Government departments. We will soon be offering the supply for Protected B data.
# '''As a Cloud Provider''', we plan to create additional private supply to complement the public commercial Cloud.
# '''As a Cloud Enabler''', we enable the delivery of foundational services like connectivity and security to enable departments to consume Cloud supply.
* There are currently 26 contracts in place for commercially available unclassified Cloud services available to departments for on-demand consumption, subscription or pre-paid services.
=== Protected B Cloud Services ===
* On September 7, 2018, SSC posted an Invitation to Qualify (ITQ) for Protected B public Cloud services on buysandsell.gc.ca. A number of vendors were pre-qualified as a result.
* The procurement of Cloud for Protected B information responds to increasing demand from departments, enabling them to benefit from tools that are capable of securely storing data in Canada.
* As of June 17, the Government of Canada is ready to receive bids from ITQ qualified respondents for Protected B Cloud services.
* Upon receiving bids, the Government of Canada will evaluate them and begin contract negotiations with the qualified respondents.
* Following these final procurement steps, departments will be able to access Protected B Cloud services through the Government of Canada Cloud Brokering Service.
* We have a number of pilots and projects underway with select departments on migrating their workloads to the Cloud.
=== Statistics Canada ===
* Most recently, Statistics Canada and SSC successfully tested a small subset of users to a secure, fully integrated active directory in the Cloud. Statistics Canada’s active directory is forecasted to be live early this summer.
* With the news of this success travelling, we expect that the other pathfinder departments and other departments in general, will be approaching us to leverage lessons learned to follow suit.
* While SSC has provisioned early connectivity to Cloud Service Providers for some of the pathfinders via existing network connections, SSC is investigating optimal end state connectivity through pilot projects.
=== Enterprise Approach 3.0 ===
* At SSC, we are focusing on putting the “Shared” in Shared Services to enable a digital government. This means embracing an enterprise approach to provide quicker turnarounds, enhance collaboration, increase reliability and reduce risk.
* Cloud computing is a big part of this new approach. The department is focusing on three key priorities:
** Solidifying the IT foundation by increasing network reliability and capacity, and strengthening security;
** Modernizing collaboration tools to enable, engage, and empower employees; and
** Adopting Cloud and enterprise data centers to improve reliability and reduce risk.
* Most of our data is currently stored in aging data centres across the country.
** We are working with our partners to move their content into the hosting solution that meets their needs and one that provides a secure, reliable environment for their applications and data.
** The objective is to have the majority of our data stored in our state-of-the-art EDCs, or in the Cloud, with consistent operating models.
* In terms of workplace tools, the current landscape largely consists of standalone or loosely integrated productivity, communication and collaboration tools such as Skype, and audio/videoconferencing used from desktop devices and/or standalone devices.
** The objective it to get to a point where Cloud-based services are used, leveraging industry standards and practices to interoperate with SSC end-state services and co-exist with legacy components during our transformation.