geo.admin.ch at the EuroCloud Congress in Luxembourg

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swisstopo, the early cloud adopter within the Swiss Public Administration, has started usind cloud services in 2008 and successfully deployed "geo.admin.ch: the Swiss Geoportal" in 2010. The presentation depicts swisstopo's 5 years experience in using cloud services and explains why the "Public Cloud Only" approach has to be extended to an "Open Hybrid Cloud" approach to enable further continued growth and sustainability. On 15th October 2013 geo.admin.ch, the geoportal of the Swiss Confederation has achieved the 2nd place in the EuroCloud Award 2013 in the category of «Best Cloud Service Use Case Public Sector» (the award ceremony took place in the context of the EuroCloud Congress in Luxembourg on October 15th 2013). This award honors the most innovative cloud solution characterized by originality, innovation, creativity and efficiency.

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geo.admin.chthe Swiss Federal Geoportal− 5 years of cloud experience

Hanspeter ChristFederal Office of Topography swisstopo, Switzerland

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Introduction

* Coopers and Lybrand 1996, Economic aspects of the collection, dissemination and integration of government’s geospatial information Published by Ordnance Survey, Southampton, UK.

geo is important

Up to 80% OF ALL DECISIONSaffecting the citizen are

linked to GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION*

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Current state

«geo.admin.ch: the Swiss Federal Geoportal» in figures

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Retrospect

We jumped on the RIGHT TRAIN

at the RIGHT TIME

© Bombardier

© Thomas Stutzwww.eisenbahnfotos.ch

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We jumped on the RIGHT TRAIN

at the RIGHT TIME

© Bombardier

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OPEN SOURCE SOFTWAREin conjunction with the

PUBLIC CLOUDis a real

«INNOVATION ENGINE»

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LAW and CLOUD, a perfect MATCH

…we have a CLOUD-FRIENDLY USE-CASE

GEODATA shall be…

Definition of Cloud Computing, Fraunhofer-Institut, November 2010„Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned at reasonable cost and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.“

IN AN EASY MANNER

MADE AVAILABLERAPIDLY

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AND AT REASONA-BLE COST

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STRENGTHS and LIMITS of the PUBLIC CLOUD

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Outlook

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1 is NOT ENOUGH

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We need an

OPEN HYBRIDCLOUD

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We need an OPEN HYBRID CLOUD

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