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19-Feb-2013

Open Source ITA’s Role & Experience

Tuesday, February 19, 13

ITA Open Source Support



• ITA supports Open Source adoption in the Government.




• ITA in all its procurements, ensure that we remain open to all technologies and solutions, including Open Source.




• ITA in all its procurements, ensure that we remain open to all technologies and solutions, including Open Source.

• ITA published (June 2010) Oman eGovernment architecture Framework(OeGAF) standards for the whole of Government supports Open Source.


OeGAF Overview


OeGAF Open Source Focus


Open Office/ Software Support



• We have distributed more than 30,000 Open office software as part of the National PC initiative.



• We have distributed more than 30,000 Open office software as part of the National PC initiative.

• Distributed more than 6000 DVD’s with more than 50 open source software during awareness sessions .


ITA’s experience with Open Source Implementation in Oman Government System


ITA Role Overview


ITA Role Overview• ITA’s Governance and Advisory division support

Ministries in various initiatives.


System Background


System Background

7Year Old Production

System


System Background


System

30,000Transactions Per Month


System Background

Performance Issues


System



System Background

Performance Issues Stability Issues


System



System Background

Performance Issues Stability Issues

One of the critical systems of the Nation


System



Way Forward


Way Forward

Detailed study & analysis


Way Forward

Detailed study & analysis

Product Rationalization


Way Forward

Detailed study & analysis Technology

Transformation



Way Forward


Transformation


Cloud Computing


Way Forward


Transformation



Way Forward


Transformation


Private Cloud on Open Source


Infrastructure Platform Software as Service

Cloud Overview

Management Monitoring & Accounting

Virtualization


What were the technology choices we had and why did we use them ?


Requirements

Use of legacy hardware

Lack of vendor lock-in

Live migration of VMs

Resource over-committing for higher efficiency

Ability to run Windows 2003/8

Ability to run Linux OS

Technology Choices


Requirements

Use of legacy hardware

Lack of vendor lock-in

Live migration of VMs


Ability to run Windows 2003/8

Ability to run Linux OS

Technology Choices

VMware ESX MS Hyper-V OpenNode

No No Yes

No No Yes

Yes Yes Yes

Yes, Low

Yes, Windows only.

Yes, High

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes, basic Yes


Requirements VMware ESX MS Hyper-V OpenNode

Use of legacy hardware No No Yes

Lack of vendor lock-in No No Yes

Live migration of VMs Yes Yes Yes


Yes, Low

Yes, Windows only.

Yes, High

Ability to run Windows 2003/8 Yes Yes Yes

Ability to run Linux OS Yes Yes, basic Yes

Blocking Disadvantages


Open Node- Cloud Management


RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 compliant open-source Project.




Fully Open Source &Industry standard virtualization solution





Compatible with most of the existing hardware





CNR (National Research

Council of Italy)

Tier2 of CERN CMS, one of the largest Baltic data centersCompatible with most of the existing hardware



Relative distribution of OpenNode deployments in the world

Open Node Adoption


FULL CONTAINER

Operating System Can run any OS Only OS of the same type as Host

Disk IO Overhead High Low

Over Commit Efficiency Low High

Live Migration Complicated Easy

Snapshoting Complicated Easy

Hypervisor & Virtualization Technology


FULL CONTAINER

Operating System Can run any OS Only OS of the same type as Host

Disk IO Overhead High Low

Over Commit Efficiency Low High

Live Migration Complicated Easy

Snapshoting Complicated Easy

System in Discussion KVM (Linux-based kernel) Open VZ (Linux HV)

Hypervisor & Virtualization Technology


Open Source AdoptionSummary


Open Source Adoption

Component Earlier

Application Server WAS 5.1

Database Oracle

Content Management DB2 CM

Reporting Crystal Reports



Component Earlier


Database Oracle



Now

WAS 6.1

Oracle

File System

Jasper Reports



Component Earlier


Database Oracle



Cloud Nil Open NodeKVM/OpenVZ

HTTP Server/Load Balancing

IBM Http Server Nginx

Clustering RAC/HACMP Red Hat Cluster Suite

System Monitoring IBM Director Console Zabbix

Now

WAS 6.1

Oracle

File System

Jasper Reports


We could have


Open Source and Cloud computing



• Cloud Computing which is new in Oman we are taking a simplistic and cost effective approach.




Business Area ImprovementFront office 14%Back office 20%



Before AfterHardware Support Costs X 1/6 XSoftware Renewal Cost Y ½ Y





Before AfterHardware Support Costs X 1/6 XSoftware Renewal Cost Y ½ Y

• Based on the comfort level, upskilling of local resources we may decide to move the whole stack to Open Source.




ITA Open-Source up skilling programs

Track Intended Audience

Specialist Certification Track • TTT: (Academics and instructors from HEI).• ITI: (IT Individuals/specialist, developers,

advanced students).

Specialist Non-Certification Track • Developers, IT programming students.

End Users Track • TTT: (Trainers from public and private institutes+ Instructors\trainers from HE institutions)

• EUT: Students & interested individuals.

For more details you may contact [email protected]


mailto:[email protected]


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Capacity Building- Resources Trained


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= 118Junior Level Advanced Level

= 12

GIMP

= 300

School IT Teachers

= 112

Capacity Building- Resources Trained

Total=542


Other Activities

– Partnered with 4 educational institutes.

– Established 3 Labs for Open Source Developments

– Conducted 51 workshops.

– Initiated Open Source Clubs in the Educational institutions.

– Partnered with Societies (Information Technology- Educational Technology).


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ITA & Open Source


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Awareness

ITA & Open Source


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Awareness Capacity Building

ITA & Open Source


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Support

ITA & Open Source


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SupportDevelopment &

Deployment

ITA & Open Source


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We are taking a holistic approach



Deployment

ITA & Open Source


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We are taking a holistic approach

In fact even implemented a large scale project using Open Source.



Deployment

ITA & Open Source


Thank YouDileesh Suseelan

B.Engg(Comp Science ),MBA,PMP, ITIL,TOGAF,COBIT,CBCI

[email protected]@ita.gov.om




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