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.

1. geo.admin.ch
the Swiss Federal Geoportal
− 5 years of cloud experience
Hanspeter Christ
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Switzerland

2. Introduction
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3. Up to 80% OF ALL DECISIONS
affecting the citizen are linked to
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION*
geo is important
* Coopers and Lybrand 1996, Economic aspects of the collection, dissemination and integration of
government’s geospatial information
Published by Ordnance Survey, Southampton, UK.
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14. Current state
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15. «geo.admin.ch: the Swiss Federal Geoportal»
in figures
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16. Retrospect
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17. We jumped on the RIGHT TRAIN
© Thomas Stutz
www.eisenbahnfotos.ch
© Bombardier
at the RIGHT TIME
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18. We jumped on the RIGHT TRAIN
© Bombardier
at the RIGHT TIME
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19. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
in conjunction with the
PUBLIC CLOUD
is a real
«INNOVATION ENGINE»
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20. LAW and CLOUD, a perfect MATCH
GEODATA shall be…
RAPIDLY
MADE
AVAILABLE
IN AN EASY
MANNER
AND AT
REASONABLE COST
…we have a CLOUD-FRIENDLY USE-CASE
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.“
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21. STRENGTHS and LIMITS of the PUBLIC CLOUD
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22. Outlook
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23. 1
is
NOT ENOUGH
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24. We need an
OPEN HYBRID
CLOUD
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25. We need an OPEN HYBRID CLOUD
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