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Disaster Recovery in GIS:FME Cloud Server Saves the DayLou ManglassGISP

What’s This All About, Then?

▪ The scope of this presentation is total loss of a datacenter/operation

▪ The goal is to establish basic operations but a discussion of Business Continuity is out of scope

▪ We’ll look at additional leverage provided by the recovery solution

▪ Questions▪ Interesting presentation from Georgia Power!

Worst-Case Scenario

Don’t Panic!!!

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Cloud and/or multi-site redundancy?

Both may be better!

Cloud▪ Little to maintain▪ Geographically

redundant▪ Scales quickly▪ No assets▪ Easy to include

partner agencies

Multiple Sites▪ Operating space for

displaced employees▪ Not Internet reliant▪ Predictable cost▪ Can build partnerships▪ High bandwidth

(Sneakernet)

FME Server: On-Site Or Cloud!

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Either way:

YOU WIN!

Settle for noemutations!

Our Sample Use Case

● Athens-Clarke County: population 116,000● Data will come in from and support multiple

departments/agencies (Planning, Assessor, Fire, PD, UGA, Traffic Engineering, Dispatch, State and Federal agencies)

● Multi-site agency● Agencies and partners (such as utility

organizations) should be able to submit data● Metadata should be captured● Technicians will analyze data● Customers need actionable data products

Data Reconstruction Workflow

OptionalWeb Interface

FME Server API/Web Interface

FME Workspaces

Amazon Cloud DB(RDS for

PostgreSQL

OptionalWeb Mapping

(OpenGeo)

Advantages of a Web interface

▪ Abstract and centralize access (S3 IAM keys, FME Cloud API keys, web interface roles)

▪ Simplify workflows for users, who may be untrained

▪ Spin up entire DR stack on demand▪ Branding/Organizational Identification▪ No resources required on-premises (which is

gone, remember?)

FME Server Interface:Easy Peasy

Core FME Workspace

Posting to PostGIS

Interfaces and Users

▪ Admins▪ Standard admin tools (over SSH, etc.)

▪ Anaylsts▪ FME Desktop▪ ESRI ArcGIS▪ Intergraph GeoMedia▪ QGIS

▪ Consumers▪ ESRI ArcGIS Server▪ OpenGeo Stack▪ Custom webapps

Boundless OpenGeo Suite...

...Also available on AWS!

Access Management

AWS Security Groups/Firewall

Deployment

TL;DL: FME Cloud Server Saves the Day!▪ Up and running faster than you can move to your

backup site▪ AWS scales to meet massive data needs▪ Inexpensive: FME Cloud Server starts at $1/hour!▪ With APIs, whole process can be automated▪ All stakeholders can easily submit data which is

robustly served to all customers▪ Can be part of an existing data continuity plan▪ Provides opportunities for other business units,

providing organization-wide leverage

Thank You!

▪ Questions?

▪ For more information:▪ Lou Manglass: louis@manglass.net▪ twitter.com/LouManglass▪ plus.google.com/+LouManglass▪ www.linkedin.com/in/LouManglass