首席信息官 Christine Serrette 详细介绍了德国联邦信息技术中心的云迁移过程，这是多步骤计划的一部分。
为了避免落入遗留应用程序的陷阱，德国联邦信息技术中心（ITZBund）很早就认识到要执行面向未来的云环境，联邦政府首席信息官兼副技术总监Christine Serrette说。ITZBund 充当联邦政府的中央 IT 服务提供商，并在运输、预算、税收、内部安全和集成等领域运营广泛的关键流程。因此，云优先是该中心的三个战略目标之一，此外还有敏捷的工作方法和联邦客户，这是评估投标和合同授予的事件报告工具。
一、联邦云和联邦运营平台
Serrette 说，通往云的道路始于 2016 年联邦云的创建，ITZBund 将其用于联邦电子文件、协作场景以及项目管理和开发平台。
在此过程中，创建了联邦运营平台，这是一个分为不同安全级别的私有云环境。“2022 年，我们获得了 BSI 对该云的世界上第一个 VS-NfD 批准和基本保护认证，”她说，谈到仅供官方使用的机密信息的批准，这是当局四个保密级别中最低的。
下一个开发项目称为 Bundescloud 2.0，其中包括在不失去 BSI 认证的情况下升级到新的私有云平台。
“但我们也很现实，并且知道我们长期拥有私有云，因为我们无法按照市场发展的方式发展，”她说。在这种背景下，创建了一个程序，旨在进一步将 ITZBund 发展为多云管理器。该计划分配了几个关键项目，包括 BC 业务转型、多云平台、联邦云 2.0 和 MS 主权云，作为转型的一部分，Serrette 希望调整和重新设计内部流程和与客户的互动。“订购、采购、供应和计费流程必须从根本上改变，”她说。
多云平台项目旨在创建多云管理的技术要求。除了现有的联邦云外，ITZBund还在自己的数据中心构建外部云，该云将由服务提供商运营和进一步开发。Serrette还希望在未来使用由SAP等外部提供商提供的主权云服务。“对于不需要特殊保护的数据和应用程序，我们将使用公有云，”她说。
然而，这方面的障碍是相当大的。例如，ITZBund 必须开发一个复杂的系统来管理不同的 IT 级别并创建公开招标。Serrette 的团队还为多云管理计划制定了营销和沟通策略。
二、价值主张
Serrette 强调，她和她的团队为客户提供了一条快速的数字化之路。“我们可以快速灵活地采取行动，在短时间内提供服务，并同样迅速地拆除它们，”她说。在此基础上，向各部委和当局提供了一系列重要服务，包括联邦电子档案、培训系统以及开发和项目管理平台。利用容器平台，ITZBund还支持《在线访问法》（OZG）背景下的项目，该法案构成了德国数字现代化的法律基础，并通过行政门户规范了数字化行政服务。
英文原文：
Germany’s ITZBund is moving federal IT into the cloud
CIO Christine Serrette details the German federal center for information technology’s cloud migration process as part of a multi-step plan.
In order to avoid falling into the trap of legacy applications, Germany’s federal center for Information Technology, the ITZBund, recognized early to execute a future-oriented cloud landscape, says Christine Serrette, the federal administration’s CIO and deputy technical director. The ITZBund acts as a central IT service provider for the federal administration and operates a wide range of critical processes in the areas of transport, budget, taxes, internal security, and integration, for example. Cloud first is, therefore, one of the center’s three strategic goals, alongside agile working methods and Federal Client, the incident reporting tool, which evaluates bids and award of contracts.
1. Federal cloud and federal operating platform
The path to the cloud began in 2016 with the creation of the Federal Cloud, Serrette says, and the ITZBund uses it for the federal e-file, collaboration scenarios, and as a project management and development platform.
During the course of this, the Federal Operating Platform was created, a private cloud environment divided into various security levels. “In 2022, we received the world’s first VS-NfD approval and basic protection certification from the BSI for this cloud,” she says, speaking of approval for classified information for official use only, which is the lowest of four levels of secrecy for authorities.
The next development is called Bundescloud 2.0 and includes, among other things, the upgrade to new private cloud platforms without losing the BSI certification.
“But we are also realistic and know we have our private cloud for the long term since we can’t develop the way the market is developing,” she says. Against this background, a program was created intended to further develop the ITZBund into a multicloud manager. Several key projects are assigned to this program including BC Business Transformation, Multi-Cloud Platform, Federal Cloud 2.0, and MS Sovereign Cloud, and part of the transformation, Serrette wants to adapt and redesign both the internal processes and the interaction with customers. “Ordering, procurement, provision, and billing processes must be fundamentally changed,” she says.
The Multi-Cloud Platform project is designed to create the technical requirements for multi-cloud management. In addition to the existing Federal Cloud, the ITZBund is also building an external cloud in its own data centers, which will be operated and further developed by service providers. Serrette also wants to use services from a sovereign cloud in the future, offered by external providers such as SAP. “For data and applications that don’t require special protection, we’ll use public cloud,” she says.
However, the hurdles for this are considerable. For example, the ITZBund has to develop a sophisticated system to manage the different IT levels and create public tenders. Serrette’s team also developed a marketing and communications strategy for the multicloud management program.
2. Value proposition
Serrette emphasizes that she and her team offer customers a quick path to digitalization. “We can act quickly and flexibly, make services available at short notice, and dismantle them just as quickly,” she says. On this basis, ministries and authorities are offered a range of important services, including the federal e-file, training systems, and the development and project management platforms. Using container platforms, the ITZBund also supports projects in the context of the Online Access Act (OZG), which forms the legal basis for Germany’s digital modernization, and regulates digitizing administrative services through administrative portals.
