In line with DoD CIO, Army pushes forward with new cloud policy
April 8, 2015
Grazed from Amber Corrin.
In line with broader Defense Department initiatives, the Army expects to soon release a new commercial cloud services provider policy that will outline service-specific acquisition requirements and provide further details about the Army’s growing use of the commercial cloud.
"Transitioning to cloud-based solutions and services advances the Army’s long-term objective to reduce our ownership, operation and sustainment of hardware and other commoditized information technology," Gary Wang, Army deputy CIO/G-6, wrote in an April 2 blog post. "Procuring these capabilities as services will allow the Army to focus resources more effectively to meet evolving mission needs."…
The forthcoming policy, expected "in the coming weeks" per Army sources, will accompany the CIO/G-6’s new cloud computing strategy. The strategy outlines the service’s evolving practices in IT modernization, providing users and potential vendors with a vision of how the Army plans to buy and use commercial IT, particularly cloud…
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