IBM brings U.S. military logistics into the hybrid cloud
April 9, 2015
Grazed from TheStack. Author: Martin Anderson.
IBM has announced that it is providing hybrid cloud solutions to the U.S. Army’s logistics system – one of the biggest of its kind in the United States. The army’s Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA) division has migrated to an on-premise IBM-supplied hybrid cloud environment handling 40 million data transactions daily, and claims to have achieved cost savings of 50% with the new arrangement.
LOGSA houses the Logistics Information Warehouse (LIW), a military depositary for logistics data which employs business and analytics tools to provide logistics information to over 65,000 end-users and 150 trading partners worldwide. General Manager for U.S. Federal at IBM Anne Altman said in the report:…
“The Army not only recognized a trend in IT that could transform how they deliver services to their logistics personnel around the world, they also implemented a cloud environment quickly and are already experiencing significant benefits,” and continued “They’re taking advantage of the inherent benefits of hybrid cloud: security and the ability to connect it with an existing IT system. It also gives the Army the flexibility to incorporate new analytics services and mobile capabilities,”…
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