What the FAA’s $100 million cloud investment means for the industry
September 7, 2015
Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Brian Brinker.
In a big move earlier this week, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) inked a deal worth more than a hundred million dollars with Computer Sciences Corporation to provide cloud computing services. The deal generated quite a bit of news coverage earlier this week, but we want to take a moment to explain why this is such a big development and what it could mean for the cloud computing industry.
Over the past few years the Federal government has emerged as one of the most aggressive proponents of cloud technologies, and numerous federal agencies have begun to move data and services into the cloud. It should come as no surprise then that the Federal Aviation Authority has a big interest in cloud computing…
When it comes to air safety, speed and coordination are essential and cloud computing makes it easy for teams and people to coordinate over vast distances. This helps explain why the FAA just forked over $108 million dollars to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to handle the federal agency’s cloud computing needs…
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