Army Makes Cloud Email Migration

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Richard M. Walker.

After years of stumbling along in fits and starts, the Army’s migration to an enterprise-wide email system is nearly complete. Most Army users can now access their email securely from anywhere in the world at any time. Officials said Wednesday that more than 1.4 million Army users have migrated onto the unclassified NIPRNet and 115,000 users onto the classified SIPRNet, completing "the bulk" of the Army’s move to the system, called DOD Enterprise Email (DEE).

The Army’s adoption of the system is the first phase of a Defense Department-wide move to a private cloud hosted by the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Defense Enterprise Computing Centers. Under Department of Defense (DOD) goals, the system will eventually support 4.5 million users across the department…

Officials expect DEE to improve operational effectiveness, security and efficiency, saving the Army $76 million in fiscal year 2013 and $380 million through 2017. Before migration, the Army expended considerable resources managing and securing disparate legacy email systems, officials said…

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