CIO of Defense Department Agency Cautions Against Rush to Cloud

Grazed from CIO. Author: Kenneth Corbin.

For all the enthusiasm surrounding the government’s move to the cloud – and there’s no shortage – one prominent federal CIO is emphatic that cloud computing, for all its virtues, is no panacea for the government’s technology challenges. That would be David Bennett, CIO at the Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA.

At a government IT conference hosted by the tech consortium MeriTalk, Bennett acknowledged that "the cloud is a very viable scenario" for the feds, but he urges CIOs and other agency leaders to carefully consider which data sources and applications are suitable for a remotely hosted and managed environment…

"Everybody’s looking at cloud as being the answer to all issues," Bennett says, "but we need to understand what it means to start to leverage the cloud as we go forward." Bennett identifies many obstacles to the government’s adoption of cloud technologies – perhaps none more important in his agency than the security concerns associated with turning over sensitive processes over to a third-party provider. "Are we going to take everything to the cloud?" he asks. "My sense of the game is no, we won’t."…

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