Cloud Security Frees Up NOAA’s Workforce
March 14, 2014
Grazed from NexGov. Author: Aliya Sternstein.
Sometimes consolidation can be a good thing for the federal workforce. Centralizing networks in the cloud has allowed human eyes at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to weed through 1.2 billion cyber transactions per day for signs of hacking. Typically, federal executives name cost and energy savings as the main perks of shutting down government data centers and shipping operations to the Web.
"We ultimately will save not only money in terms of our electricity bill — we’ll have better security and better safety," said Darren Smith, who manages the 5 megawatt NOAA Environmental Security Computing Center, home to a supercomputer called Zeus that models weather and climate changes…
He was speaking at a conference in Washington hosted by MeriTalk, a public-private partnership that works to heighten the efficacy of federal information technology. Poor security is sometimes seen as the downside of cloud computing. Agencies fear losing control of their information when it is stored remotely, whether in an Amazon server farm or a different government office. But that is changing…
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