Department of the Interior to give employees anywhere, anytime, any device access via cloud
November 9, 2012
Grazed from GCN. Author: Rutrell Yasin.
The Interior Department is working to give employees access to IT resources anywhere, anytime with any device enabled by cloud computing through DOI’s data center consolidation initiative. “I view cloud computing as helping us meet the needs of our dispersed workforce,” said Interior CIO Bernard Mazer.
With 2,400 locations, DOI is all over the place, Mazer noted. “We are there where [telecommunications] carriers are; we are there where carriers aren’t,” he said. As a result, DOI has to use a variety of tools to ensure that employees are supported no matter where they are located – in a refuge, a Bureau of Land Management office, a Bureau of Indian Affairs’ project or a national park in a remote hinterland. This support also includes access to the business applications associated with contract, financial and human resource management systems…
Mazer spoke to an audience of government and industry representatives at a Nov. 8 briefing held by FCW and other technology companies on how data center design and cloud computing are transforming agency operations. Mazer gave a brief overview of four areas that highlight Interior’s progress with the cloud, an on-demand approach to pooling and sharing computing resources:..
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