DoD Sets Ambitious Cloud Goals
July 16, 2015
Grazed from e-CommerceTimes. Author: John K. Higgins.
The U.S. Defense Department, often cited as a bit sluggish in taking advantage of the benefits of cloud computing, appears now to be emerging as a government leader in adopting the technology. In the short run, DoD has far outpaced other federal agencies in setting up cloud contracts. During the first quarter of fiscal 2015, the value of all federal contracts for cloud projects amounted to US$668 million, of which the overwhelming amount, $531 million, was attributed to the Defense Department.
The DoD upsurge in 2015 versus 2014 "is largely attributable to the award of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Enterprise Storage Solutions II contract, which calls for a hybrid cloud data storage service, with vendors supplying hardware housed in the agency’s data centers," said Alex Rossino, a research analyst at Deltek…
DISA will use this hybrid private cloud to store sensitive data, while the commercial cloud portion of the infrastructure will store unclassified data. p> "Ironic, isn’t it, considering the impression in the market that the DoD is dragging its feet when it comes to the cloud," Rossino noted…
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