DOD’s Vision for a Commercial Cloud Ecosystem
November 6, 2014
Grazed from FedTechMagazine. Author: Nicole Blake Johnson.
There was a time when Defense Department officials balked at the idea of integrating commercial cloud services with military networks, let alone hosting sensitive data in a contractor-owned facility. But those sentiments are evolving, along with the options DOD is considering for developing a commercial cloud ecosystem for its users.
The department is exploring two private cloud deployment models that would put commercial cloud technologies in DOD data centers or adjacent to them, the Defense Information System Agency noted in a request for information last month. As the entity charged with tracking how DOD operates cloud connection points and what technology is operating across the network, DISA is exploring those models’ viability and whether they warrant a request for proposal to industry…
One option, the Data Center Leasing Model, would enable “market-leading cloud ecosystem vendors to be allocated discrete floor/rack space inside DOD facilities,” including core data centers, according to DISA. Vendors would have to undergo “sufficient security scrutiny and accreditation” before their hardware and software would be cleared to reside in a DOD facility…
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