FBI seeks information about cloud services to store criminal justice data
July 16, 2014
Grazed from FierceGovernmentIT. Author: Henry Kenyon.
The FBI is seeking commercial cloud-computing options that can store vast amounts of criminal justice data. In a recent request for information, the bureau said it wants an on-site, infrastructure-as-a-service, "cloud in a box" system to support the Criminal Justice Information Services division in Clarksburg, W.Va., at multiple locations across the country.
In the request, the FBI said the system capabilities should include rent processing, storage, networks and other computing resources such as operating systems and applications. The cloud infrastructure would be run by a commercial provider, but its physical components such as servers would reside at FBI facilities. The bureau would also retain control over any "operating systems, storage, deployed applications, and networking components such as firewalls and load balancers."…
The infrastructure should also provide a common-cloud based system that includes the use of virtualization, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, service usage metrics, self-service portals, auditing/continuous monitoring, chargeback reporting and centrally managed multi-site operations…
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