The US Federal Aviation Administration’s hybrid cloud plans take flight with help from CSC
September 2, 2015
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Caroline Donnelly.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected IT services firm CSC to oversee its plans to downsize its datacentres and migrate its systems to the hybrid cloud. The $108m deal is set to last 10 years and will see CSC contracted to help the FAA consolidate its datacentre estate, migrate its data and systems off-premise and provide it with access to a range of cloud services from the likes of Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The FAA is the US body responsible for safe-guarding America’s aerospace and running its air traffic control operations. The FAA said in a statement that downsizing its datacentre footprint and moving more of its IT to the cloud will help the organisation save money and become more flexible…
“Being in the cloud will give the FAA on-demand, pay-per-use computing and data storage over a secure FTI [federal telecommunications infrastructure] connection,” the statement said…
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