U.S. Navy Shifting Public Data to Amazon Cloud
March 14, 2014
Grazed from DataCenter Knowledge. Author: Jason Verge.
The U.S. Navy is shifting large amounts of data to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and expects the move to produce huge savings. “We are in the process of putting most of our public-facing data in an Amazon cloud service,” said Terry Halvorsen, the Chief Information Officer of the Department of the Navy, in a keynote at Meritalk’s Data Center Brainstorm event Thursday. Halvorsen said the move could save the Navy as much as 60 percent versus the cost of managing that data in its own data centers.“There is still a place for the data center non-cloud solution,” Halvorsen said. “Getting that balance right is my mission.”
Cloud First
The Navy’s use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest example of how organizations focused on security and compliance are finding ways to use public cloud services. Halvorsen said this is part of a larger shift of IT assets to commercial service providers as agencies seek to slash costs under mandates of the Federal Data Center Consolidation Effort (FDCCI) and the Obama administration’s “Cloud First” focus…
The FDCCI is still very much an ongoing process, and Halvorsen believes it goes much deeper than counting data centers. "In the end, it’s about counting dollars," said Halvorsen, on the consolidation efforts. "I don’t like the word consolidation." Halvorsen prefers the term "Application Kill."…
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