Defense Department Deploys Secure Cloud Service

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Henry Kenyon.

The Department of Defense (DOD) is rolling out a new cloud computing service as part of its ongoing efforts to trim IT costs and provide more streamlined services to its military and civilian users. The service, called MilCloud, provides an integrated suite of capabilities, including the ability for users to configure infrastructure resources and manage applications on a self-service basis.

Developed by the Defense Information Systems Agency, the DOD agency responsible for managing the military’s communications infrastructure, MilCloud represents the latest effort by DOD to reduce IT costs. But DISA officials also claim the service will provide agencies with more flexibility and control over how they manage their computing environments…

The cloud service also helps DISA improve IT security safeguards by standardizing how classified and unclassified data are processed and stored. "MilCloud allows us to… integrate various applications at the CDC [core data center] level," DISA’s chief of staff, brigadier general Frederick Henry, said last week at an annual event for government and industry executives that do business with the military…

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