Cloud Hosting and The US Defense Industry, Whose Winning the Hearts and Minds of Leadership and Security?
With shrinking budgets many would wonder how the US Defense Department will maintain the infrastructure necessary to sustain the force. IT infrastructure supports everything from the acquisition, logistics and sustainable of something as simple as a bandage to something as complex as an aircraft carrier. It would simply not be possible to look away from the IT resources that have become a critical component of our ability to operate yet the cost of operations has never been higher. The DoD finds itself in a bit of a quandary and many organizations are rushing to consolidate data centers, reduce support or decommission older systems. So what, you might ask, are they to do to weather this storm? I personally believe that the commercial world has the solution, The Cloud, and you better believe that defense contractors are all scrambling to build a show of knowledge and flashy prototypes targeted at courting the fancy of those in the DoD already looking towards this path. One might sugge...