DoD May Invite Cloud Vendors Into Govt. Data Centers

InformationWeek: The US Department of Defense is exploring the idea of having commercial cloud vendors use secure DoD data centers and facilities to deliver private cloud services to the military.

The goal, explained in a just-published Request for Information document, is to put in place an ecosystem that will allow the DoD to take advantage of commercial cloud computing technologies while ensuring the level of security needed to run highly sensitive workloads.

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