Private Cloud

3 key advantages of on-premises object storage over public cloud

Despite what many organizations have assumed, the public cloud is not the best option for all workloads and use cases.

  • By Jon Toor

ARL seeks private cloud to modernize IT infrastructure

The Army Research Laboratory is looking for industry input on how to migrate its current data centers to a cloud environment.

  • By Sara Friedman

NASA sails to the cloud with AWS, open source, migration

NASA migrated 110 websites and applications to the cloud in a technology overhaul that included using open source tools such as the Drupal content management system and Ubuntu.

  • By John Moore

DISA approves AWS for more sensitive workloads

The Defense Information Systems Agency authorized Amazon Web Services as the first commercial cloud approved at “security impact levels” 3-5 for highly sensitive workloads.

  • By GCN Staff

Do you have a cloud exit strategy? Here’s one clear path.

Open, hybrid clouds are a way for agencies to avoid getting locked in to cloud services and stay ready for the next breakthrough.

  • By Gunnar Hellekson

Ohio undoing decades of IT sprawl with shared infrastructure

The state is putting its IT assets into a primary data center and will use a private cloud infrastructure to deliver services.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

Amazon making virtual private clouds standard for customers

AWS is making access automatic for new users; existing customers, including many in the public sector, will have to start a new account or launch services in a new region.

  • By Kevin McCaney

5 steps to a secure, multitenant private cloud

As agencies move toward consolidated, unified data centers and private clouds, Cisco offers an outline on how to get there.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

DARPA takes multipronged approach to securing military's cloud

As DOD moves into cloud computing, pilots and projects look to assess risk and develop multiple layers of network defense.

  • By Kathleen Hickey

Small city breaks new ground as service provider

Melrose, Mass., learned a lesson about bandwidth while providing cloud-based services to a smaller town.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

Oregon rides cloud to statewide records management system

The state is expanding a SaaS system using HP TRIM to give access to state, county and local agencies.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

Logistics takes the point with Marines' modernization

The U.S. Marine Corps uses federated cloud techniques to speed delivery of supplies to the front, sometimes shortening response to a matter of minutes.

  • By Brian Robinson
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