http://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinjackson/2011/10/17/its-official-us-intelligence-community-is-moving-to-the-cloud/ By Kevin L. Jackson Forbes.com 10/17/2011 Today at the GEOINT 2011 Symposium in San Antonio, TX, Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper told the almost 4000 attendees that the United States Intelligence Community will use cloud computing as a tool to meet aggressive budget reduction targets. As heard by my own ears and verified by AOL Defense: “The biggest portion of those cuts, spread across 10 years, will come from anything labeled information technology….Cloud computing — while not a panacea — makes possible much of those savings.” Director National Security Agency and head of Cyber Command General Keith Alexander echoed the DNI’s comment stating that NSA operations will move to the cloud by the end of this year. “Moving to the cloud, will provide huge savings of 30 percent to 40 percent savings in the NSA’s IT budget…. Moving to the cloud enables better security in some respects, for example, because all systems receive all security patches at the same time. It also removes updating systems from the hands of a large number of humans, making it more certain they will happen.” [...] _____________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Wed Oct 19 2011 - 03:12:05 PDT
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