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DoD puts 1 million users in its cloud email system

The Army expects to mostly finish the migration to enterprise email by the end of this month. The Air Force and the Navy begin pilot tests using the cloud applications.

Tags: DoD , technology , DISA , Army , Microsoft , Alfred Rivera , John Hale , Jared Serbu , cloud computing , Navy , Air Force

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DISA offers 'off-ramps' for military services' IT expenses

The Defense Information Systems Agency sees itself as a safety valve for increasing pressure on military services' IT budgets. At a meeting of CIOs last week, DISA told the military services they could offload commodity IT services to their data centers.

Tags: DoD , DISA , Army , Joint Information Environment , cloud computing , Ronnie Hawkins , Jared Serbu , AFCEA , technology , budget

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Road to interoperable DoD network starts with less-than-perfect solutions

DoD's path to a networking environment that serves the entire military with a single set of standards will start with the premise that 60-80 percent technology solutions are good enough for now. Pentagon wants to start with commercial technologies that can evolve in capability over time.

Tags: DoD , technology , Joint Information Environment , Joint Staff , Mark Bowman , Afghan Mission Network , Future Mission Network , Mission Partner Environment , acquisition , Jared Serbu

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Air Force is next to move to DoD enterprise email

The military's chief information officer, Teri Takai, said after the Army completes its migration to DISA's email-as-a-service, the Air Force will be next. She said the Navy also is in discussions to move to the cloud. DoD soon will release a new cloud computing strategy and standards guide for industry.
March 22, 2012(Encore presentation April 19, 2012)

Tags: technology , Teri Takai , DoD , Army , Air Force , Navy , cloud computing , identity management , data center consolidation , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller

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Army restarts email migrations, names new program manager

Deputy Chief Information Officer Mike Krieger wrote on the CIO's leadership blog that migrations resumed Monday after more than a two-month pause mandated by Congress.

Tags: technology , Army , Mike Krieger , DISA , cloud computing , John Howell , Jason Miller

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DISA using cloud to further cyber defenses

The Defense Information Systems Agency created a Defense-wide directory of email addresses in support of their enterprise email system. But the real value in the listing of every military and civilian employee, contractor and retiree email address may be in securing information in a new way through the use of access based identity management. NIST is testing how to best use secure identity cards in the cloud.

Tags: technology , Alfred Rivera , DISA , Donna Dodson , NIST , cloud computing , Army , identity management , HSPD-12 , Common Access Card , cybersecurity , DoD , information sharing , Jason Miller

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DISA pushes efficiency, security virtues of DoD private cloud

DoD dollars are coming down, and cyber threats are rising. The Defense Information Systems Agency says the enterprise services it's trying to build for the entire military are one answer to both problems.

Tags: DISA , cloud computing , technology , enterprise IT , Mark Orndorff , Tony Montemarano , Alfred Rivera , David Mihelcic , Jared Serbu , cybersecurity , AFCEA , DoD

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Army's migration to cloud email pushed back at least 45 days

Congress wants two reports on enterprise email: one from the Army that is due by Jan. 31 and another from DoD CIO Teri Takai by June. Army deputy CIO Mike Krieger said the requirement for a report caused the service to delay the program for 30 days and would push back the final migration date to at least mid-May.

Tags: technology , Mike Krieger , Army , DoD , Teri Takai , cloud computing , DISA , Congress , Defense Authorization Bill , Jason Miller

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Air Force doubling down on IT efficiencies

The Air Force, already facing a $1.2 billion budget cut from its IT portfolio, is looking at how to cut another billion. The service is looking to application rationalization and other efficiencies to meet its targets.

Tags: DoD , Air Force , AFNET , enterprise services , IT efficiency , technology , Michael Basla , Jared Serbu , software consolidation , data center consolidation

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Air Force aims for one network by end of 2012

The Air Force intends to migrate most of its localized and non-standardized IT networks into a single system known as AFNET by the end of next year. The migration should enable enterprise services across the Air Force, but who will host and operate those services over the long term remains undecided.

Tags: DoD , technology , IT , Air Force , AFNET , Army , data center consolidation , Nicholas Davenport , network consolidation , Jared Serbu

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