The Pentagon’s IT agency looks to expand cloud offshore

• Published in: Defense One
• Main Author: Williams, Lauren C
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington Government Executive Media Group 07.08.2024
• Subjects: Cloud computing; Defense; Workloads; United States > US; Europe; Hawaii

The Defense Information Systems Agency is updating its private cloud offerings to provide better data access in the Indo-Pacific and Europe, a defense tech official said. [...]DISA is still working on a prototype for its private cloud offering, Stratus, that will make it easier to adopt and use on a large scale—similar to a public cloud but with boundaries and “white-glove service. “The first level is going to basically allow DOD Olympus to get all of the core services that a cloud environment requires, whether it's [domain name system, or] DNS, DNS caching, network time protocol—all those core services that really sets an environment ready to go so you can deploy onto it,” he said. [...]the future vision of all that is, is, as we get further out, and as we get better at things like hybrid cloud, multi cloud, we're going to be able to use DOD Olympus to actually move your things around for mission partners, we're going to be able to move their OSes around to different segments, whether it's from a public cloud to a private cloud, or whether it's from one [cloud service provider] to another in a multi-cloud environment, depending on what the mission is.”