{"id":5391,"date":"2013-01-15T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/jan\/15\/americas-defense-department-moves-towards-cloud-computing\/"},"modified":"2013-01-15T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:30:00","slug":"americas-defence-department-moves-towards-cloud-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/americas-defence-department-moves-towards-cloud-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s defence department moves towards cloud computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are all aware of the United States military, and that it is the largest in the world. It has a budget of over &pound;340 billion and employs in excess of 3 million people. 1.5 million of those people are in active duty, or regular military personnel. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, such a large organisation will have a monumental IT infrastructure as well as some of the tightest data security on the planet. Such an infrastructure also brings with it an inevitable large hardware stack.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Department of Defence has some 1500 data centres which it is planning on reducing substantially. <\/p>\n<p>A combination of budget cuts and security concerns has meant that the substitute for hardware has come in the form of Cloud Computing &ndash; high security <strong>Managed Servers<\/strong>, <strong>Cloud Hosting<\/strong> services and so on.<\/p>\n<p>The DoD is moving towards cloud computing, using it to collect data as well as the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all aware of the United States military, and that it is the largest in the world. It has a budget of over &pound;340 billion and employs in excess of 3 million people. 1.5 million of those people are in active duty, or regular military personnel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}