It's Official! US Intelligence Community Is Moving To The Cloud!

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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.”

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