Public or Private Cloud? The Decision Comes Down to Risk, DISA CIO Says

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http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2014/04/public-or-private-cloud-your-agency-decision-comes-down-risk-disa-cio-says/82114/

By Frank Konkel
Nextgov.com
April 8, 2014

For federal agencies, deciding whether information, data or applications 
belong in a public or private government cloud or a hybrid combination of 
the two is no easy feat.

Myriad factors play into these decisions – projected cost savings, 
information sensitivity and availability, to name a few – but according to 
U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency Chief Information Officer David 
Bennett, the single most important element continues to be risk.

DISA recently rolled out a government-operated cloud computing services 
portfolio called milCloud that was designed to attract Defense Department 
customers who seek the cloud’s promise of cost reductions combined with 
increased control, flexibility and mission security necessary for 
classified and controlled unclassified information.

“You have to understand risk and the data you’re dealing with,” said 
Bennett, speaking at a Nextgov event Tuesday. “As you look at those 
things, you have to ask questions like, ‘What controls do I have in 
place?’ We want to leverage commercial opportunities and reap the benefits 
of doing that, but we also want to verify and make certain what’s out 
there and that we’re able to understand and monitor that.”

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