The US ARMY has recently awarded Hewlett Packard the sum of $249,000,000 US for their integration of HP’s Enterprise Cloud Services. ECS incorporates servers, storage, networks and securities services all packaged together that are custom tailored to the customer’s needs. This will give the DoD, as well as other federal agencies, a secure centralized source for all their top-secret information needs. HP will provide the Army with two ‘suite’ versions with one designed to save the military a bundle of cash by outfitting a number of federal buildings with ECS that will keep the ‘Bradley Mannings’ out and the ‘for your eyes only’ in which will provide the DoD a more secure environment for classified information.
The second ‘suite’ will incorporate the use of ‘PODs’ (Performance-Optimized Data Centers) which can be deployed over-seas for tactical situations that require access to the US-based cloud hub. To get this service implemented HP will be working with ten (unknown at this time) small businesses and some wiz-kids over at Alabama’s A&M University. As to when the DoD’s cloud service will be coming online is currently unknown but be rest assured only those ‘in the loop’ will know.
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