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Department Of Defense Sort Of Embraces Cloud Computing
Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
2009-10-07
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For security experts and cloud computing proponents, there's good and bad news this week. The good is that cloud computing can apparently be safe enough to meet the military's standards. The bad is that the cloud computing options available to civilians don't seem to measure up.
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Carolyn Duffy Marsan reported for IDG, "At a press conference Monday, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) announced that it is allowing military users to run applications in production mode on its cloud computing platform, which is called RACE for Rapid Access Computing Environment."
Now, for some of the differences. The Pentagon isn't going to chat too much about how long it took someone to break its new toy, of course, or how it might have tried to deconstruct public companies' security measures. But there is one big point of comparison.
According to the IDG piece, a technical director stated at the press conference that RACE offers its users 99.999 percent uptime. Google, on the other hand, promises to keep things running just 99.9 percent of the time. That means Google might allow 526 minutes of downtime to occur per year, while RACE should limit things to about 5.
If the same sort of divide exists on the security front, then, well, you may not want to trust the personal or corporate equivalent of state secrets to the cloud.
About the Author:
Doug is a staff writer for SecurityProNews, InternetFinancialNews, SearchNewz, and WebProNews.
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