Posted on 04/02/2018 11:32:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
It takes the private sector which thrives on rewarding efforts above and beyond the call of duty, like working 80-to-100-hour weeks, to actually accomplish things in the world of IT. If the Perfumed Princes can't do the work in 40 hours, they'll just leave it whatever state of completion, or incompletion, that the project finds itself.
Single supplier means that winner takes all after a competition. Single supplier does not mean that data is backed up in just one location, it means that however many servers distributed over how many different places on the earth that one contractor is responsible for managing all the interfaces, etc.
Multiple suppliers would be a recipe for horrendous confusion. Let's see, did I put that on dropbox or icloud or OneDriveTM or what? And with multiple vendors to DoD it will be far far worse, because the above outlets go bankrupt if their customers get too unhappy, whereas unhappiness among the DoD customers means more money for contract mods.
Seriously, what is a cloud? Its just an internet (or in the case of DoD a secure internet) farm of disk storage devices. They don’t have to be located in one place, they could be spread out, whatever, they just provide a common interface for storing and accessing the data. In IT, I don’t think this is rocket science. In the military, however, its a different paradigm of doing business, and it will take them a awhile to get all the bugs worked out.
Pardon me if I have left something essential out of my description. I am not an IT specialist by any means. I actually avoid using cloud services myself.
Wasn’t the reason DARPA developed an “internet” was to distribute services in order to protect against single point of failure in defense related communications/computing?
‘Cloud’ just means “other people’s servers.” In the short term it allows offloading cost of O&M, which is attractive. It is kind of like old timey Christmas lights...one goes out, they all go out.
Anyone who shoots with a red dot optic knows that batteries fail, glass breaks, or gets knocked askew. Regular practice with backup irons is critical for those possibilites.
How would the DoD shoot, move, communicate if the ‘cloud’ gets taken out and there is no local service available?
the clod just doesn’t sound like the best way to go
.02, YMMV
KYPD
There is credible evidence that FDR's administration wanted the warships in Pearl Harbor to ensure that the Japanese attack would not have been aborted. Yamamoto wanted to abort the attack when scout planes discovered all the carriers were missing.
It was a neat coincidence (or maybe not) that the carrier groups just happened to be out of base delivering reinforcement aircraft to Wake and Midway at the time of the attack. He was overruled by high command when it was reported that there was a plethora of battleship targets there
One year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral J.O. Richardson, went toe-to-toe with FDR over the forward deployment of his ships in Hawaii. Richardson knew island defenses were inadequate; not enough long-range recce aircraft (to detect an approaching fleet), too few fighters on Oahu, and many of his warships were crewed by short-time reservists. Richardson favored leaving a token force in Hawaii and sending most of the fleet back to San Diego.
For his efforts, Richardson was fired and the more compliant Admiral Husband Kimmel was named his successor. Kimmel was denied access to vital intelligence that might have influenced his force positioning (as was his Army counterpart, Lt Gen Walter Short). We know what happened to their careers on the morning of December 7, 1941.
Repeat after me...
There IS NO Cloud.
You’re just using someone else’s server
Mark
Meanwhile; yet another data breach takes place in the USof A...
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