The only thing that needs to be written about it is that it's a f--king stupid idea.
Why wouldn’t the .gov just build its own cloud?
Or contract the work to build it.
I was talking to a guy a few weeks ago. It was a business conversation but the guy was basically a stranger to me. He actually told me that his wife handled all computer services for one of America’s intelligence agencies for some company she worked for.
It was plausible given the area we were in but I’d think both she and him would be a little more circumspect about sharing that.
I think distributed data, as opposed to concentrated data is the way to go. Obama holdovers be damned.
Skynet.
Flies in the face of military strategy; all eggs in one target/basket has never been a good idea. Dispersed with a variety of platforms would be more difficult to bring down.
Amazon is already heavily involved providing ‘cloud’ service to ‘government’, including the Pentagon.
MAGA never stops being interesting.
Maybe it’s actually cheaper to go back to paper.
Who knows what goes on in the minds of those in the five-sided puzzle-palace.
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
Repeat after me...
There IS NO Cloud.
You’re just using someone else’s server
Mark
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