Cloud Case Study - Department of Defense Cloud ImplementationThe
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is deploying a cloud infrastructure to
empower its Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Provider: Hewlett Packard Agencies:
- U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
- Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Agency Website: http://www.disa.mil/race/index.html DOD Director: John Garing, Chief Information Officer and Director of Strategic Planning at the Department of Defense Internal Security Team: Network Improvement Tiger Team (NITT) Name: RACE (Rapid Access Computing Environment) Project Goals: Reduce costs, consolidate applications, shorten delivery times and simplify the user experience Contract Announced: July 2008 Contract Completed: October 2008 Benefits:- Shared, flexible infrastructure
- Avoid capital costs for hardware or software licenses
- DISA
employees can provision operating environments from the cloud with a
service catalog accessed via an easy-to-use web portal.
- The
cloud compute resources will be based on DISA’s standard architecture,
which allows for a smoother transition from design and testing to
production.
- Offers the speed and agility comparable to the commercial marketplace.
- Using Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request
(MIPR), a user can purchase a basic computing environment in just 24
hours.
- 24-hour provisioning
- Online self-service
- Credit card or MIPR payment options
- Month-to-month service
- Capacity on demand
- No annual maintenance fees
- No capital investment required
- Pay only for what you need
- 365/24/7 service desk support
- DECC standard platforms
- Developed under DoD IA standards
- NIPR connectivity
- 1 CPU, 1GB memory, 50 GB of storage
- LAMP stack
- STIG'd or UnSTIG'd operating environment
- Your choice of operating environments:
Software Used:- HP Operations Orchestration
- HP Server Automation
- HP Service Manager
- HP Operations Manager
- HP Systems Insight Manager
- HP ProLiant Essentials
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