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CLOUD COMPUTING PILLAR OF MODERN DEFENSE
No Longer Pie in the Sky
The Cloud, Once Considered Exotic or Impractical, Is Emerging as a Pillar of Modern Defense
When lives are on the line, timing is everything. Forces on the ground must be able to access information in real time to make critical decisions. The same is true for cyberoperations; without lightning-fast performance and access to real-time information, it’s virtually impossible to prioritize tasks, allocate optimal resources and make the best decisions.
Defense Department agencies today often run into roadblocks in both of these mission-critical areas, hamstrung by slow networks, storage and computer constraints, and legacy infrastructure that makes it difficult to maintain smooth operations.
By way of providing solutions to those challenges, cloud computing allows Defense agencies to build, deploy and rapidly innovate operations. Moreover, cloud services improve the availability, accuracy and timeliness of the intel that advances missions while keeping troops safe. These benefits have resulted in a groundswell of support for cloud computing within the Defense Department.
Network performance is critical to forces on the ground. Moving workloads to the cloud creates important military benefits, such as the ability to quickly send and access data and infrastructure. To meet the demand for high-speed operations, cloud
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