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Why US Defense Agencies are Moving to the Cloud

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jun 18, 2013

Cloud computing offers the promise of improved scalability and agility, two things that can be a huge benefit to the U.S. Armed Forces.

In a session at the Red Hat Summit (last week) a panel of defense contractors detailed some of what they have seen within U.S .defense agencies as they consider the move toward virtualization and the cloud.

SMK

Sean Michael Kerner

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