IBM to design cloud computing network for the U.S. Air Force
Posted on 05 February 2010 by Andrej Shevchenko
In the cloud: US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons
The U.S. Air Force has contracted with IBM to design a cloud computing system secure enough to support defense and intelligence networks.
The 10-month project will utilise IBM’s “stream computing,” a technique for real-time analysis of thousands of data streams that would be used to detect and prevent malicious attacks and system failures.
The project will push the technology boundaries of cloud computing with an infrastructure design that not only supports large-scale networks, but meets rigorous security standards and the government’s Information Assurance guidelines for all networks. The Air Force network has almost 100 bases and 700,000 active military personnel.
Recently, the Obama Administration has called for more extensive adoption of cloud computing in the federal government to improve information technology (IT) efficiency, reduce costs, and provide a standard platform for delivering government services.
In a cloud computing environment, IT resources – services, applications, storage devices and servers, can be provisioned and made available on demand via the Internet. This strengthens the resiliency of mission-critical applications by removing dependency on underlying hardware, thus making applications more secure and mobile.
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