 Members of the Marine Corps information technology, cyber security and communications infrastructure community joined together at the Marine Corps Systems Command’s Cloud Technology Summit to discuss cloud migration Feb. 11 at Alfred M. Gray Marine Corps Research Center aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico. Kenneth Bible, C4 deputy director/deputy chief information officer at Marine Corps Headquarters kicked off the summit discussing the vision for Marine Corps cloud implementation. “It’s not about IT, it’s about command and control,” he said. “It’s about warfighting. We want to provide access to information wherever we need it; even to the tactical edge.” The Marine Corps cloud computing approach aims to provide Marines in the field access to applications and data via a shared pool of configurable resources that can rapidly be provisioned and released with reduced management effort. Doing so will enhance operational effectiveness with a more knowledge-based force, increase efficiencies to reduce costs, and enable seamless secure command and control capabilities for decision makers. Source>> |