As the Pentagon works to shift its computing services to the cloud, defense officials are considering bringing public services behind defense protections, according to the Defense Department's architect of cloud computing. Robert Vietmeyer, the cloud computing architect for DOD's chief information office, said today that the department must make sure that information on the cloud is not exposed to attacks above the present level. Accordingly, the Pentagon is focused on using the public cloud for functions that could “accept some...
