Pentagon officials are encouraging Defense Department organizations to adopt interim cloud computing platforms to meet "urgent" needs without hampering the eventual adoption of Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure environment, which remains on hold in federal court. DOD Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy said the department is working on the "prerequisites" for cloud adoption, including identifying the tools, environments and directories necessary to take advantage of "DevOps" software development in the cloud. "We're doing a lot of work with the services on...