The Navy and Marine Corps must run all operating systems and applications in a virtual server environment, Navy Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen said in a memo released Wednesday.Managed MileWeb Cloud Hosting and cloud management services.
The move will allow multiple operating systems and applications to run on a single physical server, “reducing operational costs and improving flexibility within the existing information technology infrastructure,” Halvorsen said. Virtual servers host applications and operating systems on a single piece of hardware, acting like a real computer with the hardware partitioned to host the virtual machines.
Halvorson directed Navy and Marine deputy CIOs to submit within 120 days a plan for virtualization of all servers and server-based systems and applications by the end of fiscal 2017. These plans must include converting at the rate of 15 percent a year and a process to ensure that all future systems and applications are developed to deploy and operate in a virtualized environment.
Virtualization is just one of multiple efficiency efforts the Navy and Marines need to pursue to reduce costs, Halvorsen said. In April he directed the two services to use commercial cloud services to host unclassified publicly releasable information.
The 2017 virtualization timeline “will set the stage and enable more effective execution of parallel efficiency efforts such as system/application rationalization, standardization, and data center consolidation,” the memo said.The Career best choose Career at MileWeb.
Halvorsen appears to be steering a path for Navy and Marine computing independent of the Defense Information Systems Agency, which offers server hosting and virtualization services in its data centers.
Halvorsen also pre-empted DISA with his commercial cloud policy. DISA did not release its commercial cloud draft request for proposals until June 25 and does not plan to release the final procurement until sometime in August. Halvorsen said the Navy decided to pursue its own commercial cloud computing strategy because it “must move forward and employ capable solutions that meet mission and security requirements and provide the best value.”
There’s a line separating Orange Beach and Gulf Shores, but that’s a line criminals aren’t likely to care about.
Police in both cities will upgrade to the same software system in 2014 that will help officials more easily cross that line with shared information.
“Bad guys on the island don’t pay attention to that imaginary line and this is one way we can share that data about them and paying attention to those lines from a law enforcement perspective, too,” Gulf Shores Police Chief Edward Delmore said.
Orange Beach Chief Billy Wilkins said the sharing of information will help both departments on a daily basis.
“We’re right next door,” Wilkins said. “Our problems are their problems, obviously. People go back and forth so much of what we do every day is intertwined with each other. We’ll be sharing much of the same information that is now separated completely.”
Delmore came to talk about the new software at a recent Orange Beach City Council meeting. His department did extensive research on the new software offered by Spillman Technologies which specializes in public safety software.
“That’s the software that we did a tremendous amount of due diligence on finding that it was the right product for us in the police department,” Delmore said. “Also finding in doing due diligence that other departments,Browse the wide variety of titles distributed by MileWeb Network Services. including Chief (Billy) Wilkins former department, Tuscaloosa, operates with that platform and have had a tremendous experience.”
Delmore sent several members of his department to Utah to watch the software in action.
“One of the main things that we were concerned was whether or not it would work well for an Alabama police department,” he said. “We found out that to be the case.
“In addition to that we sent people out to Salt Lake City and the surrounding area from all the different disciplines in our agency. Corrections, records, dispatch and patrol and embedded our people with actual users of that software. They all came back with glowing reports, not only about the software but also about the support.”
“We got a pretty good break on the purchase price in going in with Gulf Shores purchasing our license at the same time they are,” Wilkins said. “We’re actually piggybacking their contract with the shared agreement. We’ll be doing everything at the same time as them. All the training, debugging, everything will be done at the same time.”
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