John Hale

The Federal Executive Forum’s Defense and Homeland Cloud Computing in Government

Date: On Demand Duration: 1 hour Cost: No Fee Description Agencies affiliated with the Defense and Homeland Security departments are focused on the mission…

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GAO finds employee productivity is increasing from home

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An ‘Easy Pass’ model for buying cloud services? DISA showing how it could work

The Defense Information Systems Agency has set up an approach for customers to send money to a working capital fund to pay for cloud services based on usage.

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DoD to take on the next challenge with cloud: application security

The Pentagon is developing a secure cloud computing architecture that will create a standard approach for boundary and application level security for commercial…

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John HaleJohn Hale, chief of DISA's cloud portfolio

John Hale: DISA helps agencies stay secure in the cloud

For nearly 10 years, the Defense Information Systems Agency has been working to provide secure cloud computing to DoD agencies. No longer the exclusive cloud provider itself, DISA now helps agencies use commercial providers in a secure way. John Hale, the cloud portfolio manager at DISA. tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the effort centers on applications, if they’re ready for cloud hosting and the best way to go about it.

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