The Defense Information Systems Agency's realignment of its computing and storage operations is all about standardization, optimization and consistency. <\/p>\n
The end result of this realignment, described by DISA's operations center director David Bennett as a computing ecosystem, is one holistic computing environment physically dispersed across multiple sites with the functions and capabilities managed remotely based upon who owns each capability, Bennett told C4ISRNET in a recent interview. <\/p>\n
Previously, there were ten different defense enterprise computing centers, each with their own chain of command, data center tools and way of doing business to execute their mission, Bennett said. <\/p>\n
When Bennett first started working in the computing side of the agency around 2013, one of his tasks was reducing costs, he said. One way to reduce costs involved examining how the agency was running computing. <\/p>\n
\"As I became more familiar with the structure and how we did computing in the agency, it became more and more clear that we didn't have one computing environment, we didn't have one way of doing business; we had ten,\" he said. \"From a cost perspective, I was essentially paying for ten iterations of generically the same function.\" <\/p>\n
With a singular computing ecosystem built around \"one way of doing business, one set of tools that everybody would use, one set of techniques, tactics, procedures,\" Bennett said he would only need one director and one support staff member in the front office of a data center. <\/p>\n
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