U.S. Intelligence Agencies Seek A Private Cloud OS

CIAs investment arm has partnered with Adaptive Computing to develop a cloud OS for agencies use. OpenStack platform may be used.

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In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA, has partnered with cloud management specialist Adaptive Computing to develop a cloud operating system for use by U.S. intelligence agencies.
Adaptive will integrate its Moab cloud management suite with an unspecified open source cloud platform--potentially OpenStack, CloudStack, or another alternative--to create the cloud OS.
Adaptives Moab Cloud Suite provides service provisioning, service catalogs, and policy management in cloud environments. The company holds patents in areas such as multi-tier applications, time-based policy enforcement, and hybrid and multi-tenant clouds.
In a written announcement on the partnership, Robert Ames, senior VP of In-Q-Tels information and communication technologies practice, cited
Adaptives experience in cloud management software
and its development capabilities in deciding to work with the company. The companys customers include the National Security Agency, national laboratories, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. military.
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U.S. director of national intelligence James Clapper said at an industry conference last year that the
Intelligence Community
(comprised of 17 federal agencies and departments) would be moving to the cloud model as a way of meeting budget reductions. Given the security requirements of intelligence agencies, private clouds may be the preferred way of doing that.
CIA CTO Gus Hunt
, speaking at
InformationWeek
s GovCloud conference last year, said cloud computing, because if its virtual, dynamic nature, could potentially be more secure than traditional IT approaches. Ive created a world in which my workloads are constantly fresh and clean, and I have created a shell game by turning myself into a polymorphic attack service, he said. (
InformationWeek Government
s
GovCloud 2012 conference
will be held Oct. 17 in Washington, D.C)
The non-profit Intelligence and National Security Alliance earlier this year released a
white paper
that identified issues around cloud adoption, including security and the suitability of various cloud environments (public, private, or hybrid). At the same time, the INSA concluded that agencies stand to benefit from an increased ability to share and analyze large quantities of data.
Adaptive Computing, previously known as Cluster Resources, has a background in managing high-performance computing clusters, which it is applying to the supervision of x86 servers in private clouds. The companys Moab technology employs a multi-dimensional intelligence engine to the management and allocation of IT resources.

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