DHS email via private cloud

The Department of Homeland Security will provide e-mail-as-a-service through a private cloud platform to its various components and agencies as part of data-center consolidation efforts, Richard Spires, DHS’ chief information officer, said at a conference on public-sector data centers Tuesday. “We looked at the cloud offerings provided by outsiders. Right now, for a number of reasons, we decided to keep it in-house." DHS is on track to move 24 data centers into two large-scale centers by 2014, Spires said. One data center, at NASA Stennis Space Center, Miss., is managed by Computer Sciences Corp. The other is in southern Virginia and hosted by Hewlett-Packard. (Source: Government Computer News, 08/31/10)