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TECHNET AUGUSTA 2022 — Expect to see noticeable, swift movement over the next year from the Army when it comes to migrating to the cloud, the service’s deputy chief of staff for command, control, communications and computers (G-6) said today.
“You will see a much more rapid movement to the cloud over the next year,” Lt. Gen. John Morrison told reporters at the AFCEA TechNet Augusta 2022 conference. “That foundation has now been set. We are putting the requisite capabilities into the hands of our operational formation so they can understand the applications that now need to move to the cloud and we are aligning the requisite combat power to assist in that migration. It is going to be much faster.”
The G-6 is working closely with Raj Iyer, the Army’s chief information officer, on “characterizing” some of the legacy data centers the service wants to eventually shut down that are no longer needed.
“We’ve learned very quickly [that] it’s not about the data center. It’s about the applications and the data that’s in the data center,” Morrison said. “What is cloud ready, what is not cloud ready, etcetera. And…
