Anybody Know What This Means ?

[jerryfmcompushaft]

Anybody have any idea what they are talking about? And do you have any comments on the wisdom of it?[hr]

The Pentagon has bought into the cloud computing concept and is in the process of consolidating its servers and networks to adapt to it. Moving the military onto the cloud makes sense to Defense Department leaders for two reasons: cost and agility.
Generals claim the transition to the cloud will provide a needed third capability, security. Cyber analysts, however, are not completely sold.
The Defense Department unveiled its Cloud Computing Strategy in July with its plans to move the military “from the current state of a duplicative, cumbersome, and costly set of application silos to an end state which is an agile, secure, and cost effective service environment that can rapidly respond to changing mission needs,” according to the strategy document.
In basic terms, the Pentagon’s current computer system has dedicated hardware and servers for every computer system. Under the new system, or the cloud, contractors will deliver software that is installed on the cloud or infrastructure service provider (ISP) where it runs on processing power in a consolidated data center.


Read more: defensetech.org/2012/09/05/the-dangers-of-the-pentagons-cloud/#ixzz25hhqki1a
Defense.org

[boxcar]

As is often the case, when the military wants to make something fool proof, a cleaver fool will stumble on the solution.

[boxcar]

The tern “bandwidth speeds” as stated in the text is used incorrectly. Bandwidth is the range of frequencies of operation allocated to a carrier and its sidebands. Speed has to do with the bits per second transmitted.

Speed being a function of bandwidth, is a misconception in modern communications.. Speed depends on the signal-to-noise ratio which controls bit-error rate for various types of transmission.

This is because technology has gone from frequency shift keying to quad phase keying and octal phase keying. Since the number of transitions can be kept constant, no additional bandwidth is required while bits per second can be enhanced.

Quad phase handles twice the data as FSK and Octal adds another 50% to the data rate.

[Sir John]

You obviously know more about computers than you are letting on!

[boxcar]

Sir John, I am an electrical engineer and communications is my forte.

By the way, I don't understand what happened to that Hope-Cagney string. What you saw was not what I saw. It was some sort of a fluke. I had removed the offensive post and later the entire string went down. Sorry if there was any misunderstanding.

[mcnoch]

Sept 6, 2012 10:31:35 GMT -5 jerryfmcompushaft said:

Anybody have any idea what they are talking about? And do you have any comments on the wisdom of it?[hr]

As my company is big in the cloud business worldwide, I know a bit about that from first-hand experience, but despite all the advantages there are a number of disadvantages too and security is clearly not one of the features I would add as advantage here. The colleagues from Amazon had their share of adventure on that recently and repeatedly too. Cost effective depends on your previous implementation, only agility is a clear yes.

[jerryfmcompushaft]

I am reminded of my last tour in Germany when I commanded a Signal Corps Battalion. The 'great idea' was to replace all the smaller, individual generators on a comm site with one large diesel generator - less fuel - less maintenance - fewer mechanics - lots of advantages. Yep - but when that one generator went down, the entire site was without power, and restoring communications once power was restored was a real 'Chinese Fire Drill" Putting all your eggs in one basket doesn't seem like a great idea.