When Congress passed the fiscal 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last week, it may have done more for cloud computing than any other organization to date.
Now that his objections have been addressed, President Obama is expected to sign the final version of the NDAA (HR1540) into law. The majority of news coverage of the act has focused on controversial provisions for the indefinite detention of US citizens who are suspected of terrorism, but the cloud computing industry and IT departments should focus on “Section 2867: Data Servers and Centers.”
Section 2867 requires the Department of Defense CIO to develop a performance plan by April 2 for reducing the resources required for servers and datacenters. Specifically, the CIO must develop a plan to reduce:
- Square footage of datacenter floor space
- Power and cooling utility costs
- Capital infrastructure costs per megawatt of data storage
- The number of commercial and DoD-developed applications
- The number of full-time equivalent staff
The NDAA also requires the plan to include specific strategies for:
- Desktop, laptop, and mobile device virtualization
- Transitioning to cloud computing
- Migrating data and services from DoD datacenters to private-sector cloud services
- Utilizing private-sector managed security services
- Reporting datacenter metrics on cost, capacity, and energy efficiency
- Transitioning DoD-owned datacenters to just-in-time modular technology.
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