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えるか、 温 めるだけで 食 べられる。これらは 全 て 米 政 府 所 有 物 のため、
送 料 込 みで、「 教 師 用 タイル」1 袋 が 23.40 ドル( 約 1800 円 )、「 学 校
用 宇 宙 食 」は 3 袋 で 28.03 ドル( 約 2160 円 )という 低 価 格 販 売 される。
(c)AFP
都 内 で 開 かれた 宇 宙 関 連 イベントで、 宇 宙 食 のラーメンを 味 見 する 子 どもたち
(07 年 9 月 23 日 撮 影 、 資 料 写 真 )。(c)AFP/Yoshikazu TSUNO
http://www.afpbb.com/article/environment-science-it/science-technology/2826718/7760530
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9/8/2011 www.af.mil/news/ by Lisa Daniel American Forces Press Service
米 防 衛 省 当 局 はバランスしたクラウド・コンピューティング・ソリューションを 求 めていく
Department officials seek balanced 'cloud' computing solution
9/8/2011 - ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) -- Defense Department
officials are looking to balance efficiency, effectiveness and
security while moving away from the department's decentralized
network of computer servers and data centers and into "cloud"
computing, the DOD's deputy chief information officer said Sept.
7. "We must balance all three," said Robert J. Carey, who is also
the deputy assistant secretary of defense for information
management, integration and technology. "We have to serve the
information needs of our warfighters, as well as the people back
here in the ivory towers." Carey, who is also a Naval Reserve
captain, spoke at the Defense Systems Summit 2011, an
information technology conference held here. He told the
audience, made up largely of defense contractors, that budget
restrictions and the need for better efficiency is driving the
department and military services to move toward cloud
computing, which provides an Internet-based forum for
information to be pooled among many users. The Federal Chief
Information Officers Council has charged the government with
leveraging cloud computing services to reduce costs and provide
greater efficiencies, according to the U.S. CIO council website.
Cloud computing allows customers to scale capacity on demand
and greatly reduces energy consumption. "Stovepipe solutions ...
cannot be afforded any more," Carey said. "That is not going to
happen. We are hacking through some of the challenges of
employing this technology." Some of those challenges, he said,
are how to operate securely in a commercial, rather than a
government, setting; giving U.S. Cyber Command members the
ability to identify and respond to emergencies; and determining
who manages the data in real time. The department has many
cloud-computer pilot programs, and has ramped up its
standardization and consolidation of its computer infrastructure,
such as servers, data centers and security architecture, Carey
said. The department's data centers are being used at less than
15 percent of capacity. Officials are determining which
information, based on importance and security needs, should be
consolidated in core data centers, Carey said. The department
plans to release initial guidance this fall on a strategy to
maximize data centers at 75 percent capacity. The military
services have led the consolidation effort, he added, and the
department will follow. "We're not interested in creating new
standards and making (the services) change," Carey said. Rather,
Pentagon officials will use the services' best practices to
formulate implementation throughout the Defense Department.
"If someone has cracked the code, we're all over it," he said,
noting that other agencies, such as the General Services
Administration, have had "tremendous successes, but also some
challenges" in converting to cloud computing. A typical military
installation may serve 50,000 users, Carey told the audience.
"That makes our world complex," he said, "and everything needs
to be thought through well."
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123270947
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In Defense of Japan
http://indefenseofjapan.com/blog/
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