CSC might be experiencing some public sector problems in the UK in the shape of the NHS National IT Programme, but its Cloud ambitions in the US government market remain intact.
The firm has unveiled a Cloud Computing platform designed primarily for federal agencies. Built using National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines, the CSC CloudCompute for Government provides infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and a pay-as-you-go pricing structure, which aligns with the emerging buying alternative to only pay for services utilized.
CloudCompute for Government is built on a multi-tenancy architecture that combines VCE’s Vblock, an integrated cloud fabric, with CSC’s managed services and cybersecurity expertise. VCE is a company formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel.
As a result, Vblock combines virtualization software from VMware; unified networking, security and computing from Cisco; and storage security and management technologies from EMC.
The platform is geared for agencies with information systems processing data at the Federal Information Security Management Act's moderate and low system classification levels. CSC enhances security with the company’s own holistic defense-in-depth security framework. The framework comprises physical and logical security, virtual machines, access control and data integrity capabilities required to support mission-critical applications.
To cater for national security requirements, CloudCompute for Government data centres are all located within the continental United States with support staff who are all US citizens with the appropriate federal agency personnel clearance levels.
CSC North American Public Sector president James W. Sheaffer said:
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