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Harris Exits Cloud Hosting, Citing Fed Server Hugging

Posted by timothy on from the sell-your-stock-in-the-less-efficient-agencies dept.

miller60 writes "Despite the publicity around the U.S. Government's 'Cloud First' approach to IT, many agencies are reluctant to shift mission critical assets to third-party facilities. That's the analysis from Harris Corp., which has decided to get out of the cloud hosting business and sell a data center in Virginia, just two years after it spent $200 million to build and equip it. 'It's becoming clear that customers, both government and commercial, currently have a preference for on-premise versus off-premise solutions,' said Harris' CEO."

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  1. Server Hugging by stevegee58 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have you hugged your server today?

    1. Re:Server Hugging by berashith · · Score: 4, Funny

      so this is proof that the canadians are terrorists! If there is nothing to hide then why are they hiding it?

    2. Re:Server Hugging by jc42 · · Score: 1, Funny

      If there is nothing to hide then why are they hiding it?

      They'd probably be happy to tell you after you post all your login account names, number and passwords online. You don't have anything to hide, do you?

      You're welcome to post them in a reply to this message ...

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  2. Re:Shocking by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because I really was looking forward to putting all my mission critical inhouse infrastructure into someone elses control.

    Welllll... there's always Wikileaks.

    They seem capable of weathering the worst the world can throw at them.

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