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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. Re:The Story Is Obviously "Paid For" Damage Contro by purplebear · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just as an FYI, Brown is new to Harris. The former CEO left shortly after the data center was functional. He actually went out on top of bringing Harris up to a $6B+ company.
    Not defending anyone here, just giving some information. Brown could not possibly be responsible for this blunder.

    With that said, I thought the idea was a little crazy to begin with when Harris wouldn't even put less critical data into a 3rd party providers hands, even with sensitivity guarantees. So, why would their government services division think the government would do it with more critical data?