Jeff Marshall, who took over in May as acting director of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) J9 Hosting and Compute Center (HaCC), explained this week how his organization is rethinking its approach to providing services through more of a hybrid cloud lens, and how it’s also gearing up for some retooling of its Stratus private cloud offering. […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plans to drive cloud adoption across the department with a new centralized cloud basic ordering agreement it calls STRATUS, according to a pre-solicitation notice USDA released last week. […]

Having an on-premises data center and a cloud computing environment – otherwise referred to as hybrid cloud – is the norm for many Federal agencies and industry partners, and an official from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) predicts a “more deliberate usage of hybrid cloud” in the next few years. […]