Interior Department Moves SAP to the Cloud
The US Department of Interior is has chosen to move its SAP system to the Cloud as it struggles to deal with an increasingly complex IT environment.
It plans to host its Financial and Business Management System at US data center operator Virtustream’s facilities, using its enterprise-grade Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud.
IT company Unisys is helping the department carry out its migration – it is subcontracting Virtustream for the hosting of the federal cloud, which will be based on its SAP-certified platform.
Unisys Federal Systems president Ted Davies said the department chose to move its SAP to the cloud in an effort to make its complex IT environment, set over multiple locations, much simpler.
Virtustream operates an FISMA-certified data center in Virginia, which has been designed to meet federal compliance requirements.
Its cloud is powered by its xStream cloud management software and MicroVM technology, which focuses on security and reliability.
Last September Virtustream announced another large US Federal Govenrment win with the US Department of Transportation saying it would run its records data base in a virtualized cloud environment hosted in the provider’s data center.
It took over the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Gateway Augmentation project which saw it use the MicroKloud cloud computing solution from MicroTech for the migration of critical applications into its FISMA-certified Virginia facility.
