I'm unsure you grasp the difference between the environments here. Having IL3 over IL2 does not mean you can carry different levels of information. It is the inter-connects that are different. IL2 is over the internet and IL3 is over the governments PSN connection. Now not all government departments are on the PSN, so they will take up the old IL2 solution.
Dragon's Outsourcery flaunts UK.gov cloud bazaar credentials
Outsourcery is crowing about the O-Cloud platform receiving pan government accreditation - IL2 in old money - that will allow it to unleash IaaS and hosted Microsoft apps on tech buyers in the Digital Marketplace. This does not give the loss-making purveyor of cloudy stuff the keys to a particularly exclusive club; 17 other …
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Thursday 30th October 2014 06:25 GMT John Savard
Primitives?
There have been cloud security breaches in the news. Of course, traditional outsourcing has had security breaches too, and doing things in-house is risky, because while you then have control over the hardware, normally you won't have the budget to hire the kind of IT staff required to keep abreast of all the risks.
But because the cloud is new, managers are rightly apprehensive that they'll be seen as being responsible for a mistake if they choose cloud and something happens.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
