John Garing

12

John Garing

Chief information officer, Defense Information Systems Agency

John Garing powwowed with such luminaries as Amazon's Werner Vogels and Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff to bring cloud computing, network services, and Web 2.0 tools to the Department of Defense. Garing's biggest challenge: overcoming the "box hugging" impulse to control servers, data, and process. His version of cloud computing, called RACE (rapid-access computing environment), acts as an open-source innovation lab for military developers, complete with peer-review certification. "Projects that used to take seven months to approve now take a matter of days," he says. -- by Ellen McGirt

Anonymous comments are queued for approval by administrators.

  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <script> <noscript> <object> <embed>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

John Garing

Very cool!

DISA

Photo Gallery

DISA
DISA
DISA
DISA
DISA

Quotes

"There's a sense among CIOs that [Internet technology] doesn't fit what's going on in their companies. That's because the innovation these days is being done in the consumer world, and it is just a shame that we haven't been able to find any easy way to bring that inside the firewall in a meaningful fashion."
- Creative Cooperation, Source

"We have a concept that we learned from Google called the sandbox. You bring a technology inside the sandbox and let people test it and see if it works. So it's not the Wild West."
- Creative Cooperation, Source

"A military department rarely does a mission by itself. These days it's almost always a joint task force or a coalition. In order to fight side by side with other services, there has to be a framework for sharing information, and [the Defense Information Systems Agency] provides that framework. "
- Creative Cooperation, Source

ADVERTISEMENT

Google News