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IBM Builds NATO a Private Cloud for Intelligence Work | Fast Company

Now IBM is easing NATO’s IT operations in Virginia into a private cloud that could eventually help the organization smooth out command, control, surveillance, and intelligence projects, and improve decision-making on the ground. “Cloud computing is ideally suited for [NATO]. It takes the disparate capabilities of 28 nations and brings them together in an efficient, effective, and less costly fashion than might otherwise be the case,” explains Ernest J. Herold, the NATO account manager for IBM global business services. The Virginia center, Herold says, is oriented towards setting standards for the military forces of alliance. Cloud computing could “test, evaluate, configure and reconfigure different technological capabilities to see how they work together.”