CASE STUDY Executive Summary The US Defense Department engaged on a project with Virtustream to reduce IT costs and improve cybersecurity by building a forward- thinking hybrid cloud environment using software-defined networking and security techniques along with virtualization and automation software from VMware. The Pentagon’s then CIO, Terry Halvorsen, had a vision for a cloud-based environment and needed support for making the complex transition from a legacy architecture to a fully modernized and digitally transformed infrastructure. The customer was also seeking support for achieving DISA Secure Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) compliance accreditation. Challenges » Making the transition from a traditional data center to cloud architecture was more than the customer

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