Mainframe Computing: Not Sexy, But Essential to US DoD IT

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 239 views

While it might be more thrilling to imagine US Special Operations Forces getting critical intelligence about enemy movements through a laptop computer in the field, the bread and butter of US Department of Defense IT are mainframe computers. They have the computing power necessary to process the huge amount of information generated by the sprawling DoD bureaucracy. MORE