RIP Commercial Virtual Remote, the tool that forced DoD to behave like an IT enterprise
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On this week's show, Danielle Metz, the deputy DoD chief information officer for information enterprise talks with Jared Serbu about the shutdown of Commercial Virtual Remote. CVR, the service DoD created to let employees work from home at the beginning of the pandemic, was a first-ever example of the entire DoD converging around a centrally-provided IT service, at least at this scale: 2.3 million users. After a few extensions, CVR reached its sunset date on June 15, to be replaced by a federated model in which the military services and Defense agencies will move into a federated Microsoft 365 cloud environment.
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