DISA sets up JOE cloud in Germany

The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is setting up a Joint Operational Edge (JOE) cloud in Germany in an attempt to expand DISA cloud offerings outside of the US. According to DISA, JOE is an "interconnected and integrated mesh of large form factor Edge computing platforms, installed on-premises at DOD locations, that delivers commercial Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service, as well as the necessary DoD enterprise common service offerings." 
 

“OCONUS cloud is both a vehicle for the public cloud to have a joint operational edge — which we call JOE — and there’s also OCONUS Stratus, which we have out in the Pacific, and we also now are just about done with deploying in Europe,” said Jeff Marshall, acting director of DISA.

"When you’re talking about mission partners with mission-critical activities going on in the Pacific or in Europe, you really can’t have those performance degradations. So what these products allow the mission partners to do is actually host their most critical applications closer to them, [with] less latency."