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Army Selects Leader For New Enterprise Cloud Management Office

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019

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Army Selects Leader For New Enterprise Cloud Management Office

Paul Puckett, director of the Army's new Enterprise Cloud Management Office

The Army has announced the director of its new cloud management office, hiring a private sector chief technology officer with large cloud migration experience to stand up the new office. Paul Puckett, who most recently served as Pivotal Software’s [PVTL] CTO, will head the new Enterprise Cloud Management Office (ECMO), which is intended to provide central oversight of the Army’s growing effort to implement cloud computing initiatives. “Joining the Army from the commercial industry, Mr. Puckett has personally led large…

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