It has been more than a decade since the Obama administration adopted a “cloud first” strategy for IT modernization. The policy shifted in 2019 to a “cloud smart” approach. Agencies across the federal government have been including cloud migration in their digital transformation initiatives over this period. But 10 years is a long time for any digital technology, and as cloud computing has matured its long-term drawback...

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program – FedRAMP – has been in place for more than a decade now. It has always been a great vehicle for moving government IT workloads to the cloud and into secure government-approved environments. Increasingly, FedRAMP is enabling faster adoption of cloud services and reducing organizational risks and costs associated with the sustainment of traditional government-owned equipment and...

The advent of cloud has been a boon to organizations, giving them the power and speed to vastly expand their compute capabilities. And the advent of cloud has created new security challenges, as enterprises have limited control, visibility, and network security across a hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environment. There are different approaches to providing security in a multi-cloud architecture, from relying upon cloud service providers’ ow...

Governments everywhere and at all levels should be applauded for finding ways to meet their citizens’ needs during the pandemic. While many agencies had continuity-of-operations plans in place, no one imagined that every agency would have to act on them at the same time. What made it possible, of course, was the rapid spread of cloud-based technology that enabled government employees to work from their own homes, frequently using their o...

Just as in the private sector, almost every federal agency is investing in digital transformation, to streamline processes, cut the cost of maintaining legacy systems, and unlock the potential of new technologies to deliver new and enhanced services. Agencies see the potential in hybrid cloud solutions, which require understanding how transformation advances the success of their missions. The challenges in executing digital transformation succ...

The recent cybersecurity Executive Order emphasizes the need for more structure and to start moving toward a Zero Trust architecture. This architecture is a broad strategy that follows the mantra, "Never trust, always verify," and assumes untrusted actors already exist both inside and outside agency networks. By moving federal agencies toward Zero Trust, their resources can stay protected through an architecture that adapts to the complexity o...

The Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) have entered a new age of warfighting, where battlefields exist in the digital realm as much as the physical one. This makes moving to the cloud a mission imperative, but the resulting multi-cloud and hybrid landscape can lead to immense operational complexity. Managing that complexity is critical to the success of IT modernization projects both currently underway and contemplated...

As government agencies rapidly advance in their digital transformation efforts, the flexibility, speed, and agility of new models of acquiring technology infrastructure are growing incrementally. This enables agency leaders to run their IT operations like a business, by connecting technology to business value, building partnerships between IT and mission teams throughout agencies, and breaking down data silos across organizations. Join us as t...

For more than a decade, the federal government has taken steps to address its aging IT infrastructure, such as consolidating data centers, moving to the cloud, pushing compute capabilities to the edge, and more. Agencies have recognized the power of data, but they need to address how information is fragmented and stored across multiple platforms. When the American Rescue Plan became law in March 2021, one element was a $2 billion boost for fed...

DevOps and DevSecOps are philosophies, movements and even cultures of continuous improvement and integrated security – at scale. The result delivers a powerful advantage for government agencies at all levels which are undergoing digital transformation: faster and more securereleases, greater interoperability and the freedom to focus on the mission. Cloud-native tools such as Kubernetes provide insight into what is happening within an app...