Cloud First

An important shift happened in the public sector when the government started embracing a “Cloud First” approach for their IT strategy, prioritizing cloud technology for data storage and compute versus continuing to invest in on-premise…

From the Cloud First policy established in 2010 to last year’s Cloud Smart update, it’s clear the government is driving federal agencies toward cloud computing. The strategy makes sense, as…

Making the move to the cloud is no longer a luxury or a preference for government agencies – it’s a necessity. Government IT decision makers understand why this is the…

Seven years ago when the Federal CIO’s office released the Cloud First policy, moving to the cloud seemed like a very complicated and expensive proposition. However, over the course of…

Federal agencies currently spend a sizable portion of their IT budgets keeping old and/or outdated IT systems up and running. The Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act was passed late last…

For the better part of a decade, federal agencies have been urged to move to the cloud. The Cloud First policy, issued by former federal CIO, Vivek Kundra in February…

The Modernizing Government Technology Act (MGT Act) has been eagerly anticipated by federal CIO corps as they attempt to retire legacy infrastructure and drive IT modernization.

The “cloud first” approach is sweeping government agencies by storm, both at the federal level as well as the local and state level. With so many different digital transformation processes…

So far, in this series about building the government of the future, we’ve talked about a lot of possibilities, but mostly in theoretical terms.  However, as the Modernizing Government Technology…

Dear Federal CIOs, It’s time to rethink your IT strategy.  I know your development and operations teams have co-existed very nicely for nearly half a century working in parallel and…