“The departments of State and Veterans Affairs are transforming data management strategies as they adopt hybrid cloud models.
‘Hybrid to me means of using more than one type of solution. So, whether it be two different cloud service providers (CSPs), or CSP and on-prem, or CSP and a SaaS, or some combination of several,’ said Dave Catanoso, VA’s acting director of application hosting, cloud and edge solutions, said during an ATARC event. ‘Multicloud is leveraging more than one CSP to solve problems, whether it’s CSPs in our enterprise cloud or in combination with our SaaS providers.’
Agencies are aligning operating structures to better support modernization journeys. Catanoso said VA is developing a new construct to expand the Enterprise Cloud Solutions Office. The unit will combine VA’s cloud, on-prem and platform efforts to improve the organizational structure, provide better customer service and enhance service delivery to veterans…”
“Currently, VA is at the beginning of its journey toward an enterprise, common data plane, with the goal of enabling the agency to share data across applications more cohesively, Catanoso said. Most of VA’s solutions are more mission driven, supporting different priorities like Electronic Health Record Modernization, financial management, benefits and memorials. Because of this structure, a lot of VA’s data resides in specific mission sets and have different compliance, portability, shareability and retention requirements.
‘We’re juggling that with how we leverage the cloud technologies that were brought to bear with our on-prem capability to come up with these common tools,’ Catanoso said. ‘Now we’re starting to look at data-loss prevention across the enterprise … we’re still looking at how we’re going to solve that across multiple business sets.’…”
“Security and policy also must evolve at the speed of emerging technology and of the mission. Both State and VA are amidst a move to a zero trust architecture to better protect data — aligning with President Biden’s cybersecurity executive order. VA is taking a multi-factor approach, leveraging encryption and implementing TIC 3.0 to ‘defend data,’ Catanoso said…” Read the full article here.
Source: State Department, VA are Accelerating the Move to Hybrid Cloud – By Sarah Sybert, April 22, 2022. GovCIO.
