Federal agencies are accelerating ‘cloud smart’ strategies, which look to provide improved return on investments, enhanced security and higher quality services to citizens.
The 2010 “cloud first” policy emerged when cloud computing was still a relatively new technology. Then in 2019 came “cloud smart,” which serves as a long-term, high-level strategy to drive cloud adoption across federal agencies…
The Department of Veterans Affairs is also accelerating its transition to the cloud, taking its journey “in full force” beginning in 2018, said VA Acting Director of Application Hosting, Cloud and Edge Solutions Dave Catanoso. In the beginning of its journey, VA was tasked to move large, mission critical applications first.
“[Cloud smart] means we evaluate workloads and put them where they belong. Where’s the best place to deploy workload? Best performance? Best economy?” Catanoso said. “Once we proved that [mission-critical applications] would work in the cloud, our confidence was high, and we knew we could move pretty much anything we needed to move to the cloud.”
Now VA is maturing its process and is starting to look at transitioning entire data centers and holistic groups of applications. The agency is also bolstering its intake pipeline and built an agnostic nine-step framework to better communicate and outline its process… Read the full article here.
