If there’s one thing that Guy Cavallo would tell chief information officers about migrating their federal agencies to the cloud, it’s don’t wait for a budget line from Congress…

“I negotiated with the [chief financial officer], ‘If I’m able to turn something off under this fiscal year contract, can I keep that money and reinvest it in the cloud,'” he said, noting that CFOs at OPM, the Small Business Administration and the Transportation Security Administration took him up on proposal and the cloud migrations began shortly after.

“Do not wait for the two-year budget cycle and say, ‘I can’t go to the cloud yet, I don’t have any money,'” he said. “You don’t start off with a million-dollar cloud, you start off with a small instance and you from that.” … Read the full article here.