The National Cancer Institute is keeping its IT modernization strategy pretty simple. There is cloud one and there is cloud two. All new development will reside in one of those two instances.
Jeff Shilling, the chief information officer of the NCI in the National Institutes of Health, said the agency’s cloud-first approach is all about improving how his office provides services to the mission area and reducing the burden of technology…
“We tried to move most new stuff there since much of our new stuff is publicly facing. We’re driven a lot by this new federal mandate for doing scientific data sharing,” he said. “Most of my legacy that we’re going to move forward with, we’ll use modern tools and move it to the cloud when we reengineer the product. I would say 80% redesign work with the customers, the NCI staff. We’ve run a service model so the NCI staff will work with us to know what is possible today. We will work through some of those minimal viable products where you have to showcase some things to them. They’re very smart, very inventive people, and they will really start to start to come up with things and we have to build that infrastructure to make that happen.” … Read the full article here.
