“The Department of Veterans Affairs is aiming to reach a significant cloud migration landmark by 2024, marking an effective halfway point of its transition to full cloud integration.”
“Speaking at the ACT-IAC Stop Chaotic Cloud Spend summit, VA Executive Director of Infrastructure Operations Reginald Cummings outlined goals the agency intends to reach within the next four years.”
“In looking at the agency’s extant cloud development, Cummings noted the relatively brief timeframe under which the VA has been focusing on moving away from on-site data management. Much of the VA’s work thus far has been focused on laying the groundwork for future cloud migration, particularly through an emphasis on establishing workflows and accompanying project management.”
“’AWS and Azure were implemented primarily back in 2015 … and then in 2017 we went ahead with cloud first initiatives,’ Cummings said. ‘We established a formal program that put a backdrop on our entire cloud strategy, which resulted in us creating a centralized cloud solutions enterprise office. And then we went forward from there by using our VA enterprise cloud as a backdrop.’”
“Having built this foundation, the VA is now moving directly toward wholesale cloud migration — having set the goal of more than doubling the total number of agency applications running off the public cloud…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Aiming for Significant Cloud Migration by 2024 – By Adam Patterson, August 24, 2020. GovernmentCIO.
