As agencies expand cloud adoption, layering in multiple vendors’ cloud products and services, orchestration and automation become increasingly necessary. We talk with a pair of Leidos experts about the best path to that evolution.
Cloud adoption is critical in helping agencies deliver customer experiences that are empathetic and build trust, says Steven Boberski. We chat with the Genesys public sector CTO during Federal News Network’s Cloud Exchange 2022 to understand how.
Migration to the cloud was initially seen as a way to save money. Agencies continue to struggle with shaking off that singular mindset, explains Splunk’s Juliana Vida during Federal News Network’s Cloud Exchange 2022.
“Cloud first” doesn’t have to mean “lift and shift.” We talk with Boomi Public Sector CTO Joseph Flynn to get a more practical migration take during the Federal News Network 2022 Cloud Exchange.
As agencies move more services to the cloud, they are looking for tools to help manage workloads, applications and data across multiple environments. Workday’s Campbell Webb advises finding a “modern platform that can quickly adapt.”
As you add cloud services, expand your applications, rely on multiple cloud providers, your agency will need a cyber strategy that addresses your expanding attack surface, shares Netskope’s Shamla Naidoo at the Federal News Network Cloud Exchange.
A “perfect storm” of cloud technology and user experience requirements is making it possible for agencies to modernize and deliver secure, user-friendly services, explains Okta Federal Chief Security Officer Sean Frazier at the 2022 Cloud Exchange.
If government healthcare organizations don’t plan how they will optimize workflow and applications, the cloud can cost more than maintaining legacy environments. We talk with Veritas Healthcare CTO Rick Bryant about how to avoid that pitfall.
As agencies push toward zero trust in a multicloud world, “identity is really becoming the new perimeter,” explain Leidos security experts Jason Ni and Richard Wheeler at the Federal News Network Cloud Exchange.
The VA has drastically cut down the time it takes to authorize a new application for operational use on its multi-cloud network. Joe Fourcade, lead cybersecurity analyst at the VA’s Enterprise Cloud Solutions Office, says the streamlined “authority-to-operate” process helps gives VA projects “the ability to focus resources on the operation of their system, and only the controls that are really required of them.”
Kurt DelBene, the assistant secretary for the Office of Information and Technology and chief information officer at VA, said he is adding more rigor to the process to get systems and application on the network.
Both pilots rely heavily on the groundwork already laid by the Army's Enterprise Cloud Management Agency, and are expected to start onboarding large numbers of new users by early October.
Over the course of the last week, the General Services Administration issued and received comments on a draft Ascend Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). This BPA seeks to assist agencies in their efforts “to develop and implement enterprise-level cloud acquisition strategies through a modernized and simplified approach to meet their IT and cybersecurity requirements.”
Cloudera Government Solutions President Rob Carey writes that to simplify operation of a hybrid infrastructure, a “single pane of glass” is needed to manage hybrid data solutions.
Long-time Education Department CIO Jason Gray is moving on from his role this month to take the same position at the U.S. Agency for International Development.