A More Nuanced Approach to Cloud FinOps

Cloud Computing

‘Going FAR before going FAIR,’ while juggling multiple clouds

The National Institutes of Health recently added Microsoft Azure to their other two cloud providers: AWS and Google Cloud. Some call those providers, “the big three.” NIH calls it a “partnership.”

Cloud Computing

The Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Office looks to deliver computing resources around the world

As choices are examined and strategies perfected about Cloud Migration in the greater National Capital Region, one of the many federal-government spaces where important decisions are being executed is within the office of the Army CIO.

Federal Insights

DLA’s cloud migration: ‘Providing great certainty, in a time of uncertainty'

It is not a surprise that the pandemic sent much of the operations of the Defense Logistics Agency into the virtual realm, just like the majority of private businesses and public agencies that had the capability and type of work to do so.

Federal Insights

To your DevOps and CloudOps practices, add FinOps

It’s time to take a more comprehensive organization approach to cloud by incorporating detailed financial planning for the cloud. Brian Reynolds, principal for the Digital Transformation and Management Practice at Grant Thornton, calls this approach FinOps, a play on the DevOps principle in which technical, program and financial people work together continuously to ensure the agency gets the best return on the dollars it invests in commercial clouds.

Here are the key tech, workforce provisions in the 2025 intel authorization bill

The latest authorization bill pushes the intelligence community to boost many of its workforce and tech efforts, including its public-private talent exchange.

Intelligence Community
Trump administration’s AI team comes into focus, as agencies reach 1,700 AI use cases

Federal CIO Clare Martorana says the Trump administration should consider a shared-services model to accelerate the use of AI across agencies.

Artificial Intelligence
Navy looking at cloud as GFE to reduce CMMC burden

Jane Rathbun, the Department of the Navy’s CIO, said tools from NSA and NCIS along with a new initiative could help small firms meet CMMC requirements.

Ask the CIO
More CISA staff would keep working under DHS’ revised shutdown plan

Under a new plan, about one-third of CISA’s staff will keep working through a shutdown. But experts are still concerned about the impact on U.S. cyber defenses.

Cybersecurity
Why OMB’s human-centered policy design effort is paying off

Federal CIO Clare Martorana’s tenure is coming to an end in January and she reflects back on her office’s efforts to improve federal technology.

CIO News
VA EHR to resume rollout in mid-2026, after clinicians see fewer crashes

The VA says clinicians are seeing fewer interruptions from the new EHR, and that the average user now sees “near zero interruptions,” such as freezes or lags.

IT Modernization
DCSA details new plan for next-gen background investigation system

DCSA’s new plan for NBIS includes a 36-month product roadmap. The goal is to retire legacy background investigation systems, including PIPs, by fiscal 2027.

Defense News
VA EHR seeing fewer crashes amid plans to resume rollout

VA’s Oracle-Cerner EHR has seen a 50% decrease in crashes and lags since the VA completed its last round of updates in August.

IT Modernization

A More Nuanced Approach to Cloud FinOps

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