A new Nutanix study has found that 82 percent of information technology leaders in the global public sector and 87 percent of respondents in the U.S. federal government cited hybrid cloud as the ideal IT operating model. The third annual Enterprise Cloud Index Report showed that IT leaders from the U.S. federal government intend to increase that to about 74 percent penetration within five years.
Read More »Teresa Carlson on AWS’ Cloud Implementation Standards Dev’t, Global Training Accessibility Efforts
Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector business at Amazon Web Services and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, said that industry and government cloud adoption challenges similarly encompass issues in data and operational standards.
Read More »Survey: 58% of Federal Defense Personnel Want Agencies to Look at Cloud Security as Top Priority
A Government Business Council survey sponsored by Cisco has found that 58 percent of federal defense agency employees said they think agencies should consider cloud security as the top priority as they advance cloud adoption.
Read More »Deltek: Accelerated Cloud Adoption, DoD Spending Among Federal Cloud Market Trends to Watch in FY 2021
A new Deltek report shows that there are three trends in the federal cloud market to watch in fiscal year 2021 and one of those is the accelerated adoption of cloud-based capabilities by agencies, Federal Times reported Thursday.
Read More »AWS’ Teresa Carlson: Agencies Speed Up Move to Cloud During COVID-19 Pandemic
Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted government agencies to accelerate their migration to the cloud to meet telework requirements and increased mission demands, the Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday.
Read More »Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic, Presents CIA CIO Juliane Gallina Her First Wash100 Award
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Juliane Gallina, chief information officer of the CIA, her first Wash100 Award during Potomac Officers Club’s CIO Forum 2020 on Thursday.
Read More »ManTech’s Sandeep Shilawat: Federal Agencies Need Industry Partnership to Measure Cloud’s Economic Benefits
Sandeep Shilawat, executive director for cloud and DevOps at ManTech International, wrote in a Forbes article published Tuesday that the federal government should implement a mechanism in the budgeting process to allow program managers to reuse cloud adoption-related cost savings.
Read More »ECS’ John Sankovich: Managed Service Providers Could Help Facilitate Cloud Adoption
John Sankovich, vice president of cloud solutions at ECS, said in an interview published Tuesday that organizations should partner with a managed service provider to help train their employees when it comes to cloud adoption.
Read More »GSA Selects ICF for Multiple-Award $100M IT Modernization Contract; Kris Tremaine Quoted
ICF announced on Friday that the company has been awarded a potential three-year, multiple award blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with a total ceiling value of $100 million to support the governmentwide Centers of Excellence (CoE) program, a partnership initiative between GSA and the White House Office of American Innovation.
Read More »Symantec: Enterprise Security Practices Struggle to Keep Pace With Cloud Adoption
A new Symantec report says 54 percent of information technology decision makers think their organizations’ cloud security practices cannot keep pace with rapid cloud adoption.
Read More »AWS’ Andy Jassy: Speed, Agility Drive Cloud Tech Adoption in Public Sector
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, said during the AWS Public Sector Summit that government agencies and enterprises are embracing cloud computing technology because of its potential to increase agility and speed of operations. He pointed to the CIA's award of a $600M contract to AWS in 2013 as having an impact on how organizations perceive the technology.
Read More »AWS’ Andy Jassy Talks Cloud Adoption, Security at CERAWeek 2019
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, said the agility and speed that cloud offers when it comes to improving customer experiences is the primary reason why government agencies and enterprises migrate to the cloud, CRN reported Wednesday.
Read More »Davis Johnson: Riverbed Hosts Discussions on Govt Cloud Adoption, Digital Transformation
Riverbed Technology has facilitated discussions on government cloud adoption at the company’s first annual “Disrupt” event for public sector leaders in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. The event featured a keynote speech from Hansang Bae, Riverbed chief technology officer, where he discussed how federal agencies can deploy software-defined wide area network to simplify cloud …
Read More »CSRA’s Yogesh Khanna: Hybrid Model Could Remain in Federal IT Environments Amid Cloud Adoption
Yogesh Khanna, chief technology officer of CSRA, has predicted that federal government agencies will continue to maintain both cloud and legacy information technology systems even as they work to accelerate adoption of cloud technology, FedScoop reported Monday. Khanna said in a conference call Monday he observed agency IT leaders continue to face …
Read More »InfoReliance Enters Multistate IaaS Platform Marketing Agreement
The state of Utah has awarded InfoReliance a 10-year master agreement to offer an infrastructure-as-a-service platform to state agencies and education institutions that are part of the NASPO ValuePoint cooperative procurement program. InfoReliance said Tuesday it will sell 53 IaaS offerings such as cloud services for initial setup, access, training and support under …
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