Tag Archives: Cloud Smart

James Langley, a solutions consultant at Hitachi Vantara Federal, wrote in a commentary published Tuesday on Federal News Network that agencies should adopt a hybrid cloud approach as they work to meet the demands of their remote employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Everlaw has received authority to operate at moderate impact level under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based litigation and ediscovery platform.

Stephen Kovac, vice president for global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler, has said that agencies must consider cloud security in efforts to fortify digital infrastructure through the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program.

Forcepoint called on its strategists, researchers and engineers to identify and discuss cybersecurity trends they forecast for the coming year and one of those predictions concerns with the Cloud Smart strategy. Eric Trexler, vice president of global government at Forcepoint, shared that more organizations will transition from Cloud First to Cloud Smart in 2020 but will remain “cloud dumb” when it comes to ensuring the security of their public cloud environments.

Steven Spano, a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general and regional vice president for the public sector business at data visualization software company Tableau, has said leadership teams in the federal government can play a key role in the creation of a data-driven culture to help employees obtain insights, make decisions and improve mission outcomes. 

Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at ViON, told MeriTalk in an interview published Tuesday that agencies seeking to leverage artificial intelligence should have a comprehensive understanding of AI and analytics before integrating such technologies into their operations.

Dan Tucker, a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, told Meritalk in an interview published Tuesday that federal agencies need to assess their data architecture and future requirements for data scalability and extensibility when moving workloads to the cloud. “You almost need the data strategy at the application and portfolio level before you can lay out your cloud strategy,” Tucker said.

Salesforce has submitted recommendations to the Office of Management and Budget through a public comment on OMB’s draft of an updated federal cloud computing strategy. Dave Rey, executive vice president of Salesforce’s North American public sector business, told Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent in a written response to the Cloud Smart Strategy proposal that OMB should include customer experience …

Amazon Web Services has offered formal comments to the Office of Management and Budget regarding OMB’s draft of an updated federal cloud computing strategy. Dave Levy, vice president of AWS’ federal business, told Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent in a written response to the Cloud Smart Strategy proposal that aligning the policy …