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Making A Hybrid Cloud Strategy Work: Texas Pioneers a Path

Migrating to the cloud can be challenging for any organization, but it’s especially complicated when government services are involved. So, when the State of Texas decided that it had to corral rising IT costs – while expanding services to its booming population – leaders knew it wouldn’t be an easy fix. The Lonestar State alsoRead… Read more »

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Three Steps to Cloud Readiness

Why isn’t government making the most of cloud? It’s not budget, absence of interest, or a lack of benefits to cloud. As agencies embark on their journey to the cloud, many leaders are finding that their infrastructure, organization or both are not adequately prepared to transition to this new technology. While some agencies are more preparedRead… Read more »

Ready Your Workforce for Cloud

Organizational support for cloud migrations is critical. In order to successfully migrate, agencies must not only have a technical infrastructure that can accommodate the new technology. They also require an organizational willingness and supporting skillsets to accommodate different management and cost structures.

Ensuring Readiness to Move Into the Cloud

The journey to cloud technologies is constantly changing. For government, it is getting more complex, with more critical risks. After moving the low-hanging fruit – small workloads or institutional applications – into the cloud, agencies are focusing on migrating larger, more mission-critical applications. Leaders want to create better user experience, improve performance, improve reliability andRead… Read more »

Choosing the Right Cloud Deployment: 5 Questions to Ask

Before moving to the cloud, agencies must establish why they are adopting it. Are they hoping to cut costs, reduce their IT infrastructure investments or free up staff to work on priority projects ? They should also consider these key questions to determine which model is best to use: public, private or hybrid.

How to Embrace Cloud as a Business Model

As cloud adoption matures across government, many agencies are realizing that this new IT model is much more than a technology decision. It’s a business decision that has had significant impacts on the way agencies buy, manage and deliver IT capabilities internally and to citizens. The challenge, however, is mapping the best path forward toRead… Read more »

Supporting Critical Infrastructure in the Cloud

Many agencies are challenged to support their critical infrastructure goals with a scalable, high-performance IT infrastructure. Learn how government can meet that challenge through open source solutions that support intelligent cloud deployments.