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April 2020 - Edition 43
“Don’t count the days, make the While progress has accelerated
days count” – Muhammad Ali recently in cloud, platform, and
“everything as a service” adoption
I love that quote and its true now – thanks mostly to the massive
more than ever.
investments made by the cloud
and platform and managed ser-
Still in Early Transformation vices providers in FEDRAMP com-
mercial capabilities built specifi-
Stages
cally for government use – we’re
As someone who’s worked in the still in the early stages of that
Information Technology (IT) field, transformation.
supporting national security
and public safety customers for There have been pragmatic reasons
three decades, it’s hard not to for the slower uptake of modern,
think about the disruptions and more efficient, and secure IT capa-
impacts of the current situation bilities including budget issues,
on the near-and longer-term state contracting obstacles, workforce
of the government IT enterprise availability, and cybersecurity
and the public sector IT market concerns, among others.
in general.
Still, it’s becoming clear that IT
Public sector IT has been in a modernization, including the
slow-motion transformation to transition to cloud, platform, and
“next-generation” cloud comput- managed services are a require-
ing, networks, platforms and ser- ment for the future in nearly ev-
ery public sector enterprise.
vices for the past decade.
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