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Vivek Kundra to Speak at NRO Showcase
On the 17 & 18 June, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) will present the premiere Innovative Solutions Showcase. Titled “Unleashing the Crowd in the Cloud: Igniting the Innovation Insurgency“, this event…
Secure Cloud Computing on Federal News Radio
Last week the Trezza Media Group, Flyzik Group and Federal News Radio combined to produce an outstanding Federal Executive Forum on Secure Cloud Computing. Moderated by Jim Flyzik, panelist included:…
My Meeting with Mr. Vivek Kundra
Earlier this week I had the distinct pleasure and opportunity to have a private meeting with Mr. Vivek Kundra. Although my time with him and Mr. Gary Washington (OMB/Egov &IT Internal…
Comments for Mr. Kundra (Thank you for the input!)
A little over a week ago I put out a request to my readers to help me with my meeting with Vivek Kundra. The response has been awesome!! thank you…
Congratulations to Roger Baker !!
My congratulations goes out to Roger Baker ! I first met Roger a little over a year ago when he interviewed me for my present job at Dataline. At that…
NDU (IRM) and DoD CIO (NII) Co-Hosting Cloud Computing and Cyber Security Symposia
I’m proud to announce two important coming events. The Information Resources Management (IRM) College and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration)/DOD CIO are co-hosting…
Please Help Me Plan My Meeting With Mr. Vivek Kundra !!
A couple of weeks ago, I was offered a chance to meet Mr. Vivek Kundra at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in downtown Washington, DC. Needless to say, I was…
President Obama’s 2010 Budget Highlights Cloud Computing
President Obama’s 2010 Budget (pp. 157-158) has highlighted cloud computing as a key tool for improving innovation, efficiency and effectiveness in Federal IT. ” Cloud-computing is a convenient, on-demand model…
Federal Cloud Computing Heating Up !
As fellow blogger Reuven Cohen mentions in his post, Federal cloud computing is indeed heating up: Vivek Kundra held a US Federal Government Cloud Computing Summit yesterday The Federal CIO…
USA.gov “Flips the switch” to Cloud Computing
Last weekend, USA.gov shifted to a cloud computing platform. This move is expected to reduce infrastructure expenses by 90% and drastically improve flexibility. “‘We are flipping the switch tomorrow to…
- Financial changes designed to minimize CAPEX and maximize OPEX.
- Acquisition changes that prioritize as-a-service IT consumption and multisource procurement.
- Operational changes that shift from data center ownership and physical management toward the virtual management of IT services from data centers owned by AWS, Azure, IBM and Hosted VMware providers.
What’s Driving Innovation?
- Monolithic designs, toward designs that aggregate the use of microservices.
- Agile and Waterfall management models, toward fully automated DevOps.
- Physical infrastructures and virtual servers, toward containerized environments.
- How to design and build new apps.
- How to modernize existing apps with cloud services.
- How to optimize the IT owned and operated by the enterprise.
Pursue Multipath Digital Transformation
- How IT service consumption is changing into a commerce-like transaction similar to buying songs from multiple online streaming music vendors;
- How IT service delivery is changing from service requests that initiate workflows towards fully automated functions governed by IT corporate policies;
- How IT service governance is changing from incident keyed governance after-the-fact to the proactive setting and enforcement of policies that control consumption based on individual business unit usage models and cloud adoption strategies.
- Run a strategic portfolio analysis: Prioritized based on importance to customer experience, focus on high priority apps.
- Develop your app-by-app migration plan: For priority, application create a focused SWT Team for each application.
- Create a customer-obsessed cloud team: Think products and not projects (short iterations with quick customer feedback).
- Pursue relentless automation: This requires standardization.
- Re-engage with your trusted partners: External advice in the early change of a cloud migration can kick off the required culture change.
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