Accelerating Cloud Computing in Government Requires New Management Approach

Source: nextgov.com CIOs must swap magic for real insights on what and how cloud technologies benefit to their agency. Public sector technology executives know they need modernization, while also improving cybersecurity and reducing costs. But, they often emphasize technology over outcomes, as if new technologies are magic for delivering better government for the citizen. Moreover, governments often underestimate the care required to adopt new technologies at the scale needed by agencies that impact millions of lives. The cloud is today’s

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DevOps will make the government more efficient. But what actually is it?

Source – fedscoop.com The problem with buzzwords is that they tend to accumulate a diversity of definitions depending on the user. So when Red Hat’s Josh Ranoa opened his “Open Innovation: Make DevOps a Reality” panel at the company’s recent Government Symposium by asking panelists to define DevOps, it seemed an interesting, if basic, starting point. What the audience learned moments later, though, was actually quite intriguing. That’s because every panelist, each involved in some way in bringing the increasingly popular DevOps practices to their respective agencies, defined the

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