ICIT CERTIFIED: This brief from ICIT Fellow Circle Member Federal News Network offers viewpoints from executives of the General Services Administration, the Small Business Administration, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and CenturyLink discussing how agencies can manage IT complexities in a multi-cloud world. It has been reviewed by ICIT researchers and is a valuable educational document the Institute encourages you to read and share among your community.
The cloud marketplace is flooded with new products, and while that can be a positive thing for agencies looking to deliver newer, better experiences to the customer, it can also leave them struggling. How do they keep up with the pace of change? How do they evaluate new services, and what common reference points can they compare to? And as agencies start migrating their higher-level applications, which ones go first? In this exclusive executive briefing, the following IT practitioners on the forefront of cloud migration discuss how they have been addressing these questions:
Allen Hill, Director of Telecommunications, General Services Administration
Sanjay Gupta, Chief Technology Officer, Small Business Administration
Steven Grunch, Branch Chief, Enterprise Cloud Services, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Zain Ahmed, Vice President and General Manager, Civilian Sales, CenturyLink