Platform as a Service Enables Cloud Implementation
Hunter Downey, Cloud Senior Director for NS2, shares his insights
on how government agencies are moving to the cloud
to better power
agency missions and strategies.
The absolute cornerstone of cloud is on platform as a service. What this means is an organization can identify certain systems they want to move into the cloud, that infrastructure, but they get the one thing that's been missing in the cloud industry for the last couple of years. Remote experts to support them in their transition. That's the heartbeat of actually what we do at NS2, but think of it this way. If you have a cough, the last thing you're going to do is call a chiropractor. If you're going to the cloud, you want the absolute experts at all layers of your solution, and you want that as a service. And that's where the industry is going today.
Federal agencies today, their primary focus is making sure the agency mission is met. We鈥檙e talking about budget, procurement, finance. They have a strategic vision on how to help the country. This vision doesn鈥檛 naturally translate to virtual machine uptime. That鈥檚 the reason why service levels need to be changed to accommodate the business. Imagine, we are a federal agency, and we said 鈥淲e want to improve the way we do budget and do transparency. We鈥檙e going to get an application to support that mission, and that鈥檚 going to be the service level to the agency.鈥 That鈥檚 what every agency needs.