Invisible Infrastructure: Simplifying Multi-Cloud and Securing Mission Progress

“To cloud or not to cloud?” became a question of the past with the introduction of the Cloud First mandate. In the race to Cloud First, agencies and departments sometimes did not address the multiplicity of factors that should contribute to environment selection – volume, performance, governance, security, cost control, management tools, etc.

As the Federal government shifts from Cloud First to Cloud Smart, there is growing recognition that one cloud does not – and cannot – fit all. The Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Cloud Smart initiative acknowledges that hybrid and multi-cloud environments can be “effective and efficient for managing workloads,” but doing multi-cloud right, remains a challenge.