A new MeriTalk report has found that 80 percent of information technology leaders at the Defense Department said their agency needs to ramp up cloud adoption to execute their missions and keep up the military’s technical edge. MeriTalk said Tuesday the “Innovation Imperative: The Drive to Modernize DoD” report underwritten by Red Hat and Amazon Web […] More

Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer and vice president of presales engineering at Dell EMC’s federal business, has said federal agencies seeking to optimize their data centers should initially assess their application portfolio and develop their modernization strategy before adopting a specific infrastructure technology, MeriTalk reported Wednesday. Those infrastructure technologies include software-defined storage, converged infrastructure and hyperconverged infrastructure. Chehreh said […] More

Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer and vice president of presales engineering at Dell EMC’s federal business, has said mission agility, cost savings and massive amounts of automation are the three reasons why federal agencies adopt software-defined storage, MeriTalk reported Tuesday. “We are seeing government in a variety of areas, adopting not only software-defined storage but software-defined data […] More

ViON President Jeff Henry has said the company built a cloud platform in a push to support government clients’ information technology modernization efforts. Henry told MeriTalk in an interview published Friday the Herndon, Va.-based contractor works to procure and install IT systems on site for customer agencies, as well as helps them manage infrastructure capacity via […] More

David Young, senior vice president of strategic government at CenturyLink, has said information technology managers at federal agencies should implement a “programmatic approach” as their organizations transform their IT systems and transition from Networx to the potential 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle, MeriTalk reported Tuesday. “If we understand where the information is […] More

A new report by MeriTalk has found that 73 percent of federal information technology leaders said that deriving data from legacy applications is vital in efforts to advance government reform and use of shared services. The publication said Thursday it conducted an online survey of 275 federal IT leaders in January for the report, which was […] More

David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat’s public sector, told MeriTalk in an interview published Wednesday that the microservices technology works to help the developer split complex, large applications into small components and share them with other members of the DevOps team. “Instead of one big hulking team working on one big hulking application, you can have […] More

David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat’s public sector, told MeriTalk in an interview published Wednesday that lift and shift, augment with new layers and rewrite are three approaches government agencies and companies can adopt to modernize aging applications. He said the effectiveness of the approaches depends on the application, contextual factors and business and […] More

Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, told MeriTalk in an interview published Tuesday that federal agencies should have an exit strategy that would enable them to transition applications from one cloud service provider to another in order to facilitate the migration process and minimize disruption. “Every time I move from one cloud to another, if […] More

Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, told MeriTalk in an interview published Wednesday that federal agencies that plan to migrate to the cloud should build a “zero-trust environment.” “In a cloud environment, there is a need to micro-segment a network, so every single app has its own individual set of firewalls, provisioning, […] More

A recent study underwritten by ViON and Hitachi Vantara Federal has found that approximately half of a surveyed 150 federal IT managers and decision makers believe that data centers do not currently meet mission needs. MeriTalk announced the details of its new report, “Data Center 2020: Federal Modernization in Focus” in a release on Monday, […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has asked vendors for information on a cloud platform that will work to consolidate the agency’s e-commerce portals into a single system in an effort to facilitate business processes and build up user experience, MeriTalk reported Tuesday. NIST wants to field a cloud system that complies with the […] More