Page 12 - Federal Computer Week, July 2019

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Easing the way
to hybrid cloud
Agencies can increase agility and security by accessing the

TODAY, CITIZENS USING
government services expect
secure and user-friendly digital experiences, delivered any time, at any place, on any device. And the same is
true about the government workforce. Employees need access to an increasingly complex IT environment in which connections and services are no longer fully managed by the agency.
To do this, more public-sector agencies are moving their operations and applications to the cloud. And as they do this, agencies are looking to leverage a
common cloud infrastructure, both on- premises and in the public cloud, to further increase agility and security.
Many of our federal customers are looking to get out of the infrastructure business. They want to get out of the data center because they don’t want to manage facilities. Today, they want a secure place in the hybrid cloud.
But agencies aren’t necessarily shutting down all infrastructure. Given the sensitive nature of government data, there will still be a mix of on-premises infrastructure and cloud, with public vendor cloud use.
VMware has a long history of providing federal, state and local government agencies with software products that simplify the operation and management of IT. As part of its commitment to deliver technologies that help government operate more efficiently, VMware and Amazon Web Services — industry leaders in private and public cloud providers — announced VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud in June 2018.
The jointly engineered, highly secure, scalable hybrid cloud service brings VMware’s software-defined data center software to AWS GovCloud. With the same architecture and operational experience on-premises and in the cloud, federal IT teams can now derive instant value from the use of the AWS and VMware hybrid cloud experience.
VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud allows agencies to securely deploy a hybrid cloud solution by seamlessly extending their vSphere-based infrastructures to AWS’ global infrastructure while maintaining operational consistency and leveraging existing tools in use today.
This is the easy button for agencies to get from on-premises to the cloud. Agencies can have the assurance of security layers, availability, FedRAMP certification and more.
As government agencies increasingly move workloads to the cloud, the ability to seamlessly integrate VMware software applications with AWS helps simplify the IT modernization journey.
Mike Wilkerson is VMware cloud on AWS specialist for federal at VMware.
Many of our federal customers are looking to get out of the infrastructure business.... Today, they want a
secure place in the hybrid cloud.
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