From Fedscoop:
The Social Security Administration is looking to industry for commercial tools to help manage its hybrid, multi-cloud environment.
SSA said in a request for information Friday that it “requires a suite of COTS tools, including implementation and integration support, for the enhanced automated management of its diverse cloud hosting environments.” ...
SSA’s pursuit of such a tool is in line with it’s greater cloud strategy. As the agency described last summer, rather than pushing blindly into it, it is trying to be “cloud smart,” much like the administration’s recent Cloud Smart policy.
“What that means is consider cloud first but be aware of where things run the best,” said John Foertschbeck, senior adviser in SSA’s Office of Systems Operations and Hardware Engineering, the office that issued this RFI. “So just because we’re considering cloud first doesn’t mean that’s where it goes. We want to make sure that we look holistically at applications and make the best determination for where they fit in our environment.”
This sounds like a concession that the National Data Center that Social Security constructed recently at great expense was a waste of money.
Did Terry Gruber oversee part of this project? Or does anyone remember who did?
ReplyDeleteUh, the new data center is and was needed on its own merits. The use of "the cloud" in any form does not negate the need for or utility of the new data center. The final sentence of this story is an opinion, not a statement of fact. It is also wrong. And would only sound like a "concession that it was a waste of money" to someone who doesn't understand what the data center does and who also has no actual understanding of "the cloud" in corporate commercial use.
ReplyDelete8:09 with a mic drop on the grey hairs!
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