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Change can be daunting for government agencies. The status quo is often the road most taken, even if it means lost efficiencies or foregoing the latest innovations. Especially when faced with migrating data to the cloud, agencies resist not because of the perceived value (most recognize that the transition is both inevitable and beneficial), but because of the perceived complexity.

COLUMBIA, MD, August 8, 2019 – IT-CNP, Inc. cloud division, GovDataHosting, is excited to announce the release of a FISMA Cloud Bundle Price Estimate Calculator. This exclusive new tool allows public sector customers to quickly evaluate whether they are overpaying for cloud usage along with associated managed security and technical services.

Government agencies today are increasingly reliant on the applications that facilitate their core business processes. Supporting these applications, whether the request is large or small, has become mission-critical to the seamless flow of information and the smooth functioning of Government projects and programs.

To keep up with rapidly advancing technologies, while also leveraging round-the-clock cloud management and security compliance, more and more agency IT leaders are incorporating fully-managed application support into their modus operandi.

The Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit offering a collective for the public sector, including defense and civilian government agencies along with academia and industry to detect, confer and overhaul developing challenges in technology innovations; new ideas come direct from academic research labs to aid both the federal government and private industry. ATARC is aligned with the MITRE Corporation, MIT Lincoln Labs and Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute.

When you’ve chosen a cloud service provider that fits your mission and objectives, the next step is to mitigate potential risks by negotiating a cloud service level agreement, or SLA, that allows your business to thrive. The extra due diligence is worth it. Before beginning a project, it makes sense to know what you’ll be doing, what expectations have been set for each party, and what the mission objectives are. That’s the value of a clearly defined SLA.