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When the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer (OFCIO) replaced the Cloud First policy in 2019 with the more long-term, forward-looking, and practicality-driven Cloud Smart strategy, the goal was to help government agencies achieve additional savings, efficiency, and security at scale.

For government agencies, efficiency is king. With the growing need to synchronize data across systems, modernize legacy platforms, and deliver at scale, agencies are rushing to find comprehensive cloud solutions that meet their mission objectives. But this patchwork of services can inhibit collaboration and drag on operational budgets.

Downtime, data loss, and system failure are all tale-tell signs of a breach or cybersecurity incident. As cyber criminals use more and more sophisticated technologies to chip away at the best-laid cybersecurity plans, these incidences are happening with greater frequency across both private and public enterprises – including the U.S. Federal government.

FedRAMP has published an updated Threat-Based Risk Profiling Methodology White Paper (and an accompanying dataset on FedRAMP’s GitHub repository) that delineates changes in the way risk management decisions are made ac

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the Federal government's largest agency and the nation's largest employer, is one of the most complex organizations in the world. With more than 1 million active duty service members and over 700,000 civilian personnel, keeping the mission moving forward requires industry-leading technology solutions and continuous data availability.

With the rush of organizations migrating data and infrastructure to the cloud, the need for capable and reliable data centers has never been greater. Colocation centers and data warehouses are popping-up across the country and across the globe. Have you ever thought about where your data is kept?