In the rush to move quickly and keep applications up and running, government agencies accelerated cloud adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic. The transition to remote work and demand for virtual services were catalysts for this move. But amid a world health crisis, state and local governments didn’t have time for planning. A 2022 survey by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers asked what the major challenges were in meeting demand for digital services. Sixty-three percent indicated that a lack of workforce skills was preventing progress, while 43 percent said that lack of organizational agility and flexibility added to the challenge. With CIOs reporting an average of nearly 22 cloud service providers per state, it’s not surprising that those state and local governments that did adopt cloud did so without adequate skilled resources and planning. What’s more, public cloud does not serve all workloads equally . For example, the importance of data sovereignty considering the amount of personally identifiable information that public institutions collect, such as home addresses and Social Security numbers, can be better controlled and secured on-premises. A cloud smart approach would evaluate each business case to deploy the right cloud solution. As a result of […]
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