Speed is Essential to Get to Cloud, IT Modernization
October 27, 2016
Grazed from Meritalk. Author: Eleanor Lamb.
When Tony Summerlin, senior strategic adviser at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), helped write the first Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), he said he envisioned the program as a much quicker and sleeker version of what it is today.
Summerlin, who spoke at a panel at ServiceNow’s Now Forum on Oct. 26, said his goal was to draft a plan that would accelerate people to the cloud. Instead, it turned into a 1,500-page bureaucratic exercise that he said “wasn’t the point” of the document. According to Summerlin, speed is one of the biggest challenges to Federal initiatives across the board, not just in the application of FedRAMP…
“A quick ‘no’ will kill you a lot less often than a slow ‘yes.’ We’re the slow yes problem,” Summerlin said. “If you give them a road map that says, ‘This is a way you get to cloud,’ then it works out great. You have to hit it with velocity. If you don’t do it fast, the people that be will kill you. I would suggest you do it fast so no one stops you.”…
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