Hybrid cloud is hard – but worth it in the long run, feds say
October 9, 2015
Grazed from FedScoop. Author: Greg Otto.
Some of the biggest proponents of cloud computing in the federal government know their data centers are not going to be shut down overnight. So, agencies must figure out how to take advantage of the agility of the cloud while they’re still dependent on legacy data storage systems. That’s easier said than done, said two executives from early cloud adopters within the federal government.
“Hybrid cloud is really difficult,” Chris Webber, the chief cloud architect for the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Lab, told FedScoop at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference this week. “The controls that have to be put in place to manage the transport of data, it’s really tough to pull that off.”…
Webber, whose team has been standing up databases on AWS since 2008, said his first venture with hybrid cloud came when the department asked his laboratory to create a geothermal data repository that would house data needed for cross-department use…
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