Making the most of the cloud: A software-defined approach
July 11, 2014
Grazed from FCW. Author: Colby Hochmuth.
Cloud computing has become ubiquitous for the federal IT workforce, as many if not most agencies have begun to move functions like email or data storage into the cloud. But approaching cloud as a software-defined environment is still a relatively new concept in government.
A software-defined approach holistically automates network, computing and storage capabilities and opens the lines of communication between them, according to Anil Karmel, founder and CEO of C2 Labs Inc. and former deputy chief technology officer at the National Nuclear Security Administration…
"Just because your email is in the cloud, doesn’t mean you’re taking a software-defined approach, because there’s no systems to automate. You’re just consuming the service," Karmel said. Essentially, software-defined environments break down the silos between network, storage and computing capabilities. And in times of tight budgets, agencies are beginning to adopt the software-defined approach to delivering IT services in order to automate and improve on the infrastructure they already have in place…
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