Make the most of your cloud investments! Align your new technologies with improved governance and business processes to unlock the full potential of your cloud services.

Many governmental organizations find themselves still saddled with aging, resource-intensive, inflexible, on-premises servers that support their file shares and critical systems. While these were once key technologies to support secure services, they’ve been gradually outclassed by top-tier cloud services over the past decade. Cloud services, of course, utilize the cloud (a distributed but coordinated series of servers usually maintained across a wide geographic area) to provide file storage, software, platforms, and more directly over the internet without the need for organizations to operate and maintain (most) local software and hardware. With superior access, security, support, and, crucially, the ability to adapt with your organization, selecting and deploying cloud services that fit and scale with your organization is paramount to keeping up with the needs of your modern workforce.

Every journey to the cloud is different, requiring custom solutions to challenges based on an organizations’ specific wants and needs. The cloud is more than just saving time and money or having access to the latest technical tools, both of which are true, embracing the cloud sets up your organization for future upgrades that are not even thought of yet.

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