Cloud adoption is a strategic move by organizations to reduce cost, mitigate risk, and achieve scalability of IT resources. Learn how your agency can navigate cloud adoption while achieving end-to-end optimization of your applications and networks.

An organization’s cyber posture hinges, in large part, on an effective approach to data protection. The exponential increase in both cyber attacks and data sources presents a real challenge for the public sector. In this session, Jim Cosby from NetApp explains how the evolution of storage technology could level the playing field by enabling a new generation of cyber professionals to automate, integrate, and deploy data more effectively.

No one saw this coming! For more than two years, government IT leaders have been scrambling to keep agencies running while undertaking new or evolving missions. The need for agility, supported by a modern platform to manage data and drive insights, is just one of the lessons learned by IT professionals across the public sector. Now, agency leaders are struggling to plan for an unpredictable and unknown future where a return to pre-2020 assumptions is no longer possible. To fully understand the impact of COVID-19 on their missions, as well as the lessons learned from this two-year ordeal, IT professionals need to combine best practices with a new way of thinking to inform future budgetary, human capital and mission execution requirements.

Harry Kidder, Director of Cloud Technology at Peraton, sits down with George Jackson, GovExec, to discuss Zero Trust and how agencies can begin integrating Zero Trust Architecture into their hybrid multi-cloud approach. Learn about best practices for designing solutions that meet agencies where they are at on their Zero Trust Architecture adoption journey.

Advances in cloud capabilities, integrated with new developments in 5G and satellite connectivity are opening new doors for innovation for a wider swath of government agencies. As the ultimate edge, space will serve as a critical back bone in helping support this ubiquitous connectivity even in the most disparate environments. This universal access to cloud compute will deliver mission owners a gateway to the latest in commercial technologies anywhere they need it. Hear from Steve Kitay, the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy and current Director of Azure Space at Microsoft, about the future of cloud connectivity and the agencies who are already embracing this vision.