5 reasons governments are building cloud into IT modernization plans

The imperative to meet high network-performance standards, manage costs and protect data is prompting governments to modernize their legacy systems and networks. Momentum is building within government agencies to address this challenge by migrating some operations to the public cloud. Nearly half (49 percent) of state governments have most of their systems in the cloud. Additionally, 88 percent of city leaders cite the cloud as their most urgent priority for investment.

The appeal of the public cloud is the easy access it provides to third-party hardware, software, servers and storage on a “pay only for what’s needed” basis. Since public cloud service providers (CSPs) — Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others — can integrate with existing private networks, government agencies can improve, retire and replace portions of their IT systems to gain immediate network performance improvements.

Discover five reasons why more and more government agencies are incorporating cloud into their modernization efforts and IT strategies.

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