December - 20186GOVERNMENT CIO OUTLOOKEDITORIALDigitalizing Government Operations Creating a paradigm shift in every industry, cloud computing is transforming businesses by delivering hosted services with unabated cost benefits and business innovation. Moving in line with the digital revolution, government organizations today are also leveraging the myriad benefits of cloud computing to redefine their operations and deliver improved citizen services.Government organizations are driven toward IT strategies that improve operational efficiency, facilitate easy information exchange, and integrate processes across multiple agencies all the while curtailing costs. Cloud, by delivering infrastructure, services, and software on demand through internet has captured significant attention by government organizations to achieve aforementioned objectives. For instance, cloud can reduce the IT costs by virtualizing capital expense assets like storage and processing into readily available and affordable operating expense services. While the early cloud deployments powered by Federal Cloud Computing Initiative in government agencies were targeted towards adopting easier technologies such as web hosting, email migration, SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS; the agencies are now employing cloud applications in the areas concerning document tracking, grants management, security storage, collaboration services, compliance management, and more. In nut shell, cloud is offering much needed operational flexibility to the agencies that were otherwise mired in legacy back-end silo systems.With that being said, in this ecosystem, technology will continue to play a paramount role, paving the way for path-breaking solutions for improved government services. On that note, we present to you a special edition on cloud services. We are featuring some of the top Cloud service providers who deliver outstanding technology solutions and services related to the government IT space. As we near the end of 2018, we hope this edition will help to optimize your technology investments to fit your strategic business models for the year to come.Copyright © 2018 Valley Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.DECEMBER-2018December - 2018, volume 04 - 12 Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. Managing EditorBecky Graham Editorial StaffVisualizerIssac GeorgeAlvin AndrCloud SpecialSalesDowel Jonesdowel@govciooutlook.com510-371-0422Contact usEmailPhone:510 230 0396, Fax:510-894-8405sales@govciooutlook.comeditor@govciooutlook.commarketing@govciooutlook.comAlex D'SouzaJade RayVishnu SanthoshAaron Pierce Jasmine McHardy Joshua Parker To subscribe to Government CIO OutlookVisit www.govciooutlook.com Becky Graham Managing Editoreditor@govciooutlook.com*Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staff
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