Feds say their agencies are not moving to cloud fast enough, but OMB’s Cloud Smart policy is helping. MeriTalk’s new study, “Smart > Lucky: Pillars to Fed and SLED Cloud Success,” explores where ...

As promised last week by deputy U.S. CIO Margie Graves, Cloud Smart is here. The Trump administration’s update to the 2010 Cloud First guidance predominantly addresses three “inter-related” components ...

Smarter buying, better hiring and multilayered security practices are at the heart of the federal government's updated cloud vision. The Office of Management and Budget's finalized Cloud Smart ...

For nearly a decade, cloud-first has been the dominant approach to cloud adoption initiatives as organizations sought to drive digital transformation and modernization. As with most technologies, ...

The cloud plays an important role in a business’s hybrid work capabilities. However, the cloud-first approach might be creating workflow inefficiency. A cloud-smart approach paired with app ...

The White House released the finalized version of the administration’s cloud policy, Cloud Smart, 10 months to the day after the Office of Management and Budget released its first draft. The Cloud ...

Would you rather be lucky or smart? I would rather be smart. The majority of the public sector seems to share my sentiment, with 71 percent of federal respondents agreeing that Cloud Smart is driving ...

The Office of Management and Budget has published its cloud computing strategy for public comment. Known as Cloud Smart, it is the first cloud policy update since the Cloud First policy was ...

What does it mean to achieve “cloud smart” status? Mark Shank, Principal, Cloud Engineering at KPMG, explains why it’s important, and the guiding principles for enterprises to get there. Cloud-smart ...