Orchestrating Seamless Access and Control of Data in a Siloed World
Overcoming the Silo Problem.
A key data problem facing all government and civilian agencies is how to maintain secure access and control over a wide range of data that may be scattered across many vendor storage silos, multiple locations, and one or more public or private cloud service providers. Even more challenging is the fact that this is not a static or one-dimensional problem: Ongoing mission-critical operations must proceed with little or no interruption while the following priorities are also implemented:
- Data center consolidation and IT modernization needs to move forward;
- The shift to more agile application environments leveraging cloud resources needs to increase;
- Cloud flexibility is also required, to enable a shifting landscape including hybrid environments of one or more on-premises data centers, plus multiple cloud service providers and regions;
- Operational silos must be reduced to embrace DevSecOps, which enables better collaboration across multidisciplinary teams while also enforcing cross-platform data services, and;
- New use cases must be rapidly supported for AI/ML and other innovative data-intensive workflows.
The problem is that ensuring existing mission requirements are maintained while accommodating these necessary IT landscape and use-case changes creates significant operational friction, which can add complexity, costs, and risk. This also directly impacts the timelines needed to make the changes operational.
