Data Strategy Drives Cloud Success

The great potential of the cloud lies in its ability to manage vast tracts of data while its scale, speed and flexibility support data-driven processes. But to take full advantage of a cloud-driven ecosystem, the government must have more than just a cloud strategy—a game plan for bringing processes and applications forward into a new hardware environment. Agencies also need a data strategy, a deliberate and well-conceived set of policies aimed at making data consistent, clean and readily available across the full spectrum of hardware implementations, both on-prem and in multiple cloud environments.