The Federal Government has been advocating a move to the cloud for almost a decade now. And yet, a great amount of applications are still sitting in agency data centers. This is due to several reasons: complexity of re-writing the application for the cloud, belief that the cloud is not as secure as the agency data center and lack of belief that the public cloud is the best place to host the application or data.

Creating a hybrid cloud

Some of these issues are perceived and some are real. And that is why there is a strong belief that hybrid cloud solutions will be a viable and preferred option for many federal agencies. Last week Cisco and Google Cloud announced a partnership to focus on hybrid cloud and multicloud solutions. This partnership provides a solution to develop next-gen applications in the public cloud with the ability to host those applications either on premise or in the Google FedRAMP cloud. This solution brings the best of what Cisco and Google Cloud have to offer, including Cisco