2. Upskill Government Staff to Benefit Your Environment
Maximizing the return on a government’s investment in hybrid cloud requires upskilling existing staff. Cloud and on-premises skill sets differ, and it’s important to bridge this gap by offering training opportunities.
Some agencies have made the mistake of taking this transformation too lightly by blindly jumping on the cloud bandwagon without any prior planning or training strategy. A comprehensive training plan to upskill staff can help a state or local agency thrive in a multicloud environment.
3. Automate On- And Off-Premises Workloads For Better Results
If officials want to maximize the benefits of a true hybrid cloud infrastructure, they should consider automating on-premises workloads as a first step. Running a hybrid cloud effectively requires the adoption of patterns and practices consistent across whatever platform aptly suits the application and workload, whether that be on-premises, in a public cloud or across multiple clouds. In practice, this means aligning operations, personnel, organizations and processes to common frameworks and automation principles.
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