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In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, government agencies face the challenge of embracing cloud technologies while ensuring security, efficiency, and alignment with their unique mission goals. At Govplace, we have developed a comprehensive suite of Cloud Solutions designed to transform, optimize, and protect every aspect of your IT infrastructure. Our approach starts with collaborating, observing and asking the right questions, enabling us to understand your needs and goals to develop and deliver unique cloud solutions. Getting to know our customers, their missions, needs and goals directly correlates with how our team implements our solutions. In this article, we will explore our methodology and how we can help your agency successfully migrate to the Cloud.

Let’s take a cloud migration initiative as an example. Our team begins by gathering as much information as we can about the applications, data, and servers which will be migrated. We get to know and understand the environment, constraints, needs, patterns, and anti-patterns. This is done through the use of tools as well as interviews and meetings with the application, data, or process owners. We use this data to create insights within the solution, and we might find that 70% of the environment can be lifted & shifted, 25% should be rearchitected, and 5% can be retired. Our team builds a plan and architecture around the goals and executes that plan, using proven frameworks and methodologies such as DevSecOps, Zero Trust, and Well Architected to create an agile and secure modern environment.

A Proven Process

You may notice that our process closely relates to a DevSecOps process. That is no coincidence. DevSecOps has been a cultural shift which began decades ago and today has stood the test of time for organizations of all sizes, from the smallest to the largest. It aims to solve problems which exist in engineering, building, securing, maintaining, and improving technical environments. In a future blog we’ll step deeper into the detail behind this process, but to summarize: 

Discover
Our proven process begins with design thinking. This allows our team to fully understand the challenges of an existing process, application, or environment as well as the needs of new ones. Discovery is asking questions, gathering data, and leveraging tools to enrich that data.
Observe
Observation is key to providing actionable insights. Production applications under load may require changes to their scalability. Data may see new access patterns. Unforeseen issues may arise. Environments may need tuning down. Observation is the way in which these optimizations can be identified and applied to any environment.
Verify
A final round of testing is performed again to ensure that any changes made between the previous round of testing and implementation are accounted for. Testing will also confirm that mission objectives are achieved as expected.
Implement
Portions of the environment are implemented on a rolling schedule based on the plan.
Test
The environment is tested automatically by tools and by any specified tests created in the planning phase.
Build
Our team begins building the environment to the specifications required by the plan. We leverage the Well Architected Framework and implement automation such as using a CI/CD pipeline for Infrastructure as Code.
Plan
We develop a comprehensive plan which includes stakeholder inputs, goals, metrics for success, tests, timelines, design, and implementation plans. The plan is developed to minimize the overall impact to the agency.
  • Discover – Our proven process begins with design thinking. This allows our team to fully understand the challenges of an existing process, application, or environment as well as the needs of new ones. Discovery is asking questions, gathering data, and leveraging tools to enrich that data.
  • Plan –
    We develop a comprehensive plan which includes stakeholder inputs, goals, metrics for success, tests, timelines, design, and implementation plans. The plan is developed to minimize the overall impact to the agency.
  • Build –
    Our team begins building the environment to the specifications required by the plan. We leverage the Well Architected Framework and implement automation such as using a CI/CD pipeline for Infrastructure as Code.
  • Test –
    The environment is tested automatically by tools and by any specified tests created in the planning phase.
  • Implement –
    Portions of the environment are implemented on a rolling schedule based on the plan.
  • Verify –
    A final round of testing is performed again to ensure that any changes made between the previous round of testing and implementation are accounted for. Testing will also confirm that mission objectives are achieved as expected.
  • Observe –
    Observation is key to providing actionable insights. Production applications under load may require changes to their scalability. Data may see new access patterns. Unforeseen issues may arise. Environments may need tuning down. Observation is the way in which these optimizations can be identified and applied to any environment.

What it Means to Choose Govplace

Long pedigree in working with federal agencies

  • Over 30 years of experience in the Public Sector
  • Advanced Partnership levels with leading Cloud Solution Providers

Expertise in Cloud Brokerage

  • Large enterprise agreements 
  • Negotiating rates 
  • Simplifying and orchestrating multiple environments 

Expertise as an AWS Advanced Tier Partner:

  • Cloud center of excellence 
  • Internal engineer training program 
  • All of our cloud engineers hold AWS certifications and continue education pathways

Solutions tied to compliance and regulation such as:

  • FedRamp 
  • CIS 
  • NIST CSF 
  • NIST 800-53 
  • HIPAA 
  • PCI DSS

Solutions built with modern frameworks such as:

  • Well Architected Framework 
  • Zero Trust 
  • DevSecOps

Solutions built using Infrastructure as Code (IAC)

  • Codifies the environment for consistency
  • Self-documents the environment for clear documentation
  • Increases the speed of deployments or changes
  • Eliminates configuration drift
  • Enables DevSecOps processes

Our Cloud Solutions Offerings and Strategic Partners

Our strategic offerings and partnerships with industry-leading Cloud Service Providers (CPS), such as AWS, Microsoft, and Google, enables us to build a strong technical portfolio and expertise in the Cloud space.

  • Architecture Design

  • Financial Management & Cost Optimization

  • Application Containerization

  • Backup & Disaster Recovery

  • Multi-Cloud Strategy

  • Cloud Readiness Assessment

  • Migration Strategy

  • Cloud Migration

  • Cloud Brokerage

  • Architecture Design

  • Financial Management & Cost Optimization

  • Cloud Readiness Assessment

  • Application Containerization

  • Backup & Disaster Recovery

  • Multi-Cloud Strategy

  • Migration Strategy

  • Cloud Migration

  • Cloud Brokerage

In the ever-changing landscape of government IT, choosing the right cloud solutions provider is critical. Govplace is dedicated to understanding your agency’s unique challenges and goals, and we tailor our cloud solutions to meet your specific needs. By leveraging our proven process, rooted in DevSecOps and industry best practices, we deliver agile, secure, and efficient cloud environments that empower government agencies to thrive in the digital era. Partner with Govplace and experience the transformational power of cloud solutions for your organization. 

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About Govplace

At Govplace, our approach to design and implement secure IT transformation solutions is driven by our dynamic, people-first culture, allowing us to deliver unparalleled end-user experiences and mission-focused impact for our Federal Government customers. We possess an expansive portfolio of contracting vehicles to deliver integrated product and service solutions. Guided by a deep understanding of government contracting and reputable expertise of leading technologies, solutions and strategic partnerships, our capabilities cover Security and Compliance, Cloud Solutions and Observability.

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