How Datadog empowers US government with enhanced interoperability and security across on-premises and cloud environments
While FedScoop’s findings indicate a growing acceptance of cloud services, on-premises IT will continue to be vitally important until teams can satisfy the following requirements in their cloud environments:
- Achieve desired levels of control over system components—such as virtual machines, operating systems, containers, applications, logs, and security controls—which is perceived as easier on-premises due to direct access to hardware, software, and networks.
- Refactor and migrate legacy applications that have been running for decades on custom-built systems, and cannot be replicated in the cloud without substantial reengineering, full-time employee (FTE) resources, and downtime.
This means certain data sets and applications will continue to run in on-premises data centers for the foreseeable future. And as technology evolves, finding the right balance between on-premises and cloud services becomes essential for long-term organizational success.
