Want to sell cloud? Here’s what you need to think about

October 12, 2017 by 1 Comment

Tom O'KeefeBy Tom O’Keefe, consultant

Cloud has been a topic of conversation for years now in cloudfederal circles without a great deal of meaningful movement. Government is still heavily reliant on legacy infrastructure stacks and is making slow but steady progress to shuttering those systems and moving the applications that rested on them into different types of cloud environments.

But the cloud market is largely defined by a few major players – the behemoth that is AWS, Microsoft Azure and subscription models for popular pieces of software like Microsoft Office, Adobe and Salesforce.

This can leave a reseller or technology OEM at somewhat of a loss as to how to proceed, so here are a few tips and tricks when thinking about cloud:

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Will cloud finally take off for state & local?

February 28, 2017 by Leave a comment

Rachel EckertBy Rachel Eckert, SLED consultant

Doesn’t it seem like every year is declared the year of cloud? But 2017 could actually kick off some serious cloud adoption in state and local governments for the next few years.

The state of Utah recently awarded master agreements to a variety of companies, including immixGroup, to provide cloud solutions through the NASPO ValuePoint multi-state cooperative procurement program. The master agreements are available to all 50 states and cover a full range of cloud solutions.

The contract has the potential to spur significant cloud adoption within states and localities, especially those with smaller budgets or where cloud initiatives haven’t moved as quickly. A few factors are already setting up the contract for success.

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