Dive Brief:
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FCC CIO David Bray said the agency is taking the next big step in virtualizing its computing by putting 207 systems into the cloud or a hosted provider around Labor Day.
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The FCC will haul its servers from its Washington headquarters to a new facility in West Virginia.
- The goal is to have the FCC systems back up and running again by the morning of Sept. 8.
Dive Insight:
The FCC is in the middle of a “lift-and-shift” — a term used to describe the lifting of internal servers off premise and the shift to modernizing applications for cloud.
The FCC said it will have no applications running on its own equipment by the end of fiscal 2017. Instead, the agency will exclusively use platform- and software-as-a-service offerings.
The move is expected to create substantial savings for the agency. Already, the FCC rolled out a software-as-a-service public consumer help desk that was one-sixth the price of doing the same solution on premise.
