In today’s fast-paced digital age, federal and state government agencies must deliver high-quality services to their citizens quickly and efficiently. However, the ever-increasing data and growth of multi-cloud workloads and applications require a modernized network infrastructure to handle these demands. Delivering future-ready network performance is no longer an option but a necessity for government agencies to remain competitive and meet the needs of their citizens.
Network modernization involves implementing new technologies and practices that improve network performance, reliability and security. A new video campaign featuring federal and state government agency leaders highlights the steps agencies are taking to modernize the network infrastructure that supports mission-critical applications, making them more scalable and secure.
George Duchak, CIO for the Defense Logistics Agency—which manages eight different supply chains with operations across the U.S. and over 20 countries—gave insight into DLA’s first significant IT modernization effort in 25 years. He highlights their strategic push to the cloud, implementing a zero-trust architecture and purchasing fiber and bandwidth to extend to their more austere locations.
“We’ve taken steps to upgrade our bandwidth over the past few years, we’ve gone from one gigabit per second to three, and now we’re at 10 gigabits per second. Additionally, because we are concerned about resiliency, we have path diversity. So, we have multiple paths for this. So another key shift for security reasons was the adoption of application delivery controllers, advanced application firewalls and intrusion prevention systems,” said Duchak.
Optimizing infrastructure for robust networks is a challenging task, particularly for states. With limited budgets and competing priorities, state governments often ..
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