The history of market change denial goes further back then the staunch believers in the buggy whip business. Cloud services have fully established its presence, or perhaps dominance, within the US government information technology marketplace.
Although that entrance into
The market wasn’t initially viewed as credible. I recall when I started my first business, where we built a government community cloud. I had the old guard, literally, slap me on the back and say good luck with that cloud stuff (read naïve kid) we (large system integrator, or SIs) like the IT business (read bodies on premise) just the way it is.
This gentleman went on to say
That maybe, cloud could be used by a few civilian agencies but it will NEVER be used in the DoD and IC communities. Was the old guard ig database wrong? Hell yes. They were and they have been having their collective heads handed to them ever since. Anyone know what the cloud is at Langley?, Amazon. The cloud platform my firm created is now the milcoud 2.0 platform. Wow, never in the IC and DoD! Where am I going with this you ask?
It’s the what is the next change
The old SI guard will refuse to see and choose to ignore? What is it that they don’t want to see happen? In a word, headcount. Meaning more programmer’s night before christmas core revenue at risk than they may be prepared for. A few things have been happening and will continue to happen in my hu tg data mble opinion. As the large cloud providers move into town, they will be feeding on the SI talent pool for their growth.
The talent the SI’s have in emerging
Technologies will be evaluating who is better suited to allow them to grow their careers and talents? The old guard or the new technology providers? That will leave the government customer to seek out whom will best be suited to assure their successful, and destined, use of cloud. I suspect the government customer will soon see the cloud provider directly, not the SI, as best suited to