Unlock Your Access to the Innovation Race
Government agencies go to the cloud because part of what’s involved in running a Technology branch has been commoditized. The racks, power, cooling, as well as the servers, hypervisors, and storage have all been commoditized and made commercially available. This allows agencies to focus on higher value activities like building applications and capabilities directly related to their mission.
Today agencies have their pick from a growing number of government cloud providers. AWS and Azure are certainly the most popular but GCP and OCI are finding themselves in more and more conversations. These cloud service providers are competitive in nature; they compete with each other for their Federal business. The way in which these cloud providers compete isn’t by reducing the cost of compute by a fraction of a percent or reducing the cost to store a TB of data.
For the cloud providers it is not a race to the bottom in terms of price.
It is a race of innovation.
Cloud providers compete by out innovating the other guy. A cloud provider gains an advantage when they have a unique service that agencies want to utilize to support their mission in a way that wasn't possible before. This unique service is then the center of gravity for the application stack used to deliver the capability. Powerful and differentiated services like AWS Lambda, Azure Active Directory, and GCP AutoML drive overall adoption for a given provider because they are valuable and differentiated.
What's the R&D budget of your organization?
More importantly, what's the best use of your R&D funds?
Amazon spent $38B in research & development last year.
Microsoft spent $19B on R&D.
Google spent $26B.
These budgets are in part fueling research and development to build and launch new commercial offerings that will drive further adoption of their overall cloud environments. Commercial off the shelf (COTS) is evolving into commercial in the marketplace. Yet in order for agencies to take advantage of these new service offerings they have to build a foundation of multi-cloud connectivity to allow these services to interact with other agency-owned assets and data lakes. They have to be able to deploy purposeful cloud networks with ease, with visibility, and with compliance.
At Aviatrix we often talk about how our multi-cloud network platform is great for being a single control plane across all the clouds and how it delivers network repeatability, visibility, and compliance. These are challenges and requirements that exist today.
Yet the strategic value that Aviatrix delivers is in allowing agencies to tap into the commercially available innovation race amongst the cloud service providers. An agency-owned multi-cloud network platform is how this is made possible. And that’s the true apex value that Aviatrix brings to government agencies.
That’s how we help deliver positive mission outcomes.