https://www.broadcom.com/blog/for-cost-and-mission-effective-federal-it-modernization-go-private
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Since day one, the second Trump Administration has been clear on two key objectives: reduce excessive federal government spending and advance the modernization of the federal government’s IT infrastructure. Some may see these as conflicting priorities, but in fact, they are quite complementary. Successful enterprises, public and private, are those that can be both cost and mission effective.
It’s how we operate at Broadcom. For example, since our acquisition of VMware in November 2023, we have undertaken our own IT modernization across all of Broadcom, and have consolidated our data centers from 42 to 7, and reduced infrastructure and operational spending, while optimizing our IT user experience and capabilities. Through our innovative semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, we offer that same cost and mission effective approach to our customers, including one of our best and most valued customers: the U.S. government.
In recent weeks, the federal government has been determined to address its spending habits contract-by-contract, but when it comes to IT modernization, it’s also important to carefully go agency-by-agency and examine the IT operating models that exist. In doing so, the federal government has an opportunity to advance cost and mission effectiveness at scale by focusing on one IT model in particular: cloud.
A decade ago, enterprises and governments committed their investment and skilled resources in an attempt to realize the promise of IT modernization through the use of public cloud. That promise has not been realized. Last year, a survey found that 83 percent of private sector CIOs are moving or are planning to move workloads back to on premises data centers. Why? They confronted what I call the “3 C’s of public cloud”:
Cost. Public clouds are more expensive than expected. Multiple surveys consistently show that predicting and managing costs across public clouds remains a significant challenge.
Complexity. At the end of the day, public cloud is another platform that provides an extra layer of complexity to manage. This complexity sees a shortage of knowledge and experience in the workforce, leading to a cloud-skills gap, and resulting in the failure of many cloud migrations.
Compliance. With vast stores of sensitive data, managing security risks is a federal CIO’s top priority. Years of learning and experience have created highly trusted private environments, which are not so easily rebuilt into a model predicated on shared public resources.
For federal agencies seeking to modernize their IT infrastructure as truly cost and mission effective, their future is private, as in private cloud. Private cloud enables government agencies to finally break down their slow, technical silos and achieve the benefits of cloud modernization at a significantly lower cost – potentially an estimated 51 percent cost reduction relative to a traditional data center model, and at least an estimated 40 percent cost reduction relative to public cloud. Instead of having to rebuild apps and move sensitive federal data to public clouds, private cloud enables agencies to quickly bring cloud services and even AI to their applications and data, providing far greater flexibility and interoperability across systems. In addition, the skilled professionals needed to utilize private cloud are readily available within the federal government, and unlike public cloud, a private cloud platform can deliver those benefits from the largest, most secure centers of federal IT all the way out to the edge, in the smallest, most contested environments.
In short, with private cloud, federal agencies can finally realize IT modernization benefits on a platform that feels like a public cloud, but offers several distinct features: Private cloud is more resilient; provides greater levels of control and security; enables flexibility and interoperability across IT systems; and costs a lot less than public cloud.
Just like many of their largest counterpart enterprises in the private sector, a number of federal agencies are already utilizing private clouds to drive efficiencies, cost savings, and innovation with Broadcom technology. The IRS uses our VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud platform to support the filing of tens of millions of tax returns in a way that streamlines the delivery, processing, and protection of those returns. The Defense Department’s Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE), a globally distributed cybersecurity training platform, uses our private cloud platform to support tens of thousands of cyber force users preparing for digital warfare. And unlike public cloud, our private cloud platform makes it possible for the Defense Department to extend IT infrastructure, applications, AI, and data services to every possible edge environment, including contested, degraded environments, which is critical to the warfighter and our overall national defense.
The reason why agencies like the IRS and the Defense Department are finding success with private cloud is they see cloud for what it is: an operating model that gets the most out of their apps and data, rather than a physical destination for apps and data. Our VCF private cloud platform offers a toolset that federal government IT professionals know and trust. VCF also positions federal agencies to meet the growing demand for even more advanced services, such as AI models, to accelerate innovation and get more value out of their data and IT systems. In addition, with private AI, which is built on a private cloud platform, agency CIOs will have the flexibility to use any AI models by bringing those models close to their data, which not only reduces risk by giving agencies full control over their environments, but also accelerates AI projects through the cost effective use of expensive resources like GPUs.
Federal IT systems are critical to bolstering our national defense, protecting our borders and homeland, and delivering citizen services, such as Social Security, Medicare, and veterans benefits. Given the criticality of these systems, cost and mission effective IT modernization has become an essential strategic imperative. Private cloud is an important part of delivering on that imperative in financially responsible and technologically innovative ways for the entire federal government and for all of us as citizens.