Public sector agencies and institutions of higher education are leveraging the cloud to achieve cost savings, improve efficiency, and meet federal mandates such as the Cloud First and Cloud Smart policies as well as the Modernizing Government Technology Act (MGT-A). For some agencies cloud computing helped them achieve greater efficiencies, effectiveness and scalability than previously enjoyed. However cloud computing is often a challenging technology to conceptualize — much less architect and deploy — and the same solution doesn't work for every organization.
DLT’s Cloud Solutions team understands the public sector challenges involved with implementing cloud solutions. We have built an ecosystem of strategic partners including the leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Cloud Management vendors coupled with the most cloud adept consulting firms, value added resellers, and federal systems integrators to provide our customers with a simplified path to the cloud. Our experienced network has the deep knowledge and expertise required to architect, deliver, secure and manage a cloud solution that fits each organization’s unique needs.
Public sector agencies and institutions of higher education are leveraging the cloud to achieve cost savings, improve efficiency, and meet federal mandates such as the Cloud First and Cloud Smart policies as well as the Modernizing Government Technology Act (MGT-A). For some agencies cloud computing helped them achieve greater efficiencies, effectiveness and scalability than previously enjoyed. However cloud computing is often a challenging technology to conceptualize — much less architect and deploy — and the same solution doesn't work for every organization.
DLT's Cloud Solutions team understands the public sector challenges involved with implementing cloud solutions, We have built an ecosystem of strategic partners including the leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Cloud Management vendors coupled with the most cloud adept consulting firms, value added resellers, and federal systems integrators to provide our customers with a simplified path to the cloud. Our experienced network has the deep knowledge and expertise required to architect, deliver, secure and manage a cloud solution that fits each organization’s unique needs.
With traditional IT models, physical infrastructure must be built and maintained in order to run on–premises applications. By leveraging the flexibility and agility of the cloud, organizations of all sizes are enjoying lower costs and simplified infrastructure management. Through our partnerships with leading cloud vendors, our Cloud Solutions team provides organizations with access to a myriad of reliable, scalable, and flexible computing resources on which applications can be hosted and deployed.
Deploy your existing applications - in some cases even leveraging your existing licenses - or new applications, securely and cost-effectively with our cloud solutions.
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Traditional software development processes are often time consuming and costly, requiring physical hardware and software that can drive development cycles to an average of three and a half years. The power of the cloud can eliminate these scalability, availability, and procurement challenges for public sector and higher education customers, and jumpstart application deployment timelines by over 30%. CODEvolved is a private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, brought to you by DLT, that empowers developers to focus on coding new application services while providing IT operations teams with a flexible, highly available infrastructure platform. CODEvolved delivers Red Hat’s OpenShift Enterprise private PaaS, running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, for an elastic, fully configured environment for application development. Through CODEvolved, application developers can code, test, and deploy their applications in a robust environment without the need to wait for operations staff to provision resources. Operations staff can also leverage the flexibility of the AWS cloud to provide resources to developers in their desired manner.
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Since most everything generates data, maintaining physical infrastructure to keep up with unpredictable and ever growing demand can be costly and complex. Leveraging cloud infrastructure for large-scale processing and storage needs can help agencies and organizations of all sizes reduce costs and improve efficiency through low-cost, pay-as-you-go pricing models that match utilization needs. DLT also offers our public sector and higher education customers a unique hybrid solution that leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure with the enterprise benefits of private storage in a colocation facility. DLT Private Storage for AWS delivers major cloud benefits like significant cost savings, increased agility using a mix of on-premises and cloud resources, and satisfaction of regulatory requirements. For budget-conscious agencies, the storage component can also be delivered as Storage-as-a-Service, a secure, on-premises solution with a variable, pay-as-you-go cloud-like pricing option that requires zero capital investment.
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Most agencies and organizations rely on physical infrastructure for disaster recovery, backup and archiving. Moving these activities into the cloud, not only reduces costs, but enables faster recovery of critical IT systems. Cloud backup allows storage and retrieval of any amount of data, at any time, all while only paying for the services used. Through our partnership with Amazon Web Services and Symantec, DLT offers public sector customers access to innovative storage and services solutions that take disaster recovery and backup capabilities to the next level.
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Today’s workforce is becoming increasingly mobile. To meet the needs of employees and constituents alike, agencies and organizations across the public sector are looking for better ways to connect and get work done from anywhere on any device. Through our partnerships with Google and Oracle, we provide cloud-based collaboration and productivity tools and services that can help users work smarter, deliver better, and focus on what really matters – the mission.
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To gain full value from enterprise data, whether it resides in the cloud or on-premises, your organization must be able to access, integrate, and trust them. We provide the most effective, comprehensive, unified, open, and economical cloud data integration solution.
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Whether an organization needs to deliver constituent services on the Internet, provide critical information during a crisis, or simply expand the reach, capacity, and performance of a website, DLT provides flawless experience under any condition. We are able to achieve this with the leading cloud platform for delivering secure, high-performing user experiences to any device, anywhere, reaching globally and delivering locally Our solutions are trusted by higher education institutions, branches of the US military, 14 out of 15 cabinet-level agencies, state and local government agencies, and many non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
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The Oracle Taleo Cloud Service enables agencies and midsize departments to recruit top performers, aligning them to key goals and performance while developing and compensating them appropriately. The industry's broadest cloud-based talent management platform, Oracle Taleo Cloud Service collects relevant information throughout the employee's entire life cycle, empowering HR, managers, and employees to leverage their cloud talent to drive improved performance and business success.
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Maintaining a keen focus on your organization’s initiatives while monitoring and administering software applications can be challenging. DLT offers cloud management solutions with high-quality service delivery, optimal cost, and a flexible resource model to build, manage, and run your cloud environment more efficiently.
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Oracle RightNow Cloud Service helps agencies and higher education institutions deliver exceptional customer experiences across call centers, the Web and social networks. Oracle is moving aggressively to offer a full range of Cloud Solutions including human resources, social networking, databases and Java as part of the Oracle Public Cloud. Together, Oracle and RightNow can enable a superior customer experience at every contact and across every channel.
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Launched in 2011, DLT Cloud Navigator allows DLT’s partner community to leverage a comprehensive range of cloud-based capabilities to support their business transformation:
As the only public sector distribution partner to achieve both Public Sector and Education competencies, DLT has the added benefit of accelerating the growth of our partners across all aspects of the public sector landscape.
Customers and partners can find AWS available through many cloud based contracts including GSA Schedule, NASA SEWP V, NIH CIO-CS, NASPO ValuePoint, US Communities, Internet2 and many more.
To find out more about how DLT can accelerate your cloud business, please call 1-800-262-4DLT.
DLT’s role doesn’t end at the sale. Together with our partners, DLT aids customers in designing, implementing, securing, and managing cloud environments that specifically meet customer needs — no matter how small or large the project. With our partners, we offer a 24x7x365, U.S.-soil based, ITAR compliant Service Center to support complex case resolution, as well as proactive managed services, training, and consulting.
Our team of solution architects and engineers along with our partners are here to advise, train and mentor you on the most suitable path to the cloud. We will assess your existing on premise infrastructure, meet with you to better understand your business and technical objectives, and develop a proof of concept for your specific use case. And, if you’re not sure exactly what to move to the cloud – we can help with that too. Our experts can help identify problem areas within your existing environment and suggest suitable use cases for leveraging cloud technologies.
Once you’ve chosen a solution, we promise to have you quickly up and running in the cloud. DLT and its partners maintain a diverse and deep library of design patterns to jump-start your application or systems into the cloud. These unique blueprints include design, installation, configuration, and training. Our alignment to the "infrastructure as code" methodology is designed to help both business and technical users become cloud-ready as quickly as possible by addressing all aspects of cloud computing in a documented, organized, and easy to digest manner.
DLT’s ecosystem partners can provide the AWS expertise in support of your engineering team to quickly stand up your AWS infrastructure — leveraging AWS best practices — so your application team can get to work.
DLT and its channel partners often provide these services to Federal System Integrators who desire to bolster their technical teams with DLT’s AWS specialists.
DLT Managed Service offerings provide our AWS customers with the ability to rapidly procure IT services, scale up or down as needed and release when finished, resulting in the perfect mix of cost savings, improved service deliverability, and increased productivity for your agency. This unique service supports the entire life cycle of services for the AWS platform. From design and implementation to management and support, we offer a unique “train-mentor-deliver” approach that guarantees rapid customer adoption and maximum self-efficiency.
DLT also provides our AWS customers with ongoing managed services after implementation, including support, monitoring, and maintenance, to ensure continuity and consistency within your cloud environment.
In this deployment model, cloud infrastructure is available to the general public and is owned by the organization providing the cloud services (for example Amazon Web Services). For public clouds, it doesn’t matter who owns, manages or operates it, so long as it is open to the public.
In this deployment model, cloud infrastructure is provisioned for exclusive use by a single organization and can exist either as on-premises or off-premise. Private clouds can also be operated internally or externally (for example AWS GovCloud). Private clouds may be owned, managed and operated by a government organization, a private company, or a combination of the two.
In this deployment model, two or more cloud infrastructures (public, private or community) are leveraged and bound together by software or technologies that allow workloads to be moved back and forth between each type of cloud. For example, you keep most of your data in your private cloud, but you can easily tap into the AWS cloud to take advantage of extra storage or computing capacity when needed.
For public sector agencies, no two clouds are alike. Some agencies are looking to leverage the agility, flexibility and on-demand access of a virtual data center, while others are seeking a more cost-effective way to deliver applications to their employees and constituents. DLT offers three main service models and four deployment models: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), as well as Public, Private, Hybrid and Community cloud deployment models.
The best way to think of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is as a virtualized data center. In the past, acquiring compute or storage capabilities required a lengthy procurement process followed by unboxing, racking and installing new hardware. Now, with a few clicks on a web page, users can dynamically provision virtual versions of traditional IT infrastructure. With IaaS, users are still required to manage everything above the hypervisor, including the operating system, application and any virtual appliances. The benefits of IaaS include agility, flexibility and on-demand access.
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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) allows users to access and utilize third-party applications, such as e-mail and collaboration tools, that run on a provider-managed cloud infrastructure. For an easy example, think of it as a Gmail™ account or streaming music over iCloud™. Simply, SaaS delivers access to software over the Internet and eliminates the need to install and run actual applications on a user’s computer. With SaaS, the service provider is responsible for taking care of the application, operating systems and hardware components – simply procure the functionality users need, provision it immediately, and start using it remotely via a web browser.
Of all the models, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is often the most complicated to understand. Simply put, PaaS offerings facilitate the deployment of applications without the cost and complexity of buying and managing hardware and software. PaaS allows users to deploy applications onto a provider-managed cloud infrastructure using programming languages, tools and facilities maintained by that provider. PaaS offerings may include facilities for application design, development, testing, deployment and hosting. The benefits of PaaS include increased productivity, faster time-to-deployment, no upfront capital expenditures and increased flexibility and agility.