Cloud-Native Government: Saving Millions and Delivering in Minutes
Channel: Cloud Foundry
Date: 27/04/2018

Cloud-Native Government: Saving Millions and Delivering in Minutes - John Lee, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Dan Zak & Eric Levine, SMS, Dmitry Didovicher, Crunch Data, & Moderated by Dormain Drewitz, Pivotal

If you can BOSH, BOSH!

How is the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) enabling other government agencies to save millions of dollars a day?. They are working to not be the typical “government” agency. They are hiring developers to build cloud native. And, they are operating a cloud-native platform managed by BOSH.

The platform, along with key development practices, has the NGA delivering application upgrades to production in minutes. Yes, delivery of something in the government in minutes.

This panel brings together the NGA operations team to discuss how they are managing the NGA platform, with over 11 BOSH deployments globally, with less than 10 people. Moderated by Timmy Richardson, this panel will discuss where they have made success in failures as well as success with success. As well, 

About Dmitry Didovicher
Dmitry Didovicher has been a software developer and project manager for over 20 years. He is currently a GIS Division Director at Crunchy Data. Working exclusively with Federal Agencies and large private enterprises he is at the front lines of the security driven environments, successfully promoting adaption of the Open Source PostgreSQL technology integrated with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. 

About Dormain Drewitz
Dormain leads Product Marketing for Pivotal Platform Ecosystem, including GemFire, Pivotal's Cloud Foundry Services offerings, and ISV offerings for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. She has published extensively on cloud computing topics for ten years, demystifying the changing requirements of the infrastructure software stack. Previously, she was Director of Product Marketing for Pivotal’s Mobile offerings and Big Data Suite. She was Director of Platform Marketing at Riverbed Technology, covering a breadth of application performance solutions. Prior to Riverbed, she spent over 5 years as a technology investment analyst, closely following enterprise infrastructure software companies and industry trends. Dormain holds a B. A. in History from the University of California at Los Angeles.

About John Lee
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

About Eric Levine
SMS

About Daniel Zak
Sr. Cloud Engineer, SMS