Cloud Computing: Making Development More Productive

With cloud computing, we have the ability to bring the development team, QA team, and maintenance team of software development together. This will also improve the security of the systems because some of the issues are do to miscommunication. Before, there were separate entities doing the same thing just on different projects. Now, we can have an integrated team which will improve efficiency and productivity. The problem here is that agencies such as government have yet to implement this type of system. This is where DevOps comes in. If you have not heard of it, DevOps is the idea that we can have all parts of development in communication and collaboration with each other. Federal agencies can start up new projects more quickly, improve resource utilization, and reduce downtime - ultimately driving the innovation needed for real change. Just 22 percent of Feds are very familiar with DevOps today, but 60 percent say they can see DevOps in their agency's future.