Not typically known for its rapid adaptability, the public sector must still adapt for a technologically advanced economy powered by cloud computing. While slower digital transformation processes have characterized government tech in the past, the industry is beginning to accelerate with the help of the enterprise.

“We’re seeing a greater concentration … on folks who see the cloud as a kind of inflection point to break with tradition and actually be able to consume native services so they can … bring mission outcomes more effectively,” said Peter O’Donoghue (pictured, left), vice president of application services at Unisys Corp. With the help of a partnership with Josh Stella (pictured, right), founder and chief executive officer of Fugue Inc., O’Donoghue works with federal customers to overcome cloud challenges at the federal level.

Stella and O’Donoghue spoke with John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the AWS re:Invent event in Las Vegas, Nevada. They discussed how the partnership between Unisys and Fugue is helping federal customers get up to speed in cloud migration. (* Disclosure below.)

Providing the guardrails for growth

With the market now in the “second phase of cloud,” Fugue and Unisys work together to move customers out of the shadow information technology era and into full strategic adoption. “To do that you need automation, you need repeatability, you need consistency, you need policy enforcement. That’s where a system like Fugue packages all that together, which accelerates the whole operation,” Stella said.

Fugue manages the governance processes around developer test environments established by Unisys, supporting the “guardrails” the company provides around cloud developments to ensure they occur without risk. “It’s not just notification with Fugue. … Instead of a mean time to response of 15 minutes for your monitoring solution … somebody to pick up the notification, then to respond to it, with Fugue within 30 seconds we’ve seen it, we’ve fixed it,” Stella said.

Where Fugue protects customers against breaks, Unisys automates governance to maximize growth. “Expressiveness, being able to articulate the right models and templatize and govern, that’s concern number one,” O’Donoghue said.

Fugue’s recent announcements of expanded support give their customers even more options in cloud transformation. “It used to be to use all the great management features of Fugue you had to build things using Fugue. [Now], you can download the new version of the system, point it at your existing AWS infrastructure, we auto generate code and diagrams to show you what you’re running,” Stella said. The new process allow Fugue customers to import existing infrastructures into Fugue management, enabling the benefits of the companies best practices without requiring a full rebuild.

As the cloud management talent gap threatens to widen, Unisys and Fugue hope to continue using their partnership to help businesses scale migration efforts with safe, cost-effective methods. “Our customers are really struggling with that. … They can do it … but to be able to do it at scale … [and] encapsulating that into templatizing and putting nanny guardrails in are really important,” O’Donoghue concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. (* Disclosure: Fugue sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Fugue nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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