Managing a hybrid cloud environment with applications on-premises and in public cloud is a handful; throw in rapidly evolving development and operations tools and methods, and a pretty confusing maze emerges for information technology personnel to navigate. This is the muddle public-sector organizations and others must navigate as they move to modernize with cloud, DevOps, etc. A comprehensive lens into the total IT environment might help smooth the transition.

Public-sector organizations have a lot of choices to make before migrating to cloud — especially since some of their legacy apps may not be a perfect fit, according to Scott Drossos (pictured, right), president of Infiniti Consulting Group.

“So you have to make a choice — are you going to do some refactoring, rearchitecting before you get it there? Or are you going to get in the cloud now and do it afterwards?” Drossos Asked.

Drossos and Todd Osborne (pictured, left), vice president of of alliances and channels at New Relic Inc., spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C. They discussed modernization trends in the public sector and putting an all-seeing eye on scattered IT. (* Disclosure below.)

20/20 vision across the stack

Various cloud game plans can lead to wins, but companies need to think ahead about which is right for their workloads. Likewise, once apps are dispersed across a number of homes, organizations need easy visibility into their performance, according to Drossos.

Apps themselves are taking on a dizzying number of forms nowadays. “If you’ve got a developer now that has the ability to write code, put it on any cloud they want, spin up containers, spin down containers, go try out serverless … they’ve got a lot of flexibility to do what they want,” Osborne stated.

Additionally, with hectic DevOps deployment cycles, apps are being deployed multiple times a day. “You have to have visibility into everything you’re doing across the stack to be successful in that,” Osborne said.

New Relic offers this visibility with its digital performance monitoring and management software as-a-service, he concluded.

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

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