According to the 2014 Government Accountability Office report, IT spending on cloud services increased only 1 percent among the seven major agencies from 2012 to 2014. Why the slow progress?
Well, agencies are only required to move to the cloud whenever a "secure, reliable, and cost-effective" option exists. It’s a sensible, safe, and fiscally prudent provision. But, many lumbering, legacy technology investments fall outside this mandate.
Forty-seven percent of all government IT applications, for example, run on legacy technology, and almost half of the government’s annual IT budget remains shackled to maintaining them. To release the efficiency and cost savings of a cloud-first government requires a modernized approach to the way it builds, ships, and runs applications.
That’s precisely what we do with Docker.
