Kelyn Technology

Our CTO Ryan Lake was invited to participate in a recent roundtable talk called the Cloud Exchange 2023, hosted by Federal News Network (FNN). Joining Ryan on the panel included cloud experts and friends of KELYN from AWS and Commvault. FNN’s Jason Miller led the conversation, where he asked the panelists to share their insights on the evolving strategies for successful digital transformation. While most government agencies have done some initial  work implementing cloud adoption, many are still working through this process. You can watch the 15+ minute recorded Cloud Exchange discussion here . Below is a quick summary of some of key points from Ryan Lake of KELYN, Richard Breakiron of Commvault and Sean Phupanich of AWS. Tactic 1: Understand Your Current Infrastructure KELYN Technologies CTO Ryan Lake, emphasized the importance of understanding the current infrastructure. Agencies have a variety of applications, some of which are easier to move to the cloud than others. Commercia...

For many IT professionals, disaster recovery planning is a pain – and a job requirement. Literally dozens of job descriptions outline DR as part of the job, yet it remains a challenge for many. Many organizations struggle with the cost, preparation and accountability of disaster recovery. At the same time, it is essential to any organization that wants to recover from any minor or major emergency and stay in business. Cloud Disaster Recovery: What’s your strategy? Talk with current and former IT leaders about cloud-based disaster recovery and you will hear some truly painful common stories: A telco IT architect spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on a co-location facility, reserving the resources for disaster recovery testing and any actual emergency. Working with multiple backup systems and many storage locations, the telco tested on weekends, reformatted plans and still struggled to make DR a smooth process. An enterprise had a written DR plan, but never tested it. A 7.0 ...