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Finding an Interoperability Steward- FHIR and the GAO
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Finding an Interoperability Steward: FHIR and the GAO

The FHIR Connectathon tests whether interoperability standards work; the GAO's eligibility-data report asks who's accountable for enforcing them. Samtek unpacks why meeting the 2027 FHIR deadline is as much a governance challenge as a technical one - and what an interoperability foundation built to last actually looks like.
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Rupak Desai

Founder & CEO

Investing in Growth & Maturity

Sustainable growth requires maturity. For founder-led firms scaling in the federal market, that means investing in the people, processes, tools, and operating disciplines that convert growth into maturity. In this post, Samtek Founder & CEO Rupak Desai reflects on why investing in organizational maturity has been essential to the growth of Samtek.
Data Leaks_ Small Settings Can Have Major Security Impacts
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Samtek Team

Data Leaks: Small Settings Can Have Major Security Impacts

Reducing data leakage by avoiding small configuration mistakes or oversights can have a major impact on security and can help organizations reduce overall risk. Read this blog to learn how to avoid many real-world scenarios that involve data leaks by taking the time to consider the "small" things.
Building Influence Without Authority in Cloud-Native Teams
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Vijay Senapathi

Building Influence Without Authority in Cloud-Native Teams

Modern technologists can build influence without formal authority. This blog explores ways to build influence, including treating credibility as currency, investing in other teams’ success, communicating in the language of the audience, leading with data, and using disagreement as a relationship asset.
Data Leaks_ Why Training Matters for Prevention
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Vaishnavi Kandala

Data Leaks: Why Training Matters for Prevention

Emerging threats and the rise of AI push organizations toward the most cost-effective risk-mitigation strategy—security awareness and training. This blog explains why humans are the weakest link, the common attacks organizations face, and a security approach that ensures lessons are learned and security is continuously emphasized to reduce data leaks caused by human error.
Driving Cloud Transformation Delivery Manager Best Practices in a Multi-Cloud World
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Patrick Hendren

Driving Cloud Transformation: Delivery Manager Best Practices in a Multi-Cloud World

Cloud transformation is about more than moving workloads—it requires strong delivery practices, clear ownership, and alignment across teams. Read practical best practices for Delivery Managers navigating multi-cloud environments, from connecting technology initiatives to business outcomes and managing migrations end-to-end to strengthening automation, security, and operational readiness.
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Scott Case

4 Habits for Effective Collaboration Between Cloud Engineers 

Effective collaboration is essential for cloud engineering teams navigating fast-moving, complex environments. This blog explores four practical habits that help teams stay aligned, share expertise, and build more resilient cloud solutions.
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Prashanth Valupadasu

Root Cause Analysis: Improving Systems and Team Trust

Cloud issues often start small. A failed request. An access issue. Something just not right. Read more to learn how to see incidents as opportunities to improve the system instead of interruptions. It’s a mindset that can turn your team from reactive to resilient.
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Parshwa Kikani

Building Better Troubleshooting Mindsets in Cloud Teams 

Cloud environments are powerful, but their complexity can make troubleshooting overwhelming for engineering teams. When issues arise, the challenge isn't just fixing the symptom — it's understanding the system behind it. This blog explains how cloud engineers can develop stronger troubleshooting mindsets that improve reliability, reduce downtime, and strengthen team trust. 
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Roopesh Kelambeth

Helping CMS ADOs Realize the True Potential of Cloud

Cloud at CMS is more than a hosting change—it's a chance to modernize, strengthen, and improve how mission critical applications serve millions of beneficiaries. In our latest blog, we walk through how CMS Application Development Organizations (ADOs) can use CMS Hybrid Cloud, Zero Trust Architecture, and FinOps practices to move beyond “lift and shift” and realize the full value of cloud. CMS Cloud is an excellent case study for other federal agencies, across government, to consider as they chart their own cloud modernization journey.
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Nerris Zeuzeko

What Ownership Really Means for Cloud Engineers

Cloud infrastructure can fail even with a skilled technical team. When leaders design an environment that subtly nudges engineers toward action—through clear expectations, supportive processes, and the right tools—ownership becomes the default, not the exception.
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Scott Case

Decision-Making Under Pressure: A 9-Step Cloud Ops Playbook

IT Operations teams are thrust into one of the toughest challenges any organization can face: making critical decisions under intense pressure. Follow our 9-step playbook below to help your Ops team have the frameworks and tools they need to respond to incidents before they happen.
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Scott Case

Handle Cross-Functional Conflicts When Cloud Priorities Compete

Most cloud problems are not purely technical. There are priority conflicts between Cloud Engineering, Operations, Security, and the business that surface years after early decisions were made.
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Scott Case

How to Communicate Complex Cloud Architectures to Non-Technical Stakeholders

Non-technical stakeholders don’t want to decode architecture diagrams—they want to understand impact. Our latest blog shares seven practical ways cloud engineers can use early communication, sprint demos, visuals, and plain language to explain complex cloud architectures so stakeholders can confidently support, fund, and champion the work.
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Scott Case

The Art of Writing Clear Documentation for Cloud Engineers

In cloud environments, documentation isn’t just a supporting artifact; it's a critical part of operational excellence. Good documentation clear, living, centralized, .and accessible.
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Melanie Marsh

Vice President, Growth

Avoiding 5 Mistakes Small Businesses Make with Federal Proposals

In federal contracting, the line between experience and expertise can make or break a win. Many small businesses bring plenty of experience to the table but still fall short in developing proposals because they haven’t turned that experience into true mastery.
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Andrew Deakin

From Intern to Engineer: 5 Lessons I Learned During My Samtek Internship

In 2024, Andrew Deakin joined Samtek as an intern, and now he’s a full-time engineer! Here are five things Andrew learned in the process of being an intern
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Swetha Nandyala

Vice President, Technology & Solutions

The Human Side of Enterprise Cloud Engineering

Empathy is one of the most important and most underrated skills in cloud engineering. In addition to managing infrastructure, cloud engineers also need to support people operating under pressure in potentially stressful environments. Understanding the human side is the key to successful support and avoiding frustration.
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Scott Case

Responsible AI in the Cloud: What Cloud Developers Need to Get Right

As AI is shaping the future of healthcare, cloud developers need to take the responsibility of protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI).
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Andrew Deakin

3 Ways to Build Multi-Cloud Automation that Lasts 

Future-proof cloud automation with a reusable multi-cloud design. Learn how modular workflows, cloud-agnostic tools, and a single automation control point help you avoid vendor lock-in and simplify deployments across providers.
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Swetha Nandyala

Vice President, Technology & Solutions

Program Management’s Strategic Evolution

Traditional project and program management practices that simply track schedules and status aren’t optimized for today’s complex, distributed, and high-stakes technology environment. Learn how modern program managers drive strategic outcomes by enabling cross-functional alignment, data-informed decisions, and organizational agility.
Celebrating 7 Years of Service and a New Chapter
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Samtek Team

Celebrating 7 Years of Service & A New Chapter

This month, Samtek is proud to celebrate a special milestone: our 7th anniversary delivering reliable, innovative IT solutions to our federal partners.
Delivering Clarity & Efficiency by Modernizing Cloud Configuration Systems
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Swetha Nandyala

Vice President, Technology & Solutions

Delivering Clarity & Efficiency by Modernizing Cloud Configuration Systems

Learn how Samtek’s modern cloud configuration system solves common inventory challenges. Discover how our S3-based data lake and AI-powered interface delivers real-time insight and improved efficiency, making cloud management easier.
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Awase Ahmed

7 Steps to Creating an Effective Playbook

When incidents occur in a cloud environment, it's critical that everyone knows how to act to ensure a reliable response and swift resolution. The playbook is one key tool to help guide a user through all the steps necessary to make a full recovery.
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Jonathan Shea

Adopt AI Responsibly with Proactive AI Security

With AI becoming increasingly important in everyday workflows, AI security is an urgent issue, especially for organizations handling sensitive data. These 4 key elements to adopting a proactive AI security posture will help you use AI effectively and safely. Read the full post to learn more.
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Samtek Team

Cloud Culture & the Samtek Difference 

When problems arise in a cloud adoption effort, the cause tends to be issues associated with an organization’s culture, rather than actual issues with the technology itself. To prevent these issues, organizations need to foster a cloud culture with the right team structures and capabilities.  
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Samtek Team

Modernizing Legacy Systems: A Roadmap for Government Innovation

Even though we have relied upon them for a long time, aging legacy applications can cause a wide variety of problems. Application modernization is essential to achieving secure, resilient, and citizen-centric government operations.
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Samtek Team

Advancing the Government’s Cloud Modernization Story with Microsoft Azure

Federal agencies face the challenge of modernizing while meeting strict security and compliance mandates across hybrid environments. Samtek's comprehensive Azure for Government services help agencies meet their mission objectives with greater speed, security, and efficiency—while ensuring continuous improvement, cost optimization, and compliance.
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Samtek Team

Landing Zone Automation at Scale

Landing zones are a critical part of today’s cloud environments. Because agencies need upwards of thousands of landing zones operationalized, manual deployment can't keep up with demand. Automating the landing zone deployment process can lead to rapid delivery, enhanced cybersecurity, and better costs.
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Samtek Team

Lessons Learned from Large-Scale Multi-Cloud Transformations in the Government

As a trusted partner in large scale multi-cloud transformations in Federal IT, Samtek has faced many challenges and learned many lessons. These lessons can help both government and commercial environments have more successful transformations.
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Samtek Team

Cloud Readiness Assessments for the Government

A Cloud Readiness Assessment (CRA) can help you prevent budget overruns and operational failures before you decide to bring an application to the cloud. Samtek offers a CRA to evaluate your agency’s technical, operational, and security posture before migrating to help ensure success.
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Samtek Team

Automating Custom Compliance Scanning in AWS

Current AWS-provided instance compliance scanning is limited to the vanilla profiles within Amazon Inspector. However, Samtek can build a solution that leverages the document by deploying an SSM Automation Association that runs various Chef InSpec profiles against multiple operating systems within the environment.
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Establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence

A mature Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) can help align your agency’s organizational mission, compliance needs, workforce structure, and hybrid/multi-cloud goals. Samtek works closely with you to develop a CCoE that aligns with agency priorities in both purpose and scope. To see a high-level overview of the services we provide to establish a CCoE, check out the full post.

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