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Melanie Marsh

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.

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

Swetha Nandyala

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.

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).

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.

Swetha Nandyala

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

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

Swetha Nandyala

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.
playbook

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.
AI Security

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.
cloud culture

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.  
modernized legacy systems

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.
Microsoft Azure for Government - digital cloud graphic

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.
landing zone

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.
multi-cloud transformation

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.
readiness assessments

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.
custom compliance scanning

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.
center of excellence cloud

Samtek Team

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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