Cloud
Establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence
Background Samtek assists customers in establishing and operationalizing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE). We offer advisory and implementation services to design, stand up, and mature a CCoE that aligns with the...
Automating Custom Compliance Scanning in AWS
What problem are we trying to solve? The current state of AWS-provided instance compliance scanning is limited to the vanilla profiles available within Amazon Inspector for various operating systems. However,...
Command Line Fu
Alright, maybe the title is a little pretentious, but hopefully this isn’t a total disappointment. So if you have been on a linux or mac system as your main workstation...
Cloud Readiness Assessments for the Government
Background Federal mandates like the Cloud Smart Strategy (OMB, 2019) require agencies to modernize IT systems, moving to cloud "when it makes sense" — not blindly. Cloud Readiness Assessments help objectively determine whether an application, system,...
Lessons Learned from Large Scale Multi Cloud Transformations in the Government
Background Ever since our founding, Samtek has been a trusted partner to the Federal Government in performing large scale Multi-Cloud Transformations. We have learned many lessons along the way, that...
Landing Zone Automation at Scale
In today's federal and enterprise cloud environments, scalability, governance, and operational speed are mission-critical. Agencies and enterprises must operationalize hundreds—or even thousands—of Landing Zones quickly, securely, and consistently. Traditional manual approaches to Landing...
Advancing the Government’s Cloud Modernization Story with Microsoft Azure
At Samtek, our mission is to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant cloud solutions that help federal agencies achieve their modernization goals. Through our work supporting the adoption and operation of...
Modernizing Legacy Systems: A Roadmap for Government Innovation
Background Legacy systems have long formed the backbone of government operations. However, in today’s dynamic, digital-first environment, aging applications are increasingly an impediment to agility, security, compliance, and citizen service...