Overview

December 14

With government and education organizations tasked with transforming their IT infrastructure quickly and securely, many are leveraging multiple cloud computing platforms. For most agencies, this means they must replace legacy systems with systems suitable for managing multiple cloud application workloads.

A cloud management solution can help agencies to overcome multi-cloud complexity. IT teams can get a holistic overview of every system on a common control plane, and there’s security and intelligence built-in to safeguard data and connect insights.

Join Government Technology and leaders from VMware for a webinar on October 28 to learn how governments can embrace multi-cloud computing with unified management across private, public and hybrid cloud models. During this interactive webinar, experts will discuss how a cloud management solution can help agencies:

Optimize performance to maximize efficiency
Monitor costs to control investment and spending
Secure configurations to manage cybersecurity risks

Speakers

Sean McSpaden — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Senior for Digital Government

Sean McSpaden is an executive level information technology professional with over 30 years of experience in the private, non-profit, and public sectors. His background includes the start-up and management of several small businesses and he has served on the Board of Directors or in Executive Director positions for several 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations. Sean’s public service experience includes progressively responsible positions as an IT analyst, and in statewide coordination, management and leadership positions within the Executive and Legislative branches of Oregon state government. From June 2008 to September 2013, served as the state of Oregon’s Deputy State Chief Information Officer. Throughout his 23-year tenure in Oregon state government, Sean and the teams he has led have received several state, regional and national recognitions and awards. In addition, Sean has represented the state of Oregon on numerous state, regional and national project steering committees, task forces, governing boards, committees, commissions and associations, and has presented on various topics at local, state, regional, national, and international meetings and conferences. Sean earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree and Certificate of Public Management from the Willamette University, Atkinson Graduate School of Management. Sean is an ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), holds a PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, and is a Zachman Certified Enterprise Architect Associate. Sean also holds a Secret level clearance granted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Burt Toma

Vice President and General Manager, VMware Aria Automation

Burt Toma is the VP/GM of the VMware Aria Automation product line. He has significant product leadership experience in cloud operations, infrastructure and security. He has led product teams in the systems management industry for over 20 years, with senior positions held at startups as well at established firms, including BMC Software, Thomson Reuters, and Opsware (acquired by HP). Burt holds a BS and MS from MIT, and an MBA from University of California at Berkeley.

Herb Thompson

SLED Strategist, VMware

Herb is a Senior State, Local and Education Strategist. Having history in various government CIO roles he is responsible for assisting customers achieve their strategic outcomes through understanding their business issues and how policy, process and technology can impact business outcomes. He has been sharing best practices learned from around the country on optimization, workforce modernization and leveraging the cloud. He also is providing insight in practical implementations of shared services, engaging employees, smart communities, and executing a cloud strategy at many government conferences. Prior to joining in 2018, VMware Herb served as the State of Wisconsin Deputy State CIO and CTO, CIO for Health and Family Services and CIO for Corrections.

Webinar

Cut Through Multi-Cloud Complexity: How to Manage All of Your Clouds In One Place