Rob Groat, Executive Vice President, Technology & Strategy, Smartronix & Anthony Vultaggio, Chief Technology Officer, Smartronix virtually connect with Jeff Frick for AWS re:Invent 2020. #theCUBE #reInvent #AWS https://siliconangle.com/2020/12/10/app-modernization-management-services-help-secure-highly-regulated-industries-reinvent/ App modernization and management services help secure highly regulated industries BY DENISE NELSON Compliance is still difficult in regulated industries, particularly in the U.S. public sector. Defense and national security agencies want to modernize their apps and find new ways to embrace the cloud and transform the way they deliver services but are challenged with the cumbersome components of security, compliance and operation. That’s where managed service providers such as Smartronix Inc. come in. Smartronix provides next generation multicloud platforms to highly regulated and security-first organizations. “While two years ago organizations were looking at how to move their digital state from on-premise to the cloud, now they’re looking at how to achieve value in the cloud,” said Rob Groat (pictured, left), executive vice president of technology and strategy at Smartronix. “They want to get to that pace of innovation that the cloud provides.” Groat and Anthony Vultaggio (pictured, right), chief technology officer of Smartronix, spoke with Jeff Frick, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during AWS re:Invent. They discussed the critical need for development agility within the context of national security, how the cloud and authorized services help compliance-driven organizations stay ahead of foreign adversaries, and how Smartronix helps these organizations continuously optimize their portfolios to deliver agile services rapidly. (* Disclosure below.) U.S. public sector fights to stay ahead of foreign actors The slope of disruption is correlated to the pace of innovation. Companies building technical debt releasing a less-than-perfect product for the sake of meeting a deadline, which then requires more time spent to improve the product, will continue to fall behind. This is what was happening with Smartronix customers in the past, according to Groat. “It might be OK for Blockbuster to fall behind Netflix or Uber to disrupt an industry, but for our customers there are national security consequences when they fall behind,” Groat stated. “We have to create a platform and the capability that enables them to innovate and deliver very agile services rapidly.” For defense and national security organizations, velocity and scale of cloud has become critical for digital transformation and the ability to stay ahead of foreign actors. “Looking at the nation’s adversaries we’re facing now, information is information warfare,” Vultaggio said. “Using the scale and power of the cloud, as well as all these authorized services that are offered by Amazon … enables them to complete that mission with speed and agility to [address] foreign adversaries.” Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. (* Disclosure: Smartronix Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Smartronix nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)