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Modernize Your Infrastructure. Maintain Your Security Posture.

Legacy on-premise infrastructure is not just a technical problem — it is a mission liability. VDS designs and executes cloud migrations that eliminate compliance risk, cut operating costs, and build the scalable foundation your modern applications and AI workloads require. We have maintained FedRAMP authorization through live migrations — not after the fact.

40% cost reduction
Average infrastructure operating cost savings achieved post-migration
99.9% uptime SLA
Maintained through cutover and post-migration steady-state operations
Zero compliance gaps
FedRAMP and FISMA controls implemented and validated before go-live, not after
<90 day migration
Average time-to-cloud for mid-size agency systems using our phased approach
The Challenge

Why This Matters

Legacy on-premise systems create compliance risk, slow delivery cycles, and inflate operational costs for agencies. The longer modernization is delayed, the larger the technical debt grows — and the more budget is consumed keeping old systems running instead of funding mission activities.

Aging on-prem infrastructure creating FedRAMP and FISMA compliance gaps that auditors flag

Infrastructure costs consuming 40–60% of IT budget that should fund mission capability

IT teams stretched maintaining legacy systems with no capacity to deliver new value

Buyer Fit

Who This Is For

Federal Agency CIOs modernizing legacy on-premise infrastructure under OMB mandates

CFOs seeking to redirect infrastructure spend toward mission-critical capabilities

CISO teams carrying FedRAMP or FISMA compliance gaps from a recent audit

Program managers inheriting architecture debt from systems built before cloud-native patterns

How We Work

Our Approach

Cloud Readiness Assessment

Inventory current systems, assess dependencies, and define migration strategy with risk scoring.

Strategy & Architecture

Design target-state cloud architecture with security, compliance, and cost optimization baked in.

Migration Execution

Phased migration using lift-and-shift, re-platform, or re-architect patterns based on system complexity.

Security & Compliance

FedRAMP authorization support, FISMA controls implementation, and continuous monitoring automation.

Optimize & Govern

Cost optimization, multi-cloud governance, and FinOps practices post-migration to sustain savings.

Case StudyFederal Health Agency

Legacy Modernization: 40% Cost Reduction Without Downtime

Challenge

An HHS-adjacent health agency was running critical constituent data systems on aging on-premise infrastructure, carrying FedRAMP compliance gaps identified in a recent audit and an annual maintenance burden exceeding $4M.

Solution

VDS designed a phased migration to AWS GovCloud, implementing FedRAMP security controls from day one and executing a blue-green deployment strategy that eliminated downtime risk. Security controls were automated through Terraform and validated against FISMA Low baselines before any production traffic was cut over.

Results
40% reduction in annual infrastructure operating costs
99.9% uptime maintained through full migration cutover
FedRAMP authorization maintained with zero audit findings
All FISMA Low controls automated and continuously monitored
What We Offer

Our Capabilities

Service Capabilities

Cloud Readiness Assessment
Lift-and-Shift Migration
Re-platforming & Re-architecting
FedRAMP Authorization Support
FISMA Controls Implementation
Multi-Cloud Governance
FinOps & Cost Optimization
Disaster Recovery Planning

Technology Stack

AWS GovCloudAzure GovernmentGoogle CloudTerraformKubernetesDocker

Delivery Models

Managed Team
Dedicated VDS team aligned to your mission goals and outcomes.
Project-Based
Fixed-scope delivery with defined milestones and measurable outcomes.
The VDS Difference

Proof, Not Promises

Security is not a checkbox we bolt on after migration — it is our starting point. VDS has navigated FedRAMP and FISMA compliance from initial architecture through authorization, on live federal programs. We have achieved 40% infrastructure cost reductions and maintained 99.9% uptime through cutover — on production systems serving real agency missions. Our approach is phased, documented, and built to pass your next audit on day one.

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