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.
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
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
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.
Legacy Modernization: 40% Cost Reduction Without Downtime
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.
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.
Our Capabilities
Service Capabilities
Technology Stack
Delivery Models
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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