Federal CIOs need help with legacy-to-cloud transition

"Modernization" was one of the watchwords in President Obama's proposal for the federal IT budget in fiscal 2017, and while that broad effort might sound anything but controversial, updating legacy systems entails a host of challenges that agency CIOs are only beginning to work through.[ Related: U.S. CIO aims to cut legacy spending, proposes IT moderization ]Obama called for a $3 billion fund that would directly support agencies' projects to update or replace aging applications and infrastructu