Implementing a Hybrid Cloud Strategy? Here’s how to Address Information...
Federal agencies are beginning to implement hybrid cloud solutions – a blend of public and private clouds and agency-controlled data centers – as the way to achieve all the benefits of a diverse,...
View ArticleIs Your Agency Ready to Move to the Cloud?
For the better part of a decade, federal agencies have been urged to move to the cloud. The Cloud First policy, issued by former federal CIO, Vivek Kundra in February 2011, identified that moving to...
View ArticleFunding IT Modernization for Government Agencies Means Changing How We Think...
The drive to modernize government IT often clashes with the realities of the government’s procurement cycle. One solution – the Technology Modernization Fund, a government program is designed to help...
View ArticleHow Containers are Mitigating Hybrid IT Challenges
Hybrid IT and cloud computing are completely changing the computing landscape, from ownership and payment methods to the way applications are developed. The perfect example of this is the seemingly...
View ArticleIs There an Easy Button for IT Modernization?
The idea of planning and executing the wholesale modernization of an agency’s IT infrastructure is, without a doubt, daunting. But according to Tony Encinias, former CIO of the Commonwealth of...
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Moving to the Cloud? What’s Your Security Strategy?
Seven years ago when the Federal CIO’s office released the Cloud First policy, moving to the cloud seemed like a very complicated and expensive proposition. However, over the course of time and with...
View ArticleData Center as a Service Helps Government Agencies Overcome the Challenges of...
Public sector agencies at the federal, state, and local level are under pressure to carry out large scale IT modernization programs to continue to meet the mission and deliver services to citizens and...
View ArticleGetting Cloud Smart: Three Best Practices for Federal Agencies Pursuing...
Cloud integration is an essential part of a comprehensive digital transformation strategy. More than simply connecting applications and databases, a successful cloud integration platform must...
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Defense Health IT Symposium Showcases Need for Public Cloud Adoption
Public health organizations have been facing challenges with cloud adoption for years, but what once was a security concern has now become a question of having the right architecture in place and the...
View ArticleHow the VA and CMS are Improving the Patient Experience
The Department of Veterans and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid are working hard to improve the patient experience for their constituents. But what steps are they taking to deliver not only affordable...
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“It’s About the Speed to Mission” – USDA Leveraging FedRamp to Deliver...
Today’s world is propelled forward by innovation, data, and experience. It’s no different for government agencies that must house and analyze large amounts of data, innovate to deliver on the mission,...
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USPS and State of Arizona Leveraging Cloud to Drive Innovation
Like the United States Postal Service (USPS) and State of Arizona, government agencies rely on an array of infrastructures to deliver on their mission – many of these being legacy systems. While...
View ArticleEnabling the Federal Cloud
Agency leaders and the Office of Management and Budget find the business case for cloud computing simply too compelling to ignore. Frontline IT professionals, on the other hand, understand that cloud...
View ArticleCloud Without Compromise for the US Federal Government
Interested in migrating data and applications to the cloud but have questions about performance, security and availability? Learn how IBM Softlayer, with its high-performance US-located data centers...
View ArticleCloud Built to Perform
Cloud computing means unobstructed access to the computing resources needed to provision, develop, fulfill or support a business objective. In short, cloud can be a platform built to perform. Today’s...
View ArticleSoftLayer Private Clouds
Government agencies often have data that belongs in the cloud to facilitate processing, data set usage and to reduce on-site storage costs, but the risks associated with moving data to the cloud often...
View ArticleTips for Implementing Hybrid Cloud Solutions in 3 Scenarios
This article was authored and contributed by Kong Yang, Head Geek at SolarWinds. Transitioning portions of IT applications and services into the cloud is something that’s starting to become a part of...
View ArticleBest Practices for IT Asset Discovery
Asset discovery has risen to become a critical aspect of managing and securing federal IT environments thanks to new federal mandates, data-center consolidation initiatives, and security requirements....
View ArticleIT Consolidation: What’s Next for Government Modernization Initiatives?
IT consolidation has been a high-priority federal initiative for many years. Yet today, a range of federal mandates are serving as catalysts for increased widespread data center consolidations,...
View ArticleFederal News Roundup: Insights from Fed Forum 2016
The Brocade Federal Forum was hosted in Washington, DC this week and brought together a number of industry and federal IT leaders to discuss how they are facing current challenges and opportunities...
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