GiGi Schumm,
Vice President and General Manager, Public Sector, Symantec Corp.

We bring an in-depth knowledge to federal agency requirements for privacy and security. Some of the things you see in government are unique and that you don ’t see in the commercial side, such as Common Criteria and FISMA. There are a lot of government standards for such things as data protection and storage and high availability that need to be interpreted for both physical and virtual computer environments. Symantec has solutions that are cross platform and work in all types of environments.

In the government space you see a lot more heterogeneity, because it contains big computer environments that have been built up over many years. You’re going to find a little bit of everything, some virtual and some not, some this platform and some that platform. Having technologies that work across an extremely heterogeneous environment is vital. Symantec has solutions that are road-tested and can scale to whatever size the government needs.

Tom Ruff,
Vice President, Public Sector, Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Akamai has the world ’s largest distributed computing infrastructure platform, and what that does is provide protection to the government’s centralized infrastructure from the repercussions of certain anticipated or unanticipated events that drain their existing resources.

In today’s rich media, well connected society, it’s hard to project workload. In fact it’s almost impossible. We can provide agencies with 100 percent availability while also seeing performance improvement worldwide.  This is a key differentiator that none of our competitors can legitimately claim.   

This worldwide deployment is of importance because agencies are starting to see more and more of their traffic coming from overseas.

Richard W. Johnson,
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions

We have mission and domain knowledge of our customers across the intelligence, military and civil domains. So we feel we are in a good position to walk in our customers ’ shoes, and to help them optimize mission and citizen service delivery and performance through the best infrastructure and secure cloud solutions.

We have been for 16 years in a row the number one provider of IT services to the federal government, and we have a deep understanding of technology and how best to integrate technology based upon the needs of the agency to accomplish their mission and deliver citizen services.