Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is an industry term, and it is also sometimes referred to as desktop as a service. VDI addresses the growing challenges and, as a result, is catching on in a big way. Download this whitepaper to read more about how virtual desktops can cut costs and improve uptime.
Sponsored By SwishData, NetApp
A standard way of representing both DoDAF and Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (MODAF from the United Kingdom) architectures in UML® was developed under the auspices of the Object Management Group (OMG®). This emerging standard is known as the UML Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM). The mappings described in this paper will no doubt be similar to those in the UPDM standard, but may differ in some details.
Sponsored By IBM
More effective government requires leveraging technological advancements that deliver next-generation services in a more efficient and transparent way. Learn how to rein in maintenance costs and extend the life, flexibility and value of your existing applications.
Sponsored By IBM
Decipher the language of the telecom world. Get your copy of The Telco Glossary now. It’s a handy guide to help you talk shop with the best of them!!
Sponsored By Ciena
The IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance is a high performance analytics platform, built to support the efficient application of advanced analytic tools such as LYNXeon. IBM Netezza helps organizations to move from a reactive network strategy to a continuous and predictive strategy for anomaly detection in all types of network traffic.
Sponsored By IBM
Much like Global Positioning Systems (GPS) redefined how people get from A to B when they became commercialized and popularized several years ago, geospatial is changing how the U.S. government operates. Download this special report to learn how geospatial technology helps the government better protect the United States at home and abroad by providing detailed maps of natural and manmade terrain.
Sponsored By DLT Solutions
WAN optimization boosts data traffic across geographic distances. While the primary tools have been around for a decade, agencies are increasingly turning to WAN optimization to speed the delivery of applications from a centralized data center to branch offices, or back up data to an off-site facility. Read more to learn the benefits of WAN optimization.
Sponsored By CDW-G
Many technology leaders worry about their organization’s ability to keep up with change. To meet today’s unpredictable challenges, changing requirements and technical growth areas, a modular data center design and strategy can yield significant benefits that provide flexibility to match short-term capacity requirements with long-term growth, and do so in a cost-effective manner. Read this white paper to learn more.
Sponsored By IBM
IT Schedule 70 is an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple Award Schedule(MAS) contract. It is the largest procurement vehicle and the most widely-used acquisition offering in the federal government, offering a comprehensive array of state-ofthe-art IT products, services, and solutions through more than 5,000 contract holders. Download this custom report to learn how agencies are tapping into the IT Schedule 70 for cloud, mobility, cybersecurity, and other emerging technology needs.
Sponsored By PC Mall Gov
Integrate new cybersecurity solutions with your physical security measures to create a fully secure infrastructure. Read this white paper and learn how IBM can help you proactively protect your agency’s critical applications from cyber attacks and identify the parties attempting to breach your security.
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Changing agency mindsets on information sharing from “need to know” to “need to share” has been as hard as was expected. Though there have been stumbles along the way, government finally seems to be getting there.
Sponsored By Verizon Wireless
Download this whitepaper to learn about a data performance technology that makes it easier than ever to maintain optimum system performance on all Windows systems at all times. From workstations and servers throughout an entire network to SAN attached storage environments. Read more to learn about a way to make computer systems faster, more reliable, with longer life and improved energy efficiency, all with zero overhead.
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
Government executives expressed widespread concern about data leakage, whether caused by malicious actions or accidental missteps, according to an online survey of 209 executives, conducted by 1105 Government Information Group Content Solutions, although few of those surveyed believe their current agency data protection measures fail to measure up. Download this research report to learn the results of this survey.
Sponsored By CDW-G
Traditional techniques for managing and getting useful information out of data won’t easily address the current explosion. Big Data is aimed handling all of this, and it’s something government is already grappling with.
Sponsored By Merlin, NetApp
Data center modernization should be a focus for all agencies that are looking to cut IT costs and improve efficiencies. In this whitepaper, an industry expert of the field explains what the practical aspects of modernization involve, the intangibles that agencies will need to grapple with, and what other capabilities a successful modernization can provide. Download now to learn more.
Sponsored By DLT, Quest Software
Big data refers to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of typical tools to capture, store, manage and analyze. By now it’s clear the world is entering a new era of big scale data requirements in which the amount of data processed and stored by all organizations, both in the public and private sectors, is breaking every architectural construct in the storage industry today. Download this whitepaper to learn more about addressing your agency's big data challenges.
Sponsored By VetDS, NetApp
UC solutions offer government organizations the opportunity to reduce costs, enhance productivity and increase mobility. The U.S. government’s ongoing preference for operating expenses over capital investments is likely to lure even diehard organizations with legacy communications infrastructures to hosted UC cloud services.
Sponsored By Level 3 Communications
Wide-area network (WAN) optimization is designed to boost data traffic over long distances. However, with the necessity to improve end-user application performance, but juggle cost-cutting consolidation requirements, challenges mount. In this special report, learn about WAN optimization techniques such as compression, deduplication and traffic prioritization.
Sponsored By Merlin, Riverbed Technology
As federal agencies work to meet data center consolidation goals, it is important to consider the role of the physical infrastructure. This paper defines ways to optimize your agency's physical infrastructure to support critical consolidation efforts.
Sponsored By Panduit
Gain insight into core technology decisions needed to successfully design and deploy a sustainable, smart building that delivers tangible infrastructure and business process improvements, as well as increased operational efficiencies.
Sponsored By Panduit
Scale-out storage technologies have rapidly gained popularity over the past several years, successfully crossing the chasm from niche technology to mainstream enterprise solutions. As this shift occurs, an increasing number of enterprises are seeking to understand the advantages of the newer technology when it comes to the storage of exploding amounts of unstructured data.
Sponsored By Red Hat
With agency IT budgets under pressure, server virtualization and its proven ability to cut costs and maximize efficiencies has become a standard way of doing things in the data center. Now the focus is switching to the desktop to see if similar gains can be made there.
Sponsored By Iron Bow
Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) wireless solutions are an ideal way to backhaul video imaging systems for public safety and surveillance purposes, national security and intelligence. This whitepaper will explore the vital role that wireless solutions play for government agencies.
Sponsored By BridgeWave Communications
Business Intelligence - turning measurements into actionable information - is a crucial tool for performance management and optimization. Readers will learn about the key challenges agencies face in accessing and analyzing data.
Sponsored By QlikTech
Though still a niche market, rugged IT will take on a different role as mobile and portable systems take more prominence in agency planning. The effect of likely budget cuts is unclear, but longer-term changes to systems procurement will affect rugged vendors, maybe for the better.
Sponsored By Panasonic
Cloud adoption is on the rise. Nearly four out of 10 respondents to a recent survey has either adopted cloud computing or are in the process of adopting it for at least one process or application. As they have learned more about cloud computing, they have gained a more mature perspective on the benefits and risks. In this research report, learn more about those benefits, which type of cloud is most popular and what is their biggest concern.
Sponsored By Brocade
The Core Values and Core Characteristics of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs demand highly efficient and accurate business processes that can serve Veterans quickly and adjust to the resources and communication capabilities with which each Veteran is most comfortable. Read this white paper and learn how document capture driven business process automation enables this level of efficiency in processing Veterans’ claims, enabling VA to better service the needs of Veterans and adhere to its Core Values (“I CARE”).
Sponsored By Kofax Inc
The first edition of The Telco Acronyms Guide, is a handy guide to help you decipher the telecom industry’s acronym alphabet soup. Inside, you’ll find over 2,000 entries!
Sponsored By Ciena
Learn why it is critical for government agencies to have a cloud-computing strategy. Read this Cisco white paper to see how a comprehensive architectural approach can help you design an effective, secure cloud-based model that best suits your needs.
Sponsored By Cisco
Network visibility enables organization to understand what is happening on their networks and how all the parts work together. It provides a reliable method for consolidating systems, adding security and saving money. Learn about the challenges and solutions facing IT managers in this special report.
Sponsored By LTI DataComm, Riverbed Technology, Inc.
With healthcare reform now a priority, emphasizing efficiency in the delivery of care and a need to move faster is at the forefront of the healthcare system. IT is recognized as a key lever to reducing costs and raising quality in healthcare. Learn more about health analytics and new healthcare models in this special report.
Sponsored By Northrop Grumman
In federal agencies, IT is being asked to do more with less, while also ensuring transparency, improving citizen services, enhancing performance and increasing accountability. Learn how federal IT used leading APM tools to address these challenges.
Sponsored By Compuware
This paper examines how the insertion of a Layer 2 switching capability, based on carrier-class Ethernet, can improve the overall security of network services and reduce overall risk to the warfighter.
Sponsored By Ciena
Read this whitepaper to learn how cloud service brokers simplify cloud security integration and implementation
Sponsored By McAfee
Download this informative how-to-guide and learn innovative tactics for deploying high performing data centers which can enable agency and IT growth.
Sponsored By IBM
Read this white paper and learn how your agency can dissuade credential abuse while helping customs, border management and law enforcement organizations ensure the safety and security of citizens and workers.
Sponsored By IBM
This white paper examines how project trends have a direct impact on project performance as well as overall business performance, and look at the areas of project management that executives at project-driven organizations must focus on in order to address these challenges.
Sponsored By Oracle
IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager helps organizations automatically manage patches for multiple operating systems and applications across hundreds of thousands of endpoints regardless of location, connection type or status.
Sponsored By IBM
Discover how to leverage advanced analytics to help your agency address challenges such as risk, visibility, globalization and cost containment in this newly-released whitepaper.
Sponsored By IBM
This whitepaper provides an overview of key drivers for data center optimization in the federal government.
Sponsored By DLT
Budget issues are not the only struggle agencies encounter. Efficiently managing data - and for the least cost - can also be a challenge.
Sponsored By DLT
With IBM Rational solutions, cities and their partners are merging physical and digital assets in an interconnected and intelligent way to create a citizen-centered approach and make the smarter city vision a reality.
Sponsored By IBM
This analyst white paper describes the challenges of transforming to stakeholder-centric or citizen-centric service delivery, and highlights the crucial roles that key business and IT capabilities play for any public sector organization.
Sponsored By IBM
AMD creates a private cloud to increase its own productivity, improve accessibility, lower costs and maintain its position as industry innovator.
Sponsored By AMD
A new report sponsored by Oracle and researched by the Economist Intelligence Unit highlights how federal agencies are refining project management practices after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found multiple areas within agencies where programs were duplicated and funds could be saved.
Sponsored By Oracle
Download this solution brief to learn how to obtain the benefits of a cloud-like data center infrastructure, while addressing the challenges of complexity, latency, security, and interoperability.
Sponsored By Juniper Networks
Is your organization positioned to weather the major workforce shift that will transform the composition of the aerospace and defense industry? Gain insight on resource management capabilities that can help you maximize the use of the available talent pool while planning for the future.
Sponsored By Oracle
This whitepaper explores the new trends and best practices why innovative businesses are turning to cloud computing.
Sponsored By IBM
By aggregating supply chain data across heterogeneous environments, and tying operational dependencies and relationships between metrics, agencies are able to react faster to problems and risks, reduce cycle times and effectively balance strategic cost and fulfillment objectives.
Sponsored By SAP