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Mitigating the Risks of IT Change – Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping with Riverbed Cascade

Feb 06, 2012

The success of many IT change projects – data center consolidations, disaster recovery, private cloud, and virtualization initiatives – is dependent on effective IT planning and decision making.


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Leveraging Collaboration Tools to Lower Costs, Do More With Less

Feb 03, 2012

The ongoing efforts to reduce expenses throughout government are forcing agencies and departments to explore all available avenues to enable greater use of collaboration tools and services, as a way to lower travel, real estate and energy expenses. Learn more in this report.


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FISMA Compliance through Centralized Identity & Access Management Leveraging Active Directory

Jan 26, 2012

While FISMA compliance is a complex process, the core IAM requirements are well established principles that can be addressed through centralized management, policy enforcement and continuous monitoring. Learn how to address these requirements by leveraging existing Active Directory infrastructure to centrally manage non-Windows systems and applications.


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Is Your Network Ready for IT’s New Role in the Federal Government

Jan 26, 2012

As the Federal government ushers in a new era of technology for agencies, IT managers must ensure their networks are prepared to meet the latest requirements. In this research report, learn what the top priorities are for IT managers over the next 12 to 18 months and how they are going to implement new initiatives.


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Strategic Solutions for Government IT

Jan 26, 2012

The U.S. government is transforming its IT strategy to streamline operations and smooth the transition to the data center of the future. Learn how to ensure application and network security, performance, and availability while driving toward those goals.


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Confusion Guidance for Replacing Tape with Disk for Backups

Jan 25, 2012

When evaluating different approaches to replacing tape with disk, take the time to ask the right questions and understand the strengths and weaknesses of each alternative.


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Transforming Agency Mobility

Jan 24, 2012

New innovations, technologies and best practices for meeting and managing mobile needs are changing rapidly. In this report, learn from the experts what organizations need to consider when it comes to mobile device management.


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Continuous Monitoring for Government Agencies

Jan 24, 2012

The federal government is implementing FISMA 2.0 along with a continuous monitoring process to help agencies improve their security grades and lower overall risk. Learn how the QRadar Security Intelligence Platform provides the functions required as part of a continuous monitoring program including SIEM, risk management, log management, and network behavior analytics.


Making Critical Connections: Predictive Analytics in Government

Jan 23, 2012

Predictive analytics is enabling government agencies to detect patterns in large, complex datasets and make critical connections to minimize or eliminate potential threats to the public good.


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Secure Virtualization with sVirt

Jan 18, 2012

Virtualization improves scalability, uptime, and use of limited resources. With its unique architecture and NSA-developed security, Red Hat Secure Virtualization (sVirt) is the industry’s most comprehensive security solution for virtualization.


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Virtualization for Servers: Pricing Guide

Jan 18, 2012

This paper compares the pricing of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with VMware vSphere5 for server virtualization. Both the Red Hat subscription pricing and the VMware license and support pricing are explained along with detailed comparisons.


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Virtualization, KVM, and the Path to Cloud Computing

Jan 18, 2012

With virtual machine deployments already exceeding physical server shipments and virtualized workloads exceeding nonvirtualized workloads in the installed base, virtual is clearly the new normal in IT. This IDC whitepaper begins with the history of virtualization, Open Sourcing KVM Management, and the next wave in virtualization—the cloud.


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Data Center Optimization

Jan 16, 2012

Under pressure to consolidate data centers, many government IT managers are focusing on hardware utilization. From state and local governments to the Defense Department and civilian agencies, IT managers are feeling the pressure to squeeze more capacity out of their servers, storage devices and other expensive pieces of hardware. In this research report, learn how several techniques can help agencies maximize their IT investments, including data center optimization and server virtualization.


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Virtualization: Game Changing Technology to Meet Agency Missions

Jan 13, 2012

To meet oversight agencies’ pressures to do more with less, federal agencies are turning to virtualization, a method by which they can decrease their physical information technology inventory while maintaining or even improving operational capabilities. In this report, learn how agencies have either begun to use virtualization strategies or are getting ready to do so.


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Improving Federal Information Access Security with FIPS-Certified Solutions

Jan 09, 2012

This paper, by IDC Government Insights, explores how federal agencies can effectively control who has access to systems and information while still ensuring IT services and remotely-hosted applications remain readily available to valid users and government knowledge workers.


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Federal IT: Consolidating Your Data Securely in a Cloud

Dec 20, 2011

The decision on how to execute a consolidation will depend on the applications an agency has, their varying levels of importance, their connection to one another and the agency’s environment. Learn more about the progress being made in data center consolidation and cloud migration in this brief.


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A Closer Look at Ongoing Federal Data Center Consolidation Efforts

Dec 13, 2011

Slashing Waste and Inefficiencies, Focusing on Improving Services - Agencies are being forced to shut down data centers that are no longer needed and enhancing those that remain in an effort to optimize operations and stop wasteful spending. In this report, learn how agencies are dealing with the mounting pressure to comply and what solutions they are using.


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Integrated and Automated Budget, Program and Performance Reporting

Dec 07, 2011

Read this paper to learn how IBM Cognos FSR with TM1 helps budget and finance teams to automate the generation of complex, process driven reports while maintaining the agency’s current business processes and disclosure management requirements.


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Improve Business Performance in a Project-Intensive World

Dec 01, 2011

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.


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CyberSecurity Assessment Brief: How to Maintain Insight, Respond Quickly and Plan Proactively

Dec 01, 2011

Cyber-attackers have now learned how to exploit user trust by masquerading as social networking friends, business associates, or trusted acquaintances – spreading millions of new strains of malware each year. Learn how to effectively safeguard your networks with real-time cyberanalytic tools.


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Transform agency Ops with Advanced Mobility Solutions

Dec 01, 2011

6 minutes, that’s all it will take to learn the key points for transforming your agency’s operations with advanced mobile solutions. Read about mobile device management, custom mobile app development and other offerings here.


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Three Demographic Mega-Trends to Transform the Aerospace and Defense Workforce

Dec 01, 2011

Three demographic mega-trends promise to transform the composition of the Aerospace & Defense workforce. In this informative whitepaper from Oracle, learn about these trends and how they are beginning to take effect, driving imbalances that are rippling through a number of talent markets.


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Data Loss Prevention: When Mobile Device Management Alone Isn't Enough

Nov 17, 2011

Many businesses are turning to mobile device management (MDM) solutions to better secure, manage, and support the variety of mobile devices their employees use. In many instances, MDM alone is not enough to protect against data loss and leakage. This paper introduces Good for Enterprise—and its unique approach to managing security on mobiles, including data loss prevention features.


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Iron Bow Technologies Integrates VTC into its Daily Operations

Nov 17, 2011

Iron Bow Technologies is a recognized leader in developing Video Teleconferencing (VTC) solutions for the Federal Government. See how they employ VTC within their own company and why Cisco sums up their relationship with Iron Bow with one word -- “Trust.”


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WAN Optimization: Transformation Through Technology

Nov 16, 2011

As organization have consolidated their data, storage and servers, WAN optimization has become a critical enabling technology to speed response times and reduce bandwidth for central file access which allows for centralized storage architectures and applications. Learn more about the evolution of WAN optimization in this report.


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A Best Practice Guide to Securing Data

Nov 10, 2011

Archiving is a vital tool as part of a data center cost savings exercise - The data center needs to reduce its total cost of ownership (TCO) for its data retention infrastructure. It must contain costs, manage data growth, improve the data retention process, and make it more efficient. Unstructured data is often the core data asset in an organization’s work flow and is inherent in revenue generating operations.


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Making the Case for All-in-One Digital Forensics

Nov 09, 2011

Tracking a serial killer can be one of the most difficult things an investigator can do. Cunning and smart, serial killers are careful to leave only the very basic calling cards — just enough to confound police, but usually not enough to get caught.


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Gartner Magic Quadrant for PC Configuration Life Cycle

Oct 24, 2011

This current Magic Quadrant document offers a third party perspective of IBM's leadership and visionary position in the PCCLM space while providing an in-depth comparison against our perceived competition. Read the report to see where IBM/BigFix is positioned.


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Is Your Network a Battlefield: How to Proactively Combat Cybersecurity Threats

Oct 24, 2011

Federal agencies must take a proactive approach to information and network security due to increasing cybersecurity threats. IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager, built on BigFix technology, is the leading enterprise cybersecurity solution to help combat cyber threats and eliminate vulnerabilities.


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Rewriting the Rules of Patch Management

Oct 24, 2011

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.


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The Smarter Supply Chain of the Future - Chief Supply Chain Officer Study

Oct 19, 2011

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.


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Optimizing the Data Center for Today’s Federal Government

Oct 06, 2011

This whitepaper provides an overview of key drivers for data center optimization in the federal government.


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The STAND: C4ISR

Sep 29, 2011

Military effectiveness on the battlefield increasingly depends on C4ISR technologies to deliver accurate and real time information to warfighters, even while those technologies must operate in an ever-more complex environment. An industry veteran of this space explains what the challenges are and what’s needed to meet current and future needs.


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Storage Efficiency for Dummies – eBook Guide

Sep 29, 2011

Budget issues are not the only struggle agencies encounter. Efficiently managing data - and for the least cost - can also be a challenge.


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Planning and Design for Smarter Cities

Sep 23, 2011

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.


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Delivering Stakeholder-Centric Services: From Strategy To Execution

Sep 23, 2011

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.


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IBM Rational Solutions for Smarter Government Services

Sep 23, 2011

IBM Rational solutions help governments and social service agencies transform their business models, technology and workforce to adapt to how people interact with government, provide information and leverage technology to deliver services.


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AMD Creates a Private Cloud to Increase its Own Productivity, Lower Costs and Maintain its Position as Industry Innovator

Sep 22, 2011

AMD creates a private cloud to increase its own productivity, improve accessibility, lower costs and maintain its position as industry innovator.


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Creating Value in the Public Sector: Intelligent Project Selection in the US Federal Government

Sep 08, 2011

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.


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Building a Private Cloud Network for the Government Data Center

Aug 01, 2011

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.


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Three Demographic Mega-Trends to Transform the Aerospace and Defense Workforce

Jul 13, 2011

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.


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Supply Chain Analysis

Jul 11, 2011

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.


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Why Smart, Innovative Businesses are Turning to Cloud Computing

Jul 01, 2011

This whitepaper explores the new trends and best practices why innovative businesses are turning to cloud computing.