GSA’s IT Schedule 70 has been the major go-to vehicle for federal agencies to buy IT products and, more recently, services. At close to $16 billion in annual sales, it takes up a large chunk of the government’s overall yearly IT budget. But it’s facing uncertain times as the overall fiscal climate squeezes the resources GSA can devote to it, and competing vehicles such as agency GWACs loom in its mirror. Changes are coming to the venerable IT contract, and both users and vendors need to prepare. Download the contract guide now.
Sponsored By PCMG
Government agencies are getting serious about online collaboration tools because they see the opportunity to improve enterprise-wide information sharing, support real-time communications during a crisis, and to reduce the money they spend on large in-person meetings or conferences. A recent survey conducted by the 1105 Government Information Group shows that these and other potential benefits are leading many agencies to deepen their investment in collaboration tools and to make collaboration part of their organizational culture. Download this exclusive research report for more on collaboration trends in government.
Sponsored By Adobe
As attacks on agency networks and assets become ever more divergent and sophisticated, continuous monitoring will be a critical element in an organization’s cybersecurity strategy. But it’s not an easy thing to implement. Download this Q&A report for industry perspectives on the various elements of effective continuous monitoring, and why it’s not just one more technology program.
Sponsored By Knowledge Consulting Group, Tripwire, SolarWinds
This white paper introduces government by design and describes how it can address the growing challenges and pains felt at all levels of government.
Sponsored By IBM
When it comes to data storage management, the challenge is to do more with less. Government entities are being asked to store and protect more data that is mandated by more regulations, involves more
advanced technologies—such as cloud—and is generated by more digital devices from more vendors. Read this whitepaper to learn how IBM can help government organizations assess their existing storage
environments and uncover potential savings across hardware, media, software
and administration.
Sponsored By IBM
Most organizations possess considerable intellectual property. Unfortunately, that information is useless unless employees know how to find it. Archiving tools with powerful index and
search capabilities can help maximize the value of intellectual property.
Sponsored By Rand Worldwide Inc
Transitioning application workloads from physical to virtual machines with server consolidation can not only dramatically increase the utilization and agility of your data center but also significantly reduce on-going operational costs.
Sponsored By Red Hat
Evolve or die. That’s the imperative guiding the development of cybersecurity technologies and strategies across government and industry. The ongoing evolution of the federal IT enterprise, extended in all directions by advances in networking and mobile technology, must be matched to similar advances in information and network security. But above all, the nature of the current cybersecurity threats requires a new way of thinking. The old approach to cybersecurity, which was based on defending the perimeter, cannot hold up against the wide array of cyber threats that agencies now face.
Download this special report for in-depth articles on infrastructure security.
Sponsored By CDW-G, Symantec
Big data is a top priority for CIOs, but few know exactly what it is – and what it can help their organizations achieve. As the creation of data has multiplied recently, IT organizations are left wondering how to manage those data stores while at the same time being asked to help the business side of the house innovate, cut costs and improve end-user satisfaction. Download this special report for in-depth articles on meeting the challenges you face as you take on "big data."
Sponsored By CDW-G, EMC
With budgets and staffs stretched thin, public sector organizations are searching for ways to cut costs and
help employees work more productively. IT leaders recognize that collaborative voice, video, and mobile
technologies could enable their organizations to achieve these goals, but they expect to implement these
technologies when investment dollars are more plentiful.
Download this whitepaper for an in-depth look at how collaboration technologies are helping IT managers “invest to save” by delivering significant long-term savings while improving the effectiveness of their organizations.
Sponsored By Cisco
Are you wrestling with the options of building dedicated, private networks or continuing to buy managed network services? This paper describes the advantages of a building a private optical network and the technologies to consider.
Sponsored By Ciena
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 paper will explore the vital role that wireless solutions play for government agencies
Sponsored By BridgeWave Communications
There is a definite need for better data protection solutions in today’s data centers. Learn the trends that have made modernizing backup and recovery an urgent priority, the key requirements for solution offerings, and how Symantec NetBackupTM appliances deliver a simple, complete, and cost-effective solution.
Sponsored By Symantec
Although cloud capabilities offer numerous opportunities to drive business innovation, its potential beyond technological capabilities remains virtually untapped. Read the white paper to learn more about the benefits of cloud-enabled business models in promoting sustainable competitive advantage.
Sponsored By IBM
Like many organizations, federal agencies can drive progress through social collaboration. Read the solution brief to see how secure, scalable, cloud-based solutions can help your agency collaborate socially without any extra cost, complexity or compliance concerns. See how these tools can also help enable better decisions to be made faster.
Sponsored By IBM
Most organizations have invested in security tools and techniques. But layered defenses are not the same as building security intelligence into your environment.
Read this whitepaper and learn how to provide value beyond risk control alone—with accountability and transparency for user entitlements throughout the user lifecycle.
Sponsored By IBM
The rugged IT market is about to get a wake-up call. For a long time, both buyers and sellers alike accepted the notion that buying rugged IT means giving up a lot of features that come with standard products. But as the general IT market continues to emphasize mobility and smaller device form factors, those lower expectations are bound to be revisited.
Sponsored By Panasonic
If the unthinkable were to occur and your agency had to continue providing essential services and performing essential activities, would you know what to do and where to go?
In most cases, the answer is yes. Today, thanks to lessons learned from past disasters and government requirements, most government agencies and departments have some type of business continuity plan that allows them to maintain critical functions.
Sponsored By Level 3 Communications
The old notion of a data cennter--a building full of servers that can be expanded at will as the demand to host applications increased--is gone for good. The new environment, de fined by perpetual budget constraints but still increasing user needs, requires data centers that deliver more computing power but also cost less to run and take up less space.
Sponsored By CDW-G, HP
ACG Research models a private cloud implementation of cloud infrastructure compared with individual virtualized data centers as a baseline. The model includes expected benefits from taking advantage of the end-to-end infrastructure and by optimizing services across public and private clouds.
Sponsored By Cisco
Cloud computing represents a revolutionary technological paradigm
shift that can dramatically improve the quality of education for all
students in a given state, from K-12 to higher education. Through the
Internet, it can deliver the most advanced software and educational
materials, hardware resources and services to students and educators in
even the most impoverished or remote school districts in the state,
without the need for advanced IT expertise at those locations.
Sponsored By IBM
In this whitepaper, you'll learn why it's a mistake to choose middleware solely on the basis of functionality without figuring in total cost of ownership (TCO) and ease of future changes. Proprietary solutions may meet an immediate requirement, but they lock your organization into a single vendor, which can result in expensive licenses and create hurdles to future software upgrades.
Sponsored By Red Hat
Learn how your city can improve the efficiency of everything from daily operations to recovery responses in emergency situations, without increasing costs. Streamlining these functions are critical to providing enhanced services to your citizens.
Sponsored By IBM
Is your company struggling to keep up with unprecedented data growth? If so, you're not alone. CIOs now rank data growth as their top concern, and making sense of all that data is their top priority. Download this complimentary whitepaper to learn how your agency can handle massive volumes of structured and unstructured data.
Sponsored By Red Hat
Now more than ever, for many organizations the initial appeal of uni fed communications is simple: big savings. Without a doubt, they quickly discover the other bene fits of integrating voice, video and data networks, not the least of which is the ability to provide seamless communications and collaboration across the enterprise.
Sponsored By CDW-G, Cisco Systems
Rising costs and revenue shortfalls are affecting the ability of governments to meet the level of services citizens expect. The path to a smarter government begins with the budget and finance process. The evershifting landscape means that governments today need to rely on technology to help navigate its complexities. Download now to read learn how!
Sponsored By IBM
Many public safety agencies need to do more with less and link spending to outcomes. The global trends highlighted in this report show the increasing challenges and issues confronting public safety agencies. This white paper describes how developing competencies in five key area can help public safety agencies more effectively do their jobs in the face of extremely important and difficult sets of issues.
Sponsored By IBM
Cybersecurity has emerged as a top priority for both government and industry. Three cyber experts share their views on the current issues, how threats have changed, and how budget-constrained agencies can defend against Advanced Persistent Threats.
Sponsored By Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Vormetric
Agencies have to invest in order to achieve the kinds of efficiencies in their operations that both administration and congressional authorities are constantly demanding from them. Virtualization, with its inherent promise of being able to do more with the technology that’s available, is an option whose attraction is increasingly obvious.
Although virtualization has been around as a concept for a long time, it’s only begun to proliferate in government as a result of mandates such as the Office of Management and Budget’s Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), launched early in the Obama administration’s first term. Budget pressures and other requirements, such as the need for agencies to boost teleworking, are now putting a focus on other technologies such as desktop and application virtualization.
Download this in depth special report for more insight into Virtual Infrastructure.
Sponsored By Iron Bow Technologies, NetApp
When it comes to the network, government agencies cannot afford to pinch pennies. That’s because many emerging technologies that promise to increase the cost-effectiveness of agency operations first require a robust and agile network infrastructure. No investment, no savings. The good news is that government officials understand this. According to a new survey conducted by the 1105 Government Information Group, one third of government agencies intend to allocate more of their IT budget to network operations. The key? Implementing a strategy that improves the quality and responsiveness of network services while also reducing the cost of network management.
Download this exclusive research report for more on the state of Network Transformation and Modernization in government.
Sponsored By CDW-G
As enterprise IT groups continue to embrace virtualization, the question becomes, “How are virtual networks, servers, storage arrays, and workstations managed at the physical layer?” Or, as a CIO would ask of his IT organization, “How do you know what type of services are running on this port and what is the value of each to the organization?”
Sponsored By CommScope Enterprise
By popular demand! The second 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 3,000 entries!
Sponsored By Ciena
Although data security has long been an important issue in government, it has taken on much greater importance in recent years. The sense of urgency has been heightened by several high profile data breaches resulting in the exposure of personal information of tens of millions of military personnel, veterans and private citizens. Download now to lead more.
Sponsored By CDW-G, Symantec
This white paper discusses a revolutionary approach to identity and access management, available through Quest One Identity Solutions, that actually reduces complexity, accelerates time-to-value, and enables the business to drive IAM.
Sponsored By Dell
Communications are rapidly going mobile and away from the fixed desktop, and government is heading the same way. One of the most heated debates currently is over bring your own device (BYOD), which promises a dramatic reduction in the costs agencies face to provide the equipment and infrastructure needed to enable their workforces to take advantage of the mobile communications boom.
Download this Special Report for an in depth look at the advantages and challenges BYOD brings to government agencies.
Sponsored By CDW-G, EMC
By the end of 2012, the number of mobile devices will exceed the number of people on the planet. And in increasing numbers, government employees are using their tablets and smartphones for work—whether or not their employer has a formal bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy. Is BYOD a bane or boon for government? Find out in the complimentary whitepaper.
Sponsored By Cisco Systems
This white paper will outline the main challenges facing government organizations trying to modernize their IT infrastructures to support improved service to citizens and higher productivity for their employees through mobile solutions.
Sponsored By Cisco
Read this technical brief to see how Quest SharePlex(r) for Oracle can help organizations ensure high availability of their Oracle databases to improve overall system availability. Topics include offloading reporting, hardware and software changes, and Oracle platform migrations as well as disaster recovery strategies.
Sponsored By Quest Software
Users in the DoD, the aerospace and defense industries have created and reused model assets over an extended period of time for various projects. The DoD has issued a directive calling for the use of DoDAF version 2.0, making migration or rebuilding of these existing assets necessary.
Sponsored By IBM
Increasingly, agencies are challenged with information requests due to things like on-going legal investigations. Agencies are required to produce electronically stored information (EIS) in response to these requests but, for many, this process (eDiscovery) can be time consuming and costly. This report reviews predictive coding technology as a new approach to document review.
Sponsored By Symantec
IT managers must choose between spending to maintain existing systems and engaging in new developments. Analytics services can help provide insights into your data center to balance these demands and unlock greater
Sponsored By IBM
This white paper will review the benefits of a forward-looking mobile strategy, the challenges and opportunities of emerging bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategies, mobile security, device and wireless provider selection, and how to ensure that a wireless network infrastructure supports mobile activities.
Sponsored By CDW-G
A well designed, innovative asset management system can accurately track and account for organizational assets, while providing affordability upfront, and minimizing recurring costs. Review this complimentary whitepaper to learn how your organization can find the best asset management solution.
Sponsored By Northrop Grumman
This complimentary white paper highlights the value of having a framework of organization-wide fraud detection and prevention to help discover and combat fraud before it occurs. Learn how a consistent view of activity in real time makes it easy to flag suspicious transactions identify existing or potential perpetrators, uncover schemes in progress, and document instances of FWA.
Sponsored By Information Builders
Recent advances in cloud computing, mobility, networking and related technologies have helped government officials approach information sharing in new ways. Download this complimentary whitepaper to learn about the Digital Government Strategy and how it can energize information-sharing initiatives among federal agencies.
Sponsored By Verizon Wireless
Fraud is big business. The range of fraud and the resourcefulness of fraudsters pose a daunting
problem for those charged with its detection and prevention. Yet each of these criminal activities leaves a trail of behavioural and transactional data that can be detected to prevent future transactions.
Sponsored By IBM
Business Process Management (BPM) initiatives are growing in popularity. With a relatively low investment in technology and resources, you can achieve huge gains in process efficiency, productivity, control, and business agility. Download this whitepaper to learn about a repeatable framework for developing a business case for new or continued justification of BPM projects – with the objective being to help accelerate the startup time and enable more organizations to realize success from BPM.
Sponsored By OpenText
This whitepaper explores the effects of cloud computing on enterprise security and the associated opportunities and challenges. We will take a comprehensive look at the importance of security in cloud and discuss how you can use the technology you already have — such as SELinux and sVirt — to improve your security in the cloud.
Sponsored By Red Hat
Without a unified work environment, government agencies can’t efficiently derive value from the growing volume of information available. Read this to see how integrated intelligence platform (IIP) for government integrates all the applications you need to turn data into insights. So you can focus on the work, not the tools.
Sponsored By IBM
Government agencies are finding new approaches to effectively deliver services to constituents – and manage budgets. Read this white paper to learn more about cloud solutions that can help these agencies take advantage of economies of scale and optimize workloads.
Sponsored By IBM