IBM is hoping to change the game with their latest IPS product On Tuesday, IBM unveiled their latest intrusion-protection system, that offers resilience to network-based but also application controls and URL filtering. This combined capability offers cost savings and enhanced capabilities. Via Network World, more here. SSL is no longer the catch all, it needsRead… Read more »
The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is launching the e-government academy which is an on-line certification program for government professionals. It consists for four 5-week courses and is targeted for working professionals looking to enhance their e-government and IT skills. To view a webinar discussing the new on-line e-Government Academy program please click on:Read… Read more »
Atlanta recently thumbs downed a proposal to increase taxes to fund much needed transportation improvements. Although the tax hike would have been 1% and would have in theory created an economic boom in the area, the residents responded resoundingly that they don’t trust their government and wont give the government any more money. So areRead… Read more »
We’re down to the last few agencies making the move from our Federal Telecommunications Service 2001 (FTS 2001) contract to the Networx contracts and I am proud of the work we’ve done with our agency partners and OMB to make Networx a success. As many of you know, the Networx transition has not been easy.Read… Read more »
As of August 1, four cities — Chicago, Seattle, New York and San Francisco — became the first local governments to host their public data sets on the federal domain under the name cities.data.gov. Municipal Information Officers cite their decision to host the data on the federal portal as part of an overall message thatRead… Read more »
As the end of the conference drew near, I was feeling a little nervous about holding myself accountable for changing my lessons learned into actions. You know that self-doubt that creeps in and makes you think “I can’t change the way this huge government works.” Well, thankfully I got a boost of morale from allRead… Read more »
Note: This is the first of a 3-part series on how Federal organizations can best exploit the potential of cloud computing in the Federal IT enterprise. The cloud is rapidly becoming the way to conduct the business of IT across the industry. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings are maturing – both internally and acrossRead… Read more »
Originally published on Tri Tuns blog Insights. As ‘user adoption’ is becoming a better-known aspect of IT implementations one thought leader in particular stands out. And one of the things we at Tri Tuns love about Michael Sampsonis his distinct ability to distill the complexities of user adoption into an easily understood and digested reasonedRead… Read more »
If you’re based in WA, or in Perth on 5th September this year, consider attending the Western Australia Institute of Public Administration’s fourth annual RightClick conference, focusing on “Technology but not for its own sake”. I’ll be providing a keynote on ‘shiny new things’ and why people are attracted to them and there’s a greatRead… Read more »
Not everyone is or is willing to be computer literate to take care of basic business. We all have different ways to train. Some would say some of us remain in the dark ages, but you also might argue that not all that’s old-fashioned is bad. We often buy things because they are antique orRead… Read more »