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Karen D. Schwartz

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  • Tips For Moving Your Windows Workloads
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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, Tips For Moving Your Windows Workloads, on the site GovLoop 1 week, 6 days ago

    Agencies who choose to keep their Windows workloads on-premises are also forfeiting the opportunity to take advantage of the efficiency and elasticity of a cloud platform, which can lead to better license […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, Tracking COVID Test Events to Flatten the Curve, on the site GovLoop 2 weeks, 4 days ago

    When officials at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) began realizing that a new, potentially deadly virus was growing rapidly, they knew they had to get ahead of it as much as possible. Because the agency had […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, Ensure Remote Workers Have the Access They Need to Be Productive, on the site GovLoop 2 months, 2 weeks ago

    During the early days of COVID-19, as agency after agency began requiring employees to work from home, the challenges of the new reality became crystal clear.

    Employees were having problems accessing the […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, Secure Remote Access for the Long Term, on the site GovLoop 2 months, 4 weeks ago

    Remote employees need the same secure access to applications and data as office-bound workers. Typically, agencies have been able to provide access to internal network resources and the internet for remote users […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, What Is the Impact of Slow FedRAMP Approval?, on the site GovLoop 3 months, 1 week ago

    Federal agencies are under increasing pressure to modernize IT infrastructure and improve efficiencies across the board. To do that, they need to replace legacy infrastructure and applications with modern, secure […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, How to Strengthen Cybersecurity Without Buying New Tools, on the site GovLoop 4 months ago

    If your agency hasn’t experienced some troubling cybersecurity incidents in the past year, you’re one of the few. In 2019 alone, federal agencies reported nearly 29,000 cybersecurity incidents. An increasing nu […]

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      Rajiv Das replied 4 months ago

      Karen – Great article and insight! I remember during my CISO tenure, one of the key objective was to future proof our security operations by simplifying the technology landscape. Thanks for publishing.

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      Andrew Blake replied 3 months, 4 weeks ago

      This is so relevant and important right now. Thanks for posting!

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, Get the Most Value From All Data All the Time, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 1 week ago

    Imagine that you have four scientists trying to crack a problem. Each scientist is focused on a different aspect of the problem, working in their own lab and analyzing their own data. Individually, each scientist […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, How to Get the Most Value From Linux, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 1 week ago

    Over the past decade, the Department of Defense (DoD) has widely adopted the Linux open source operating system. Linux offers stability, reliability, reduced risks, and support for a wide variety of processor […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, Survey: Gov Employees Share Data Strategies and Top Challenges, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    In the past decade, government agencies have experienced a massive influx of data, much of it unstructured. Understanding where all of that data resides, managing it and protecting it are gargantuan tasks, but if […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, Improving Agility Through Serverless Computing, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    Cloud Smart, digital modernization and a push toward digital services, in general, have prompted most agencies to adopt some form of Agile software development.

    Often, it is microservices-based, which breaks […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, How to Overcome the Complexities of Microservices, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    Microservices are individual services that together, make up an application. It’s not unusual for one application to consist of hundreds of microservices, all of which must be continually discovered and tracked, a […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, Taking DevOps to a New Level With Modern Developer Workspaces, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    Transitioning from traditional application development to more modern, cloud-focused approaches like DevOps requires different processes for almost everything. Because DevOps focuses on releasing code quickly, […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, A Holistic Approach to Data Management Is Your Only Real Option, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 3 weeks ago

    Let’s say you’re getting ready to retire from government. During your lifelong career, likely many government agencies managed your data — everything from your basic name, social security number, job title, pay a […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, How to Build a Foundation for the TIC 3.0 Era, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 3 weeks ago

    Most agencies today use multiple clouds in addition to on-premises environments to house data and services. That makes it difficult to ensure security, especially when each environment has its own set of services […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, What Agencies Want in a Next-Generation Network, on the site GovLoop 6 months ago

    Agencies across the board want to be able to take advantage of next-generation technologies and capabilities to improve the responsiveness, efficiency and effectiveness of government. They want to be able to use […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, How to Make Your Data Backups Better, on the site GovLoop 8 months ago

    Backing up your cloud environment is an important first step to making sure that your data and infrastructure is always available, but it doesn’t solve everything. Because agencies tend to deploy workloads a […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, How to Protect Critical Assets, on the site GovLoop 8 months ago

    Although hackers are typically interested in infiltrating all types of organizations, government agencies are particularly attractive targets. Not only does the sheer amount of information make protection […]

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    Karen D. Schwartz wrote a new post, Manage Data Chaos With Holistic Data Management, on the site GovLoop 8 months, 3 weeks ago

    With pockets of data in multiple, unconnected repositories and formats, it has become much more difficult to understand where data is and how it is being used. This is a particularly thorny issue for government […]

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