Karen D. Schwartz

No area of the federal government conducts more daily business outside of the confines of an office building than the defense and intelligence communities. Whether in planes, jeeps, portable shelters or on the […]

Agencies know the importance of quickly identifying and mitigating threats, but existing infrastructure and escalating trends have made it more difficult than ever to keep up.

Limitations of existing tools: As […]

Government agencies are under a lot of pressure, both internally and from the constituents they serve. Constituents and government users are no longer willing to tolerate poorly performing, unintuitive legacy […]

Data collection and organization are important steps in becoming more data-centric. And for data to truly be useful, it should be accessible to everyone who needs it.

Without access to the right data, agency […]

Agencies wanting to become more data-centric might look to the Defense Department (DoD) for ideas.

While the federal government has its own initiative in the Federal Data Strategy and many states also have […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]