Navigating the Future of Government IT
With more than 20 billion devices predicted to be connected by the year 2020, managing a seamless and secure IT enterprise will be no small feat in the federal government’s increasingly complex environment.
Posts Tagged: government IT
What Technology Should Exist in Your Office?
What do you see in your office every day that makes you want to hit your head against the wall? What technology should exist in your office?
5 Additions to Hillary’s Initiative on Technology & Innovation
Five items for the next administration to consider in modernizing government technology.
The Cybersecurity Act of 2015: 3 Questions to Ask Before Sharing Information
Three questions to help you decide if the benefits of information sharing outweigh the costs for your business.
Government Prepares for the New IP: Insights from the Federal Forum 2015
Last month at the Federal Forum in Washington, D.C., I joined Brocade’s industry partners and the government’s leading IT decision makers to discuss how new, exciting technologies are changing the way our government serves the American citizenry, enables warfighters and meets the demands of a growing list of stakeholders. We heard from an impressive groupRead… Read more »
Planning the Data Center of the Future Requires More than Technology Alone
Agencies today are being asked to do a lot with their data. With information generated by new sources – from social media outlets to mobile devices – agencies must store, monitor, organize, access, and, most importantly, make sense of data in a way that allows them to best serve the American citizenry. The data centerRead… Read more »
10 Ways FITARA Guidance Empowers CIOs — Equally
Nowadays, everyone has an opinion about federal information technology — how projects should be managed and whether chief information officers have adequate authority to do their jobs. The truth is that all CIOs are not empowered equally. Many argue the culprit is not the nearly 20-year-old law that created the position but rather inconsistent implementationRead… Read more »
Follow the New IP Part V: The Network Hardware of the Future
Every year, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) reveals the latest cutting-edge devices and gadgets poised to disrupt the consumer tech space. In 2015, it was evident that this would be the year of Bluetooth-enabled everything — wearables, smart watches, necklaces and toothbrushes – all becoming network endpoints, gathering and transmitting large volumes of data. ThisRead… Read more »
Follow the New IP Part IV: Putting Control in the Hands of Government
What is the New IP? If you’ve been following my series on Federal Insights, you may know that the New IP is an emerging networking foundation for innovation based on open standards, and a software-defined, highly dynamic and user-centric infrastructure. As we enter a cloud and mobile driven era, IT infrastructure must be modernized toRead… Read more »
Agencies Use Contests to Encourage Mobile Innovations
The Department of Health and Human Services is the latest federal agency to tap the creativity of the marketplace by running a contest to find the best products for their emergency preparedness apps. HHS used a tool that is increasingly being relied upon by agencies to find the best mobile solutions, get the work doneRead… Read more »