Forget Everything You’ve Read about Application Monitoring
If you’re like many federal IT professionals, your understanding of application performance management (APM) has probably been rigidly shaped by the limited definitions put forth by analysts and other...
View Article8 Tips for Making Smart IT Buying Decisions this Federal Year-End
Federal fiscal year-end is the busiest season for government IT spending. With only a few weeks left to spend the $3.8 trillion apportioned in Uncle Sam’s 2016 budget, the pressure is on to spend...
View ArticleThe new IT prototype
There is a dramatic shift underway in the federal technology landscape on a scale rarely seen more than once every decade or so. Computing environments are evolving from traditional on-premises-only to...
View Article3 Tactics Procurement Officers Can Use to Get Through the Craziness of...
With continued unpredictability about the annual federal appropriations process, the 2016 federal fiscal year-end busy season is likely to be as crazy as usual for federal procurement teams. According...
View ArticleHow Hyperconvergence Makes IT Easy and Affordable
When news broke last month that the Pentagon is still using 1970s-era floppy disks to run its nuclear program, most of us expressed incredulity. Unless you happen to work for the federal government...
View Article7 Best Practices for Government IT Service Continuity
Disasters such as weather, earthquakes, fire, cyber-attacks, terrorism and even human error, have all impacted government systems at one point or another and will continue to do so. Although the...
View ArticleThe Time Has Come for Packet Analysis
The Rolling Stones once wrote a song about how time waits for no one, but the inverse is also true today. These days, no one waits for time; certainly not government personnel who depend on speedy...
View Article5 Public Sector Agencies That Are Reaping the Benefits of Going Google
The City of Pittsburgh is saving 25% of its annual email costs since moving to Google Apps while the U.S. Naval Academy boasts that is it making better use of the tax payer’s dollars with Google. But...
View Article5 Times Technology Transformed Government (and Vice Versa)
If you were asked to name some of the biggest proponents and propagators of technology in the modern age, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or Elon Musk might spring to mind. But what about the U.S. government?...
View ArticleModern Software Development: A Continuous Journey, Not A Delivery Destination
My wife and I recently hiked the Stony Man Trail in the Shenandoah National Park. It was so much fun that we hiked it again a few weeks later with our college-aged kids and close friends. The four-mile...
View ArticleSDN is Coming: Is the DOD Ready?
Like it or not, Software Defined Networking (SDN) is coming and although implementations may offer many of the benefits hyped by vendors last year, there are also a few unforeseen security and...
View ArticleTop 10 Trends to Impact Enterprise IT in 2016
The Internet of Things will continue to balloon while we’ll all still struggle with extracting value from Big Data. Those are the headline predictions from DLT partner and IT asset management leader,...
View ArticleGetting to the Nitty Gritty of a Bandwidth Complaint
Bandwidth is one of those things we all take for granted, like electric power we don’t really pay attention to it until it’s gone. Then we get disgruntled. So when an application is running slowly or a...
View ArticleYour 2016 IT Training Calendar – Events to Look out For
A new year means a new calendar of government IT events and webinars! And there’s plenty to look forward to this year. From industry and association events to educational webinars, now’s the time to...
View ArticleWhat’s New in IT – Partner Product Round-up
In the ever changing technology landscape, IT companies are constantly perfecting their products to keep up. We’re proud to be a partner of key IT providers to the government who continue to be...
View ArticleIs Amazon In Your Stomach Lining?
Well, not exactly. Except for whatever delicious things you may have shopped for and purchased on Amazon, then no, Amazon is nowhere to be found in your body. However, some really interesting...
View ArticlePower to the People: How Federal IT Pros Can Benefit from Joining Online...
Whether seeking solutions to pressing problems, networking with like-minded professionals or researching products, professionals across nearly all industries benefit from participating in communities...
View ArticleFederal Agencies are Making Wasteful Year-End Buying Decisions
Are you concerned that your agency’s federal year-end spending spree can lead to the wrong buying decisions? Federal CIO, Tony Scott, is. “That’s just a really bad way to run IT,” said Scott at the...
View Article6 Tips that Can Help Government Buyers Survive Federal Fiscal Year-End
September is the heaviest buying season for federal agencies. This “use it or lose it” spending spree is decades old and a regular fixture on the calendars of procurement officials. Just to give you an...
View ArticleTop Tips for Choosing the Right IT Solution Provider this Federal Year-End
How to Make the Right IT Buying Decisions this Federal Year-End Federal fiscal year-end. Busy, busy, busy! Given the plethora of companies competing for their share of fiscal year-end dollars,...
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