6 Mistakes You're Making By Using "Public Cloud"-Based File Sync & Share for Government Business 1. Trusting The Public Cloud. You or others in your agency are already using applications like Google Drive and Dropbox to share business documents because those services are easy to use. But your colleagues may be jeopardizing security, especially from within government offices. You should limit users from taking files of any classification to...

As Cloud Computing approaches maturity it is transforming the face of enterprise IT. In the public sector, government organizations are aggressively moving to capitalize on the cloud’s myriad benefits to increase operational efficiency and reduce cost of ownership. These benefits apply to crucial areas such as IT consolidation, shared services and public-facing citizen services.Even though cloud solutions are becoming commonplace, there...

Government Cloud Brokerage: Who, What, When, Where, Why? Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore the Administration’s establishment of the Cloud First policy and how agencies are taking full advantage of cloud computing in order to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. As agencies seek to combine d...

Eliminating the Pitfalls: Steps to Virtualization in Government Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore how agencies are tackling the pitfalls inherent in virtualization to fulfill Administration initiatives like cloud adoption, data center consolidation, .greening of I.T., and telework. Virtualization is at the heart of these programs, and government...

Government Cloud Brokerage: Who, What, Where, When, Why? The Administration’s establishment of the Cloud First policy opens the door for agencies to take full advantage of cloud computing in order to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. As agencies seek to combine different cloud services or legacy systems, they need a seamless form of integration. The result is the exploration of C...

For government agencies, there is a constant and growing tension between the need to share data and the need to protect it. On one hand, not sharing data is generally not an option: Agencies need to have the ability to put information into the hands of those who need it. On the other hand, they need to ensure that data is accessible only by authorized individuals. Often, agencies have worked around this problem by outfitting employees with mul...

Beyond Data Center Consolidation: An Enterprise Roadmap to Strategic IT OMB mandates require agencies to empower CIOs to leverage agency-wide needs to reduce inefficiencies and streamline information technology investments. Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore how agencies are using IT to deliver better government services, more efficiently and securely, and rein...

The shift to cloud computing involves a lot more than just adopting new technology. It's a total business transformation. As an IT professional, are you prepared for the changing roles in the cloud? If you answered no, you need to arm yourself with information about how IT jobs are evolving and which new skills are needed in the new cloud-focused landscape. Join us for this free, one-hour webinar that will uncover: Why and how cloud computing...

This free webinar for Federal Government users of SolarWinds software will showcase the latest features of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMan) including new features that will be released in VMan 6.0 this quarter. This release brings integration between VMan and the popular SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and Orion Server & Application Monitor (SAM) products to a new level. The integration gives NPM and SAM users im...

The Federal IT Shared Services Strategy was released last year which details the steps agencies must take to begin chipping away at more than $46 billion in duplicate IT investments. The government has rolled out 7 shared services initiatives in the past 4 years, along with sequestration and budget cuts, shared services is now a strategy organizations must execute. It is no secret the government has trouble with efficiency, as we operate in si...