Here’s your chance to hear the contract facts from someone in your own agency! Shantelle Coleman Branch Manager, DHS – Office of the CIO, will be discussing how you can quickly plan, procure, and deploy your agency’s virtualization and cloud solutions through the recently established DHS | VMware BPA (contract # HSHQDC-11-A-00041). Join us as we reveal how DHS’ Strategic Sourcing’s Enterprise Software Solutions ca...

Whether your organization is moving towards data consolidation or maintaining all data in a federated environment, a data management framework must be put in place to enable information sharing and collaboration. Please join us to learn more about the Boeing Twister Data Framework, a leading data integration platform for rapid ETL processing and multi domain, federated queries on almost any type of data.Customer uses for Twister Data Framework...

Benefits 'In the space of two days I had evolved two plans, wholly distinct, both of which were equally feasible. The point I am trying to bring out is that one does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit those plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances.' - General George S. Patton, Jr., War as I Knew It, page 116 (1947) Those localities that have not planned for the current environment are experiencing a worse impact than t...

Pre-Bidders' Webinar for SHRP 2 Capacity Pilot Project RFPs C33 and C39 On March 20, 2012, the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) will be releasing two requests for proposals (RFPs). These RFPs will fund pilot tests of the two largest SHRP 2 Capacity products led by state departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, and regional planning organizations. The two products are of Transportation for Communitie...

In every organization there exists a somewhat buried but very dangerous loophole: the presence of local administrator accounts. Local administrator accounts are often times created directly by users and are hidden from the IT manager’s standard tracked list of administrative accounts managed by Active Directory. These accounts can be used by malware to install malicious software on local computers through the administrator account. Furth...

Crunch Time for Records Management Reform:What You Need To Know Before Next Week's Presidential Memo Reporting Deadline Thursday, March 22nd: 2pm ET|11am PT A Brand New Webinar in the Feith Records Management Reform Series As you know, by the end of this month, every Agency across the Federal Government will be required to submit their report to NARA outlining individual plans for reforming Records Management programs. Are you prepared for the...

With the increase in data growth and the trend of virtualization, it is important to ensure your environment has the "best in backup." Symantec has answered the call and modernized backup recovery with NetBackup 7.5. This solution simplifies virtual recovery and increases storage efficiency while you virtualize mission critical applications. Join Symantec and Carahsoft to learn about the Top Ten Reasons to choose Symantec Backup for your VMwar...

Maricopa County (AZ) was struggling in managing numerous assessment appeals. The Assessor’s Office was literally moving thousands of pieces of paper from department to department, through several staff including the in-taking clerical staff to appraisal hands, to other clerical hands for entries and back full-circle to the in-taking staff that was to finish the process by mailing out the appeal decisions. Documents were placed in wrong f...

New technologies are giving the federal workforce tools to be more mobile, efficient, and collaborative. But managing in this new environment isn’t as easy as downloading an app. Federal managers need to understand how to leverage cloud-based systems to maintain communication channels, measure progress, and assign projects to an increasing number of employees who aren’t working in a traditional manner. Join Government Executive...

Join us to learn how Conservation International uses SharePoint for Internet Sites to manage their online presence. Get a first-hand account of how SharePoint can deliver a rich user interface as well as easy-to-use content management functionality. Alex Dinnouti, Director of Web Applications for Conservation International, will be sharing best practices and tips and will be responding live to audience questions. Attendees will learn: ·...