Federal agencies are under pressure to optimize data center efficiency and effectiveness. As agencies serve mobile users, manage expanding flows of data, and employ platforms, services and infrastructures as a service, these data centers must be dynamic, elastic and reliable. These imperatives are sparking fresh thinking about how federal agencies should approach network management. A key challenge is that hardware-centric networks cannot supp...

The ATARC Federal Mobile Computing Summit will be held on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center in Washington, D.C. This educational one-day symposium will feature subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating discussing the latest tools and trends in mobility. (Mobile Summit Agenda) The MITRE-ATARC Mobile Collaboration Symposium will discuss and white-board various mobile "challenge...

Federal networks are straining under demands posed by increased use of mobile devices, teleworking and alternative schedules, bandwidth-hungry applications, video traffic, cyber risks, and exploding data volumes. Many agencies have invested in modernizing the desktop, compute and storage domains of their IT infrastructures. But they nevertheless find themselves saddled with outdated legacy networking environments comprised of single-function a...

This educational one-day symposium will feature cloud & data center subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating on panels. (Cloud & Data Center Summit Agenda)The MITRE-ATARC Cloud & Data Center Symposium will discuss and white-board various cloud "challenge areas” and produce a White Paper with recommendations for the Federal government. The following challenge areas will be discussed: 1. Wor...

This educational one-day symposium will feature subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating in panels discussing hot-button topics in the area of big data and analytics.Also included is the MITRE-ATARC Big Data Collaboration Symposium features discussion and white-boarding between government and industry subject matter experts in a small-group setting. The outcomes of these sessions will be compiled in a White...

In today’s ever-changing Federal environment, agencies are becoming increasingly reliant on the use of software applications in mission-critical projects. As IT environments become more complex with the advent of cloud services, virtualization and mobile devices, the challenge of managing and optimizing application performance is also becoming more complex. How can agencies overcome these software application challenges? The use of Appli...

The ATARC Federal Mobile Computing Summit will be held on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. This educational one-day symposium will feature subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating discussing the latest tools and trends in mobility. (Mobile Summit Agenda) The MITRE-ATARC Mobile Symposium will discuss and white-board various mobile "challenge areas” and produce a White Pap...

The ATARC Federal DevOps Summit will be held on Thursday, August 18, 2016 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. Mark Schwartz, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will serve as the Government Chair of this educational, one-day symposium featuring government speakers and panels examining the practice of DevOps - and the complementa...

This educational one-day symposium will feature cloud computing subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating on panels. (Cloud Summit Agenda)The MITRE-ATARC Cloud Symposium will discuss and white-board various cloud "challenge areas” and produce a White Paper with recommendations for the Federal government. The following challenge areas will be discussed: 1. DevOps vs NoOps: Managing Public Clouds2. Secur...

This educational one-day symposium will feature subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating in panels discussing hot-button topics in the area of big data and analytics. (Big Data Summit Agenda)The MITRE-ATARC Big Data Collaboration Symposium features discussion and white-boarding between government and industry subject matter experts in a small-group setting. The outcomes of these sessions will be compiled in...