The COVID pandemic spurred agencies to move their data and applications to the cloud quicker than many had planned to make it more accessible for a remote workforce and to protect it from intensifying cyberattacks. More than a year into the new normal world of remote work, agencies are evaluating the best ways to secure the hybrid and multi clouds and their data troves to make sure it can meet the increased challenges. In May 2020, the Biden A...

We’re bringing back our virtual roadshow, Qonnect, to share the latest news and updates from Qumulo. Federal and State and Local Government agencies are invited to attend! We’ll be bringing together Qumulo customers, and industry execs to discuss the radically simple way to manage unstructured data in any environment. We’ll cover: Who is Qumulo & Where Data Storage Trends are Heading Customer Success Story Product Demo Qu...

The Department of Defense's cloud strategy aims to transform virtually every aspect of the warfighting effort, and has resulted in a rapidly growing ecosystem of both general-purpose and fit-for-purpose clouds. Some of those efforts are unique to DOD, reflecting the scale, missions and austere operating environments of military operations, while others are readily transferrable to most any agency. All, however, hold valuable lessons for those...

Join us for a 4-part educational series on how event streaming enables legacy modernization and cost reduction. Our leading Apache Kafka experts will share how customers are improving customer experience and operational efficiency with a real-time data pipeline - eliminating the point-to-point connections and allowing your services to scale effectively and teams to work with one another. We will explore these topics and more: Rethink tradition...

It’s been a decade since "Cloud First" was put forth as a formal goal of government. In that time, agencies have moved from wary experimentation to straightforward "lift and shift" efforts to, increasingly, enterprise as-a-service solutions. The question is no longer whether to leverage cloud servicers, but how best to do so. Yet as the easier moves to the cloud have been made, the remaining systems and workloads require decidedly more c...

Join us for a 4-part educational series on how event streaming enables legacy modernization and cost reduction. Our leading Apache Kafka experts will share how customers are improving customer experience and operational efficiency with a real-time data pipeline - eliminating the point-to-point connections and allowing your services to scale effectively and teams to work with one another. We will explore these topics and more: Rethink tradition...

Deploying a new government service or application involves manual work such as procuring and preparing hardware, configuring operating environments, and enabling monitoring solutions. This manual work takes time, is error-prone, and can produce inconsistencies.Key DevOps practices such Infrastructure as Code (IaC), continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) and automated testing, allow you and your team to develop and release changes...

Most government agencies have made the journey to cloud since the Cloud First and Cloud Smart strategies came from OMB starting in 2010. Many organizations have more than one cloud. The challenge becomes blending the different types of cloud and service models to provide access to needed data, while at the same time protecting a much enlarged attack surface created by the large number of workers who are accessing the data remotely. If there is...

Technology Business Management (TBM) Conference 2020 (TBMC20) **TBM Conference named as a global top tech conference by CIO Dive (www.ciodive.com) Theme: Bringing Future Forward 2020 has presented technology and finance leaders with an unprecedented level of disruption. The need to bring future forward while continuing to move at the pace of the market, has never been greater. Critical to that will be the ability to effectively leverage approa...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns. New Date: 11/5/2020 The last five years have seen rapid changes in the tools and technologies available to government agencies. These new solutions offer capabilities that expand and enhance the government’s ability to provide services to citizens in a more efficient and manageable way. The Federal Cloud Computing Strategy of Cloud Sm...