As government agencies pursue OMB’s Cloud First policy, Federal CIOs are taking a hard look at issues like vendor lock-in, contract incongruity, data ownership, and reporting and policy compliance. Coupled with the Federal CIO’s recent Digital Services Playbook with its Default to Open mandate, agencies are looking to move to the cloud using more agile, open approaches. This briefing will discuss the use of modern technologies such...

According to the Government Accountability Office, 70% of government’s information technology budget is spent maintaining legacy systems. With the ever-growing demands for innovative and mobile technologies and rapid solutions to citizen needs, agencies are seeking ways to shave dollars and time off the application development process. Innovations in software development like agile computing, platform as a service, and the use of open so...

The delivery of infrastructure assets over the cloud is one of the most significant trends in IT today, and the White House's Office of Management and Budget projects that federal agencies will spend more than $2.8 billion on cloud computing services in fiscal year 2015. Driving this movement to the cloud is the need for greater computing performance and efficiency with a reduction in risk and cost. Middleware plays a pivotal role in integrati...

As more and more agencies move commodity IT and now mission critical apps to the cloud, integration and modernization of software is becoming more important. This panel will focus on how agencies are taking this challenge on and the role open source and platform-as-a-service could play in this effort. The panel also will look at the challenges of integrated legacy systems in the cloud and with new apps. Using examples from the public sector, t...

As agencies move both their business and mission critical applications to the cloud, integration and modernization of software have become increasingly important. Government agencies are now using middleware to tie together data, devices and applications. As a result, new applications are deployed at lower risk, greater speed, and with better performance. This webinar will focus on the middleware tools agencies are using to integrate disparate...