As agencies execute initiatives to adopt the cloud, increase agility, and cut costs, they find that their data tier presents significant obstacles. Databases are continuously growing larger and are tied to legacy platforms, making them too important to risk outages during and after modernization projects. Using cutting-edge database virtualization, Delphix enables more agile data management that eliminates redundant infrastructure and slow pro...

Join Carahsoft and Adobe to learn how using Acrobat X can save over 7 hours a week per knowledge worker in your agency. With tools to create Accessible and standards compliant documents, along with new automation options, Acrobat X not only helps you work better with everyone, it also saves time and money. Register today to join an Acrobat Solutions Engineer, Lisa Croft with Adobe Systems Inc., who will demonstrate how the power of Acrobat X a...

Software assurance has become a trending topic in the public sector. There has been a dramatic increase in application attacks and, as a result, many agencies are starting to receive mandates to secure their software. How exactly do we secure our software? Software assurance is much more than just buying security software: a holistic approach must be used to include security in every phase of the software development lifecycle. Fortunately, a...

In the last several months we have monitored an apparent surge in targeted attacks against government agencies. Cybercriminals have shifted the way they target agencies, abandoning large-scale, generalized attacks in favor of more targeted, dynamic techniques with bigger payoffs, including spear-phishing and “whaling”. Because targeted cybercrime is so profitable, perpetrators are highly motivated to find new ways to gather sensiti...

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...

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...

VMware's 4th Annual Federal Technical Conference (FEDTECH) Are you consolidating federal servers or data centers? Are you building the foundation for your agency’s cloud infrastructure? Are you helping to better equip your colleagues for telework or continuity of operations? If not, would you like to? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you’ll want to join VMware and our co-sponsoring partners at the 4th Annual FEDT...

This year at VMworld 2009, discover how virtualization is revolutionizing the next generation of computing—providing efficiency and flexibility at a time when both are critical to the future of IT.