For more than a decade, the federal government has taken steps to address its aging IT infrastructure, such as consolidating data centers, moving to the cloud, pushing compute capabilities to the edge, and more. Agencies have recognized the power of data, but they need to address how information is fragmented and stored across multiple platforms. When the American Rescue Plan became law in March 2021, one element was a $2 billion boost for fed...

Learn how vSphere with Tanzu can leverage efficient, scalable, and high speed storage in Dell’s PowerStore platform to backup and contain persistent data for your applications running on Kubernetes

Every year much is written about just how much agencies spend on maintaining outdated legacy systems. Every dollar spent on keeping obsolete systems running means less is available to invest in IT transformation, blocking the new technologies and applications that Americans have come to expect. Unfortunately, the underlying structure of the federal budget process historically has made it extremely difficult to break the cycle. By shifting to t...

The pandemic may have crushed the daily commute in every sector, but it did not change the national security mission of the Intelligence Community or the Department of Defense. Those elements of the federal government suddenly faced the challenge of how to implement remote solutions for employees working on classified or sensitive assignments without jeopardizing their objectives. The Intelligence and National Security Foundation concluded rec...

Gathering lots of data is easy in today’s environment—most programs are already collecting more than they can handle. How that data is used to make better decisions on mission-critical programs is harder. The President’s Management Agenda makes it clear that agency data should be used strategically to improve performance, identify inefficiencies and cost savings, and provide transparency. Building a culture of analytics, incl...

Every year much is written about just how much agencies spend on maintaining outdated legacy systems. Every dollar spent on keeping obsolete systems running means less is available to invest in IT transformation, blocking the new technologies and applications that Americans have come to expect. Unfortunately, the underlying structure of the federal budget process historically has made it extremely difficult to break the cycle. By shifting to t...

The Federal Chief Data Officers Council was formed to lead transformational change that improves the nation’s ability to leverage data and analytics to serve the public efficiently and effectively. Data governance is a critical aspect of the chief data officer’s role, and the Council is establishing government-wide best practices for the management, use, protection, dissemination, and generation of data. How are agencies dealing wi...

How can organizations maintain the standards of their environments, and protect them? Learn how SaltStack Config can be used along with vRealize Automation to configure workloads deployed into your environment and maintain those standards from drift. We will use vRealize Automation to deploy our template, and then configure the workloads and maintain them using SaltStack Config.

DevOps and DevSecOps are philosophies, movements and even cultures of continuous improvement and integrated security – at scale. The result delivers a powerful advantage for government agencies at all levels which are undergoing digital transformation: faster and more securereleases, greater interoperability and the freedom to focus on the mission. Cloud-native tools such as Kubernetes provide insight into what is happening within an app...

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has the potential to automate entire processes or parts of processes that are repetitive, monotonous and occur in high volumes. Named by Gartner as a #1 strategic technology trend, Hyperautomation validates automation yet elevates it to show how the combination of RPA and disruptive technologies such as AI, machine learning (ML), process mining, decision management, natural language processing (NLP), and more c...