The ATARC Federal Cloud & Data Center Summit will be held on August 3, 2017 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center in Washington, D.C. (Cloud & Data Center Summit Agenda) This educational, one-day symposium will examine the Cloud tools and techniques being used by the Federal Government to provide agencies with greater efficiency and cost savings. The event is free to government and full-time academics and qualifies for 7.5 CPE cre...

Learn about Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement and how we can assist your federal IT acquisition with the latest IT product solutions. On Monday, July 24, 2017, from 11:15am - 12:30pm, SEWP will be hosting a Panel Presetation in Session A13 intitle "Use if GWACs" ~ Acquiring IT Services Panel discussions on the various tools used for IT acquisitions. After World Congress concludes, grab lunch on your own and then join SEWP for an aftern...

Nearly seven years ago, the U.S. government began a mandated march to the cloud to accelerate the pace of innovation and contain costs. What about the cloud is working or not working? Are agencies fully realizing the promised cost savings? How pervasive is cloud adoption? And, what workloads are agencies putting into the cloud? A survey of 150 military, civilian and intelligence agency technology decision makers, conducted by Market Connection...

Learn about Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement and how we can assist your federal IT acquisition with the latest IT product solutions. On Thursday, June 22, 2017, from 8:00am - 3:00pm, SEWP will be hosting two training sessions. Please use link to register for SEWP morning session from 9:00am - 11:00am and afternoon session from 1:00pm - 3:00pm. NASA SEWP is a government-wide acquisition contract (GWAC) that provides the latest IT prod...

Back by Popular Demand! Top officials and experts from the government IT community return to the highly sought after Public Sector Innovation Summit. Join us to continue conversations on high-priority issues from cost-effective cloud security to mobility solutions and explore new areas of development including big security and transforming IT environments. As government IT functions continue to demand cost-effective, efficient and flexible ent...

In some ways, cloud has become a foregone conclusion in federal IT strategies. As agencies look to modernize their IT enterprise, consolidate their data centers, and develop a new generation of IT services, the importance of the cloud is beyond argument. Cloud is expected to play a critical role in two major initiatives: Legacy IT modernization and data center consolidation. In both cases, cloud is seen as a way to make existing systems more f...

Government agencies face complex choices when moving to the cloud, but the benefits are compelling. Budgetary pressures are driving the need to lower operations and maintenance costs and cybersecurity concerns are escalating the need for modernization. This webinar will explore the techniques government can use to optimize their IT operations, consolidate data centers, improve governance and compliance, and chose the right approach for their a...

Securing a 21st century government – from the data center to the cloud to the web – means exercising greater control over the uncontrollable. The reality of today’s instant access, always-on world means that a lot can – and often does – go wrong. So, how can our government remain focused on combatting increasingly sophisticated cyber threats while accelerating service and mission delivery with integrated intellige...

2017 DATA CENTER BRAINSTORM - Data Center Optimization: The Piggy Bank for Federal IT Modernization In 2016, the White House pushed IT modernization to the forefront of Federal agencies’ agendas – with an updated Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) and the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) paving the way. 2017 brings a new Administration. IT modernization is still center stage of Federal IT agend...

Citizen Engagement Summit: Meeting the Demands of the Digital Citizen Digital services are moving out of start-up mode. Once the province of Silicon Valley expatriates and a small group of e-government enthusiasts, the field of digital services has come to be seen as essential to much-needed efforts to transform how agencies provide information and services to the public. The need for transformation is being driven by public expectations...