Government healthcare leaders know that patient experience and workforce engagement are intertwined, but often teams lack the time and resources to analyze this data in real time and understand the connection. Additionally, the pandemic has exposed lingering inequities in the way healthcare, and other social services are delivered at the federal, state, and local levels. Leaders agree that improving patient experience and enhancing employee en...

This exclusive Open House Event is for existing and future Federal customers, as well as partners. Tour our cloud-smart, enterprise-grade facility and learn more about our FedRAMP-ready Cyxtera Platform for Government. Learn how we’re enabling agencies to adhere to cloud-smart mandates while optimizing their IT spend with our custom on-demand infrastructure and interconnection solutions. Network with your peers over beers and BBQ and mee...

Building the Platform of the Future: A rapid Response model for government As the government workforce continues to follow a hybrid model of remote and in-person service delivery, it’s widely recognized that cloud is the key ingredient for rapidly responding to change. Instead of reacting to unforeseen crises, government agencies must proactively align their technology to quickly respond to citizen needs, from the devastating impact of a...

Organizations are constantly under increasing pressure to provide always-on availability of applications and services. Meeting these expectations calls for an IT resilience strategy that protects against unexpected disruptions that can take services offline and disrupt business operations. Federal agencies must employ a DR strategy that does not merely protect data, but also provides fully automated failover and an ability to routinely test re...

Time and time again, data breaches demonstrate the pitfalls of relying on detection to identify malicious activities taking place on the network, rather than prevention of the threat in the first place. The emphasis—post event—has been what the agency did wrong. But, what if we took a different approach that allowed agencies to share what has been working for them? Both before and after. Some tips and lessons from folks who have be...

In just a few short years, Robotic Process Automation has gone from a few scattered pilot projects to an essential tool deployed by dozens of agencies. Hundreds of thousands of staff-hours have been saved, and organizations are increasingly looking to leverage artificial intelligence to automate more-complicated workflows. Automation at scale comes with challenges, however -- from credential management to siloed systems to ensuring that outdat...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns. New Dates: 10/19-10/21/2021 Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21): Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience advances a national policy to strengthen and maintain secure, functioning, and resilient critical infrastructure. The Nation’s critical infrastructure provides the essential services that underpin American society. Pr...

The concept of disaster recovery can have many meanings for federal agencies. And what exactly defines a disaster? Well-publicized ransomware attacks are certainly one example where public-facing organizations require proactive response plans to recover critical systems. But that’s just one scenario – and any agency leader will understand the value of people, processes and technology as key pieces to a well-tested, affordable recov...

Join David Hughes, founder of Silver Peak and Aruba CTO and Conrad Menezes from the office of the CTO for an interactive tech talk on how COVID-19 and today’s “work from anywhere” normal is accelerating cloud adoption and digital transformation and driving the requirement to transform conventional data center and MPLS-centric networks and perimeter-based security models to a modern cloud-native, internet-based SASE arch...

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