GTRA Technology Council Meeting - Government IT Security CollaborationJune 22 - 24, 2014The Lansdowne, Leesburg, VA The GTRA Technology Council Meeting brings together an elite group of federal IT leaders who believe in the importance of executive-level collaboration and information exchange to support the transformation of the federal government through IT. Collaborative discussions will focus on the critical issues currently facing the commu...

On March 4, 2014, the U.S. Government’s Office of Science and Technology Policy released a Request For Information on Big Data. This RFI came in response to President Obama calling for senior government officials to review how Big Data will affect the way Americans live and work, and the implications of collecting, analyzing and using Big Data for the economy, privacy and public policy. The Federal Big Data Summit: Solving Real Problems...

Federal agencies face ever growing volume and diversity in their data. And they’re being asked to do more with the data they do have. Data must be more open, too, such as the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act 2014, signed into law on May 9, which requires federal agencies to publish their spending data in a standardized, machine-readable format that the public can access through USASpending.gov. Roughly 90% of the data in the w...

Governments develop, share, and maintain large amounts of unstructured data which can account for storage and/or backups reaching 20-40% YOY growth. The IT staff needs to gain a better understanding of what is in their file storage prior to embarking on projects, such as data migrations, remediation, and moving file shares. Classification and archival is a critical component of managing the security and growth of this data. Join us on June 17t...

Reduce Risk & the Administrative Nightmare: Key Management for Storage Encryption Explosive data growth, sophisticated data breaches, government regulations, and data storage requirements have caused agencies to deploy a combination of storage security solutions. Often, agencies rely on vendor-specific key management, which leads to fragmented, unsecure key stores and policies that need to be managed and maintained individually. Disparate...

The 2014 Cloud Computing Policy Conference will discuss the key issues on the US Cloud Computing agenda. It will explore market developments in cloud computing and how businesses and government administrations can best exploit the opportunities offered by the technology. This event will feature a keynote address from Maureen K. Ohlhaussen, Federal Trade Commissioner. Central to the discussions will also be a debate on how to frame and deliver...

The 2014 Akamai Government Forum – June 5th in Washington D.C. at the Renaissance Hotel Secure computing is the IT architect of the future. The use of cloud technology is helping to streamline the way agencies operate and reshape the security landscape. Cloud security is accelerating the transformation of agency systems from something to be passively guarded into a suite of capabilities that offer government leaders opportunities to adju...

Today's challenges are complex: shrinking budgets and resources, rising citizen expectations, and the pace of technology and innovation. What can you do to meet these challenges and lead today? More importantly, how can you prepare for a future shaped by these forces of change?Join us in Washington, DC on May 22 and see how agencies are using analytics to respond to these challenges and achieve their mission goals.You’ll discover how to...

IDGA’s Data Center Optimization has redefined its scope by addressing not only consolidation, but also other forms of optimization. By attending this event, IT, government and military professionals will have the opportunity to exchange valuable business information, as well as gain valuable insight on how to achieve your own task-specific missions as well as those overarching organizational goals. Addressing consolidation, energy effici...

A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM IS DETERMINED BY THE VALUE AND ACCESS OF INFORMATION. The event will be presented by Don Styer, Director of Innovation and Paul McMullen, Discovery Informatics Product Manager. Proper analysis of your teams’ resources, performance and output is a critical component of managing an efficient and effective program office or PEO. Discovery Informatics, WBB’s suite of decision support and business discovery solution...