By 2020, an estimated 30-50 billion devices will be connected to the internet. Each of these devices will collect and communicate massive amounts of data, and as these devices become more sophisticated they are incorporating the ability to analyze the data and plan, manage and make intelligent decisions autonomously about sharing that information via embedded machine-to-machine communications with other internet-capable devices. DoD, to some e...

The GAO calculates that over 75% of our nation's IT budget is spent solely on maintaining legacy IT systems. In other words, $62 billion for obsolete software and hardware that is expensive and time-consuming to keep and inflexible to today's federal business processes. On the other hand, over 77% of government IT decision-makers express a need for a more flexible and agile IT framework. Consolidated data centers, shared services, cloud capabi...