Making Big Data User-Centric Part II The modern data environment is not only about size; it is growing increasingly distributed and decentralized. Today, organizations are being inundated with data from an ever-expanding array of internal and external sources. Traditional databases and data warehouses are getting bigger and bigger alongside silos of new data types popping up across the enterprise. Volume, variety and complexity are the reality...

As technology continues to permeate nearly every area of daily life, citizen expectations for interacting with government entities are shifting. Citizens today want a personalized, multi-channel experience when interacting with government services. In this webinar, featured speaker Ruthbea Clarke, Research Director of the global Smart Cities Strategies program at IDC, will address how to build a robust citizen engagement strategy through digit...

6 Mistakes You're Making By Using "Public Cloud"-Based File Sync & Share for Government Business 1. Trusting The Public Cloud. You or others in your agency are already using applications like Google Drive and Dropbox to share business documents because those services are easy to use. But your colleagues may be jeopardizing security, especially from within government offices. You should limit users from taking files of any classification to...

Government Cloud Brokerage: Who, What, When, Where, Why? Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore the Administration’s establishment of the Cloud First policy and how agencies are taking full advantage of cloud computing in order to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. As agencies seek to combine d...

CDC and Virtual Events Declines in budgets have negatively affected the public health community making it hard to participate in traditional meetings, trainings and events. The concept of developing immersive Virtual Instances (VIs) of in-person gatherings, making them feel more real, interactive and useful; as well as delivering them within a fully accessible, secure environment, has been the mission of the recently formed Virtual Platform In...

Eliminating the Pitfalls: Steps to Virtualization in Government Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore how agencies are tackling the pitfalls inherent in virtualization to fulfill Administration initiatives like cloud adoption, data center consolidation, .greening of I.T., and telework. Virtualization is at the heart of these programs, and government...

The Intersection of Customer Service and Security in the Cloud For the past two years, agencies have been making the jump to the cloud. Many first made the jump to the cloud for back-office systems, such as email or Web hosting. But more recently, agencies are seeing value in putting mission critical IT systems in the cloud. At the same time, federal chief information officers still are coming to terms with how cloud providers secure their pub...

Government Cloud Brokerage: Who, What, Where, When, Why? The Administration’s establishment of the Cloud First policy opens the door for agencies to take full advantage of cloud computing in order to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. As agencies seek to combine different cloud services or legacy systems, they need a seamless form of integration. The result is the exploration of C...

Join Christine Wade of CaaSus, LLC and Gunjan Talati of Reed Smith LLP for the second installment of a 3-Part Series on Subcontracting, Teaming and Flow Downs. This course is being presented online in 3 parts on December 3rd, 10th, and 17th. Courses may be taken in isolation, or as a group. The webinars will present key purchasing/procurement instruction relative to: Subcontract Management & Administration - Complete on Dec 3.Teaming Agree...

The Cyber Threat Landscape: Mitigating Threats Inside and Outside of your Agency Did you know? The estimated annual cost of global cyber crime is $100 billion. There are over 1.5 million victims per day. 59% of ex-employees admitted to stealing proprietary data when leaving their previous job. US Navy sees 110,000 cyber attacks every hour - more than 30 every single second. Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this ed...