Federal agencies are under pressure to optimize data center efficiency and effectiveness. As agencies serve mobile users, manage expanding flows of data, and employ platforms, services and infrastructures as a service, these data centers must be dynamic, elastic and reliable. These imperatives are sparking fresh thinking about how federal agencies should approach network management. A key challenge is that hardware-centric networks cannot supp...

Federal networks are straining under demands posed by increased use of mobile devices, teleworking and alternative schedules, bandwidth-hungry applications, video traffic, cyber risks, and exploding data volumes. Many agencies have invested in modernizing the desktop, compute and storage domains of their IT infrastructures. But they nevertheless find themselves saddled with outdated legacy networking environments comprised of single-function a...

This educational, one-day symposium will examine the tools and technology Federal agencies are using to optimize and transform their networks, allowing end-users to become more productive, agile and efficient. (View Agenda)The MITRE-ATARC Network Collaboration Symposium features discussion and white-boarding between government and industry subject matter experts in a small-group setting. The outcomes of these sessions will be compiled in a Whi...

Traditional networks and data centers were never designed to handle today’s growth in bandwidth-intensive applications and are now being stretched beyond their limits. Enter Software Defined Networking (SDN), which is designed to address issues such as speed, scalability, and resistance. Please join us on the morning of March 17, 2016 from 7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. for an ATARC Federal Executive Briefing on Software Defined Networking...