The Federal budget allocates over $3 billion dollars for modernization of information technology infrastructure. While these efforts will help to reduce operations and maintenance costs through greater efficiency, they will also open doors to innovation and the introduction of new technologies. Several factors are driving this, including increasing mobility and the need to update desktop operating systems on hundreds of thousands of federal PC...

According to IDC, outdated federal IT networks are incapable of fully exploiting the extensive advantages of the mobility, cloud, social networking, and big data analytics technologies collectively. This modern infrastructure will allow agencies to develop flexible networks that can easily and cost-effectively adapt to the changing needs of federal employees, citizens, and warfighters. Agencies are holding back because of concerns that moderni...