With the development of Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), agencies and departments are falling under scrutiny with their consolidation efforts. These efforts span far beyond a simple exercise of placing multiple servers into a single room, rather the FDCCI initiative focuses on physically collapsing data centers to a much fewer number, with concentrations on cutting costs and securing the overall environment. The establishm...

This IDC Government Insights web conference will look at how open source software is influencing government data center consolidation. Federal agencies have been mandated to consolidate data centers, and both government IT managers and commercial systems integrators (SIs) are focusing on the selection of open source solutions and open software stacks to help ease this transition. With federal investment, centralized open source solution stacks...

If you ship batteries by ground or air, you must comply with DOT or IATA regulations for how the batteries are packaged, marked, labeled, and transported. The rules apply not only to batteries, but also to equipment or vehicles that contain batteries. Virtually all types of batteries are regulated, including lithium, lead-acid, nickel cadmium, and metal hydride, alkaline. All personnel involved in the packaging, marking, labeling, or shipment...

Government IT and Facilities managers challenged with consolidating and improving the efficiency of their data centers must do so without compromising availability. In this webinar, you will learn: - How integrated management systems that provide essential power quality, disturbance and consumption data can be used to increase power system reliability and optimize efficiency; - How Sequence of Events Recording (SER) can greatly reduce the dura...

Join webinar leader, Keven Gambold, Squadron Leader, Royal Air Force (RAF) as he challenges the “accepted wisdom” within today’s UAV fields.Participants will learn: What future UAV designs will need to look like and what they will be capable of, including larger unmanned (Boeing 737) operations Exclusive ‘out of the box’ design considerations from a UAV pilot and expert in Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) What key i...

Virtualization is having a significant impact across infrastructure and operations. This webinar presents a concise focus on what actions you need to take in the virtualization as a core IT scenario realizing better savings across IT and enabling many other IT projects and functions. Virtualization now drives efficient IT from all angles, including data center design, power and cooling initiatives, platform refresh, application and infrastruc...

This webinar, with Lieutenant-Colonel Bruno Vanasse, Former Deputy Director for Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) in the Canadian Army, focuses on the interaction between strategy and communications in light of lessons observed from the mission in Afghanistan. More specifically, the requirements for support at home and abroad will be highlighted, and how both military and civilian leaders can more effectively in the future deal with the politi...

In tackling the administration’s open government initiative, the Department of Defense must walk a fine line to balance the imperatives of public transparency with the protection of national security. Have security concerns made transparency a greater challenge for DoD agencies? Moving forward, what resources do DoD agencies need to foster greater openness and collaboration? The Government Business Council (GBC), the research division of...

Join us for this live webcast with featured speaker Thom Rubel of IDC Government Insights and Michael Rowley of Active Endpoints. Listen to their perspectives about the opportunities government agencies - federal, state and local - have to develop "smart applications" to improve service delivery and efficiency, and how a standards-based Business Process Management System (BPMS) can provide the technology to enable this kind of innovation. The...

This five-hour course will prepare you to ship dangerous goods by air in accordance with the International Air Transport Association's Dangerous Goods Regulations. Topics include how to determine which materials are regulated, how to package dangerous goods for air transportation, special requirements for consumer commodities, and marking and labeling requirements. You will also learn how to use the international regulations within the guideli...