WELCOME TO INTERFACE Alaska 2022! IT Infrastructure is constantly changing, bringing more new challenges with it every day. From ransomware and the latest security threats to needs for increased bandwidth and storage, it’s nearly impossible to keep up to date. Our conference is designed to help. We’ve assembled a combination of Best-in-Breed hardware and software solutions, along with local experts and organizations, to help educat...

WELCOME TO INTERFACE Hawaii-SoCal 2022! IT Infrastructure is constantly changing, bringing more new challenges with it every day. From ransomware and the latest security threats to needs for increased bandwidth and storage, it’s nearly impossible to keep up to date. Our conference is designed to help. We’ve assembled a combination of Best-in-Breed hardware and software solutions, along with local experts and organizations, to help...

The COVID pandemic spurred agencies to move their data and applications to the cloud quicker than many had planned to make it more accessible for a remote workforce and to protect it from intensifying cyberattacks. More than a year into the new normal world of remote work, agencies are evaluating the best ways to secure the hybrid and multi clouds and their data troves to make sure it can meet the increased challenges. In May 2020, the Biden A...

The Department of Defense's cloud strategy aims to transform virtually every aspect of the warfighting effort, and has resulted in a rapidly growing ecosystem of both general-purpose and fit-for-purpose clouds. Some of those efforts are unique to DOD, reflecting the scale, missions and austere operating environments of military operations, while others are readily transferrable to most any agency. All, however, hold valuable lessons for those...

It’s been a decade since "Cloud First" was put forth as a formal goal of government. In that time, agencies have moved from wary experimentation to straightforward "lift and shift" efforts to, increasingly, enterprise as-a-service solutions. The question is no longer whether to leverage cloud servicers, but how best to do so. Yet as the easier moves to the cloud have been made, the remaining systems and workloads require decidedly more c...

IT modernization has been a federal priority for years, but many agencies still struggle to turn that goal into a practical plan of action. Securing multi-year funding is one challenge, but the fundamental obstacle is often the sheer complexity of transforming government-scale systems. Smart, successful modernization demands a holistic approach that addresses several essential pillars: security, network infrastructure, multi-cloud architecture...

Most government agencies have made the journey to cloud since the Cloud First and Cloud Smart strategies came from OMB starting in 2010. Many organizations have more than one cloud. The challenge becomes blending the different types of cloud and service models to provide access to needed data, while at the same time protecting a much enlarged attack surface created by the large number of workers who are accessing the data remotely. If there is...

Technology Business Management (TBM) Conference 2020 (TBMC20) **TBM Conference named as a global top tech conference by CIO Dive (www.ciodive.com) Theme: Bringing Future Forward 2020 has presented technology and finance leaders with an unprecedented level of disruption. The need to bring future forward while continuing to move at the pace of the market, has never been greater. Critical to that will be the ability to effectively leverage approa...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns. New Date: 11/5/2020 The last five years have seen rapid changes in the tools and technologies available to government agencies. These new solutions offer capabilities that expand and enhance the government’s ability to provide services to citizens in a more efficient and manageable way. The Federal Cloud Computing Strategy of Cloud Sm...

First floated as an idea in 2010, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program was officially launched in 2012 as a government-wide program to secure cloud products and services. A recent audit by the General Accountability Office showed that more than 900 government cloud projects have been authorized by FedRAMP, but hundreds more continue to operate without authorizations, which presents a kaleidoscope of security challenges to the...