Now more than ever, agencies cannot afford to get burned by legacy infrastructure investments that not only fail to provide the agility required today, but that are also excessively expensive. To both maximize productivity and mission efficiency, more agencies are prioritizing hybrid cloud initiatives as their cloud-smart strategy. Among the best ways to realize this vision is software-defined infrastructure like hyperconverged infrastructure...

As the pandemic closed shops and business, many people lost jobs and applied for unemployment. Record numbers of calls starting flooding unemployment offices. The Internal Revenue Service started getting a torrent of calls and inquiries about larger federal unemployment benefits. Agencies throughout the government have been working to provide information and fast responses in an always on digital world. New cloud communications platforms can d...

The ultimate payoff from a move to a cloud platform is that it offers faster, flexible and more secure access to the data that is essential for the agency’s mission. Learn how new architectures and tools simplify data protection, disaster recovery and cloud mobility across hybrid environments. Utilizing emerging technology to prepare for the migration can speed the process and reduce costs. In addition, simplified backup and recovery can...

Agencies often need to work with multiple public cloud providers and with on-premises data centers as well. For all the benefits that come with the variety of providers, it also presents challenges when workloads need to be moved from one provider to another and back. This webcast will look at the challenges that agencies face with safeguarding data that will be accessed by a growing VDI workforce and how they are managing the operational comp...

As horizons stretch for the remote work force and the prospect of returning to the office any time soon looks less likely, agencies are looking for way to make data accessible, anywhere, anytime in a cost effective way. A multi-cloud approach can offer such a solution—a way to virtualize workloads and move data from servers to virtual desktops and from on-premises centers to the public cloud and back. Learn from a key executive how one a...

In the decade since "Cloud First" debuted as a formal goal of government, federal agencies have made tremendous progress in transforming both their IT infrastructure and modernization strategies. But as the (relatively) easy migrations have been made, the remaining systems and workloads require decidedly more complex approaches. The 2020 Federal 100 winners include experts in all aspects of "Cloud Smart" modernization, from security to scalabi...

IT modernization is a leap into the digital future, and cloud computing is its springboard. In the federal sector, cloud is quickening the advancement of mobile technology, data analytics, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, agile computing, streamlined development models and advanced cybersecurity. The outcome is growing efficiency and effectiveness in agencies’ missions, improved customer service at agencies seeking to emu...