Data Center Flexibility & Efficiency: Increasing the Business Value of IT [ Source: IBM ]
May 2013- Devising a plan to cut spending may stress federal agencies. But cost reduction opens up opportunities for innovation. To leverage such opportunities, it's critical to have a flexible, efficient data center strategy. Learn how to create one by reading the white paper executive summary. And explore management lessons that can positively impact your IT.
The Power of Cloud: Driving Business Model Innovation [ Source: IBM ]
May 2013- Although cloud capabilities offer numerous opportunities to drive business innovation, its potential beyond technological capabilities remains virtually untapped. Read the white paper to learn more about the benefits of cloud-enabled business models in promoting sustainable competitive advantage.
Government Analytics: Set Goals, Drive Accountability and Improve Outcomes [ Source: IBM ]
May 2013- Access to reliable, cross-department mission and financial and operational performance information is crucial to ensure transparency and accountability. Read the white paper to see how analytics unites data silos so that government agencies can set goals, make more informed decisions and achieve improved outcomes for citizens.
Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure [ Source: Blue River Information Technology and Riverbed ]
March 2013-
Seamless integration between the data center and globally distributed locations at the edge
Maximizing user productivity regardless of where they reside is a key requirement but for branch offices, there is a particular challenge - where to place the resources the users need. Typically, it is a choice between the branch and the data center.
So what is the best approach? Until now, organizations had to choose between one or the ...
Simplifying Programs for Better Performance and Reinvestment Opportunities in the Public Sector [ Source: Oracle ]
March 2013-
In the public sector, obtaining funding increases for anything except the most critical of mission objectives will be near impossible for the foreseeable future. Yet, agencies must continue to deliver excellent service to citizens despite stagnant or reduced budgets. The federal government leadership is being challenged to cut spending and reinvest in areas with greater opportunity.
This paper reviews the Federal CIO's strategic approach to achieve more with less. You'll also learn how ...
IBM Platform Symphony Government [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- The drive to capitalize on big data in government is strong, yet the influx of this data is presenting new challenges for IT departments. For example, analyzing and storing big data requires substantial infrastructure resources, but with declining budgets and limited data center capacities, IT groups cannot simply add hardware as they might have in the past. To control costs, they need to make better use of existing resources. To take advantage of big data ...
What is an Enterprise-Class MapReduce Distributed Run-Time Engine, and Why Use It? [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- The explosive growth of data is creating significant challenges for many companies. Challenges include physical storage, lack of data mobility, and the escalating costs of managing, storing and processing large, growing data sets. Organizations need the ability to analyze and gain insights from vast amounts of retained data for a variety of business purposes including customer billing, fraud detection and data mining to find new revenue opportunities. This collection of challenges is often referred to ...
Best Practices Guide for IT Governance & Compliance [ Source: Dell Software ]
January 2013-
Federal regulations and internal policies both require businesses to know exactly what changes are being made to structured and unstructured data in their corporate networks. Accordingly, IT organizations need to provide more detailed monitoring, analysis, auditing, and reporting on those changes.
This white paper explains the key provisions of four important federal regulations (HIPAA, GLBA, SOX and PCI DSS) details the three steps for establishing and maintaining compliance. Plus, you'll learn about best ...
Server Sprawl And Cost Reduction Bring New Customers To Mainframe/Linux Platform [ Source: IBM ]
December 2012- Many organizations that have migrated to distributed platforms over the decades are finding themselves revisiting a centralized approach. Read the Forrester white paper and learn how consolidating and virtualizing your IT operations with an Enterprise Linux Server can reduce the toll of server sprawl by cutting costs and complexity while sustaining performance.
The Total Economic Impact of IBM System Z [ Source: IBM ]
December 2012-
This Forrester Total Economic Impact analysis is based on interviews with and data provided by 5 System z customers. The analysis shows a composite ROI of 199% and a pay back of 4.67 months when compared to distributed system alternatives. The sources of customer savings identified were related to less administrative staff required, reduced infrastructure maintenance, reduced storage costs and reduced down time expenses.
Additionally the analysis found that these firms had more flexible and responsive ...
Key Attributes Backup Software Needs to Simplify VM Data Protection [ Source: Dell Software ]
September 2012-
As a federal IT professional, you see the rapid rate at which applications servers are being virtualized. So how can you keep up with the demand and still ensure that the critical data your agency stores in those virtual machines can be easily recovered in the event of a disaster? The answer: A comprehensive backup software that meets five critical requirements.
See what they are in this white paper, 5 Key Attributes Backup Software ...
Adopting a Service Centric Approach to Backup & Recovery [ Source: Dell Software ]
September 2012-
This solution brief explores the business challenges driving the need to move beyond traditional backup and recovery practices which are of key importance to the federal government.
Each agency's IT organization must shift from an infrastructure-centric view of backup and recovery to a services-centric view, focusing on protecting mission-critical applications and databases, regardless of whether they reside in physical, virtual or cloud environments.
Quest's data protection solution, NetVault Extended Architecture, delivers ...
Leveraging 20th century technology in 21st century government [ Source: IBM ]
August 2012- In these times of rapid innovation, more effective government requires investment to leverage technological advancements that can deliver next-generation services in a more efficient and transparent way. Investing to modernize government runs counter to conventional wisdom in a harsh economic climate that prompts mandates to slash budgets, but the increased need for government services across an expanding portfolio of processes and programs has made it unavoidable.
End-to-End Virtualization: A Holistic Approach for a Dynamic Environment [ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
Virtualization 3.0 expands virtualization beyond just hypervisors and servers. Server virtualization has been the catalyst for the 3.0 era, and it has driven transformation into every aspect of the datacenter, such as storage, networking, and management. The virtualization of all aspects of the datacenter, not just compute, will create the foundation for the cloud model of computing.
Achieving this requires a holistic approach to virtualization and the ongoing management in order to create a unified, ...
From Virtualization To Cloud: A Worthwhile Journey [ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
Thirty-six percent of enterprise IT leaders surveyed said that implementing a private cloud is a high or critical priority for 2012, but Forrester research suggests that most of these companies aren't operationally ready to make this transition and need to take key operational improvement steps to get there.
Survey data suggests the main challenges are: 1)understanding the stark differences between traditional virtualization and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and 2)overcoming internal resistance to change.
This ...
Federal Government Solution Brief [ Source: HP ]
June 2012-
As the U.S. economy continues to sputter, the federal government has intensified its focus on using IT to enable innovation and create new avenues for joint operations and operational efficiency.
Government agencies that want to harness the power of cloud computing, data center consolidation, cyber security, and energy efficiency can look to the HP FlexNetwork architecture, the industry’s only unified network architecture. With the HP FlexNetwork architecture, agencies can deploy solutions ...
Unleashing Cloud Performance [ Source: Riverbed ]
April 2012- Want to eliminate spiraling cost and complexity of your IT infrastructure? Riverbed can help by delivering cloud services with LAN-like performance across your organization. In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.
Private Sector Cyber Security as a National Security Issue [ Source: Bloomberg Government ]
January 2012- In this revealing study, Bloomberg Government discusses the need for the U.S. government and corporations to plug cyber-security gaps that threaten the economy, sensitive data and military communications. Bloomberg Government defense analyst Rob Levinson examines the ongoing efforts to expand the government's role in securing non-government systems, and discusses concerns over costs and privacy issues.
JBoss Enterprise Middleware, by Red Hat: Technical Support Services Leader [ Source: Red Hat ]
December 2010- Organizations of all sizes have dramatically lowered the cost of their application environments with enterprise open source solutions such as the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. These enterprises and ISVs often chose JBoss Enterprise Middleware because of its broad portfolio, price point, performance and scalability, and flexibility. Not surprisingly, many customers have found professional support services can magnify the benefits of the open source technology system. Expert support services can provide faster problem resolution, innovative consultation, ...
Creating value in the Public Sector: intelligent project selection in the US federal government [ Source: Oracle ]
March 2012- Federal agencies are refining program management practices in response to the Obama administration's Government Accountability Initiative. Learn more.
IT Management for 21st Century Government [ Source: Solarwinds ]
September 2011-
SolarWinds IT management products are used by virtually every civilian agency, state government, and branch of the military.
Discover why SolarWinds provides powerful and affordable IT management software to federal, state, local and education customers - from enterprise deployments to tactical networks supporting warfighters. Built by IT pros for IT pros, our products are downloadable, easy-to-use and maintain, and provide the power, scale, and flexibility required to manage today's complex, multi-vendor IT environments. <...
Continuous Monitoring: What It Is, Why It Is Needed, and How to Use It [ Source: Tripwire ]
August 2011-
Continuous monitoring enables information security professionals and others to see a continuous stream of near real-time snapshots of the state of risk to their security, data, the network, end points, and even cloud devices and applications. Assessing security controls as well as ongoing monitoring of security controls are both directly assisted by continuous monitoring through vulnerability monitoring processes, which many organizations already have in place.
In this white paper SANS Analyst, Dr. E. ...
Mind The Gap: CISOs Work To Narrow The Breach-To-Detection Gap For Better Security [ Source: Tripwire ]
August 2011- In this age of compliance, most retailers do what’s required to become compliant, but often fail to improve security through these efforts. In fact, several organizations have achieved compliance but still have been breached—even though they had the data needed to head those breaches off before any significant damage was done. So how did they miss this critical evidence? Unfortunately, IT security teams are inundated with data from many sources that they cannot ...
Cyberwar Threats: New Security Strategies for Governments [ Source: Tripwire ]
August 2011-
Cyberwar fundamentally changes how government must handle security. Faced with increasingly sophisticated attacks from gangs of cyber criminals and foreign governments probing systems for sensitive data, threats frequently go undetected for days, weeks, and even months. And it's not just financial data being stolen. Terrorists and rogue governments may steal confidential data, including intelligence information, that exposes a country and its citizens to potential harm. Unfortunately, the traditional fortress approach no longer suffices.
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A Practical Guide for Retiring Legacy Applications [ Source: Informatica ]
June 2011-
This paper discusses strategies for retiring legacy applications. Retiring legacy applications can be tricky. Some are reusable. Some need to be retired. How do you tell which is which? Do you retire all the data or just the data required for business needs and regulatory compliance? How do you preserve the business context of the data? How do you secure it? How do you access key information after the application has been retired?
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Preempt IT Security Threats [ Source: ForeScout ]
May 2011- This whitepaper by the Ogren Group examines issues related to endpoint security compliance management. A new generation of network-based compliance management tools is available which can help enterprises obtain real-time compliance information, automate the remediation of security deficiencies, improve security, and save money. Ogren Group evaluates the capabilities of ForeScout CounterACT to meet enterprise needs. This whitepaper includes two case studies of organizations using ForeScout CounterACT and describes the results that these organizations have obtained.