The ATARC Federal Cloud & Data Center Summit will be held on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center in Washington, D.C. This educational, one-day symposium examined the Cloud tools and techniques being used by the Federal Government to provide agencies with greater efficiency, open soure solutions and cost savings. The event will also feature the MITRE-ATARC Cloud Collaboration Symposium, where subject matter e...

Cloud is the linchpin of the Trump administration’s strategy to modernize federal IT. In its recent “Report to the White House on IT Modernization,” the American Technology Council calls for agencies to “maximize secure use of cloud computing.”However, the report also acknowledges that despite recognizing its value, agencies have encountered numerous obstacles to cloud adoption. The task now is to identify techno...

Throughout government, IT leaders are scrambling to secure existing systems against a rapidly growing array of known risks, while also planning for future systems that must guard against threats that have yet to be imagined. But daily operations don’t slow down for added requirements and evolving issues; many IT departments are so consumed with today’s needs that they struggle to plan for tomorrow. That’s where intelligent au...

As much as agency IT leaders know they need to make the cloud a core component of their IT infrastructure, they also know that they need to address long-standing concerns about the security of the cloud. The FedRAMP program, of course, is an important part of any agency’s cloud security strategy, and the program has evolved to address emerging requirements for higher-level security requirements—but it is only part of the story. Age...

Government agencies are looking for ways to decrease their costs and deploy systems more quickly. Luckily, cloud computing can enable them to commit fewer resources to day-to-day tasks like maintenance, so they can focus on more important things, like improving services and increasing innovation. While there are still some challenges, there are several benefits agencies can recognize by moving data and software into a cloud environment. Join u...

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) team and the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) will host a DCOI Technology Resources Summit on November 20, 2017 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at GSA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.Margie Graves, Acting U.S. Chief Information Officer, will open the event with a Visionary Keynote, and there will be three panel discussions that focus on data cen...

Citizens today are more connected that ever before; increasingly expecting anytime, anywhere access to government services and information – via online, mobile and/or social. To continue to best serve and engage ever-connected citizens, government organizations and their industry partners must deliver innovative apps and mobile services that are highly secure and provide a user-friendly experience. With these opportunities in mind, be su...

Federal agencies cannot afford to wait to bring innovation to their operations. Traditional approaches to managing operations and delivering services have left agencies hamstrung, with too much of their budgets tied up in maintaining legacy systems that lack the flexibility to adapt to ever changing requirements and citizen expectations. What if technology was not an inhibitor? Innovation does not require waiting on modernization. A new genera...

Hybrid cloud is critical to government IT transformation, which means storing data on-premises and in the cloud. Keeping up with ever-changing IT environments presents myriad challenges for organizations. Please register today and join us for the Microsoft Azure Government DC Meetup, Managing the Changing Hybrid Cloud Environment in Gov, on Wed., May 31, from 6 - 8:30 p.m., at 1776. We are excited to feature Brian Harrison, cloud solution arch...

Join us for this FREE morning event at the Ritz Carlton, Tysons Corner where defense contractors, systems integrators and members of the Defense Industrial Base will gather to hear insights into technologies and strategies that can help deliver secure commercial cloud solutions. Learn how to exceed customer’s cloud security requirements and get a competitive edge in this growing market. Defense organizations are looking for business part...