Benefits Every major public or private action that may have a significant effect on the environment and which needs a Federal permit, funding, or other authorization must go through the NEPA process. The White House Council on Environmental Quality has issued guidance on both mitigation and making the NEPA process more efficient. The former often allows otherwise problematic projects to proceed by addressing and avoiding or alleviating their e...

Unlike many vendors whose solutions lock agencies into proprietary virtualization and cloud stacks, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 is built on open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) eliminating vendor lock-in. It offers a superior balance of enterprise management features, performance, and scalability for Linux and Windows workloads, and comes with military-grade, kernel-level security, at a fraction of the cost. Join Red Hat a...

Benefits This live audio conference - conducted by one of the key contributors to the U.S. EPA's Handbook for Developing Watershed Plans to Restore and Protect Our Waters - will provide a broad overview of the watershed planning approach being used by federal and state agencies nationwide. Watershed plans address all aspects of protecting and restoring rivers, lakes, streams, wetlands, and coastal waters. They are used by drinking water utilit...

Join Adobe, Carahsoft and MEI for one-hour eSeminars on the Creative Suite products featuring Adobe Solutions Experts to discover how government agencies are leveraging Adobe Creative Suite, as well as new features of CS6!Click on the titles below for more information on each session and speaker. Part 1: Photoshop - August 9, 2012, 2pm EasternTopic: What’s New in Photoshop CS6Featured Speaker: Lisa Niday is an Adobe certified expert in...

Apache Hadoop is a software framework that supports data intensive distributed applications under a free-to-use license. Hadoop has been the driving force behind the Big Data industry. It enables applications to work over massive quantities of data with built-in features enabling enhanced reliability, scalability, and functionality over old style data tools. If your legacy data storage methods are costly, or if you need to access your data fa...

A variety of federal agencies are considering options for enabling employees to do their jobs from devices other than PCs, but can this be done efficiently, securely, and with an easy-to-manage environment? With VMware, you can. Join us to learn how VMware View technology is optimizing Defense Connect Online (DCO) users' performance in virtual environments. Best practices and simple use cases will be covered during this live webcast. Attendee...

The explosion of information in enterprise data stores and online has created a target-rich environment for hackers, thieves, and malicious insiders. As the risks of data loss and inadvertent disclosure have grown, so have the costs. Hacker attacks have compromised technology firms, credit-card processors, and defense contractors; insider exploits have brought down major banks; and the financial, regulatory, and legal impacts are growing by l...

Apple’s growing leadership in the smart phone and tablet industry has helped fuel the rapid BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) program adoption among enterprise and government organizations. Program adoption rates continue to outpace the acceptable use policies and incident response tactics needed to safely and securely incorporate these devices into a BYOD environment. Additionally, Apple iOS device operating system architecture and encrypti...

Join Adobe, Carahsoft and MEI for one-hour eSeminars on the Creative Suite products featuring Adobe Solutions Experts to discover how government agencies are leveraging Adobe Creative Suite, as well as new features of CS6!Click on the titles below for more information on each session and speaker. Part 1: Photoshop - August 9, 2012, 2pm EasternTopic: What’s New in Photoshop CS6Featured Speaker: Lisa Niday is an Adobe certified expert in...

Benefits With the ever increasing regulation of environmental impacts including that of stormwater runoff, it is important for engineers, architects, planners, property managers, real estate developers, construction contractors, environmental professionals, and public works and regulatory agencies to understand the potential application of underground stormwater management (SWM) best management practices (BMPs). Stormwater management is requir...