Background The Government Customer Service Improvement Act and Executive Order 13571 are among the most recent in a long succession of laws and directives intended to assure quality where citizens with needs touch government. While there has never been more attention focused on the effectiveness of our services, there has also never been a more challenging environment for delivering them. Agencies and organizations struggling with this difficu...

Meet Your 2014 FISMA Requirements: Evolving Continuous Authorization Capabilities and Cybersecurity Calendar Digital Government Institute's popular FISMA Training Seminar will address how to successfully and effectively meet your 2014 FISMA requirements by understanding the FISMA Trends, Rising Needs and Solutions and creating your own management tools. Those who attended DGI FISMA courses in the past three years will find this course evolved...

As volumes of big data grow rapidly, government agencies are looking to leverage federal big data to support their missions and improve overall program outcomes and performance. Government, however, still face issues in adopting a federal big data strategy: bandwidth, storage capacity, retrieval, security, computational power, and trained personnel. The greatest challenge for government organizations in managing big data lies in the ability to...

Analyzing large data sets -- or big data -- has become increasingly complex when needing to identify trends, combat crime, drive efficiency and quality, and reduce fraud and errors. Developing a Big Data plan can deliver many opportunities, but with these opportunities also come challenges, such as how to capture, store, manage, share, analyze, search and protect large amounts of data -- as well as having the right employee skills who can deri...

Federal agencies are being asked to eliminate silos of IT operation and implement consolidated and shared commodity IT functions while meeting cloud computing mandates and initiatives. Join this webcast to learn about an efficient, flexible and affordable cloud architecture comprised of best-of-breed solutions to include next-generation backup and storage products all within your agency’s existing infrastructure. Recognizing cloud comput...

Make the Year-End Buying Season More Productive 930gov is a new type of technology showcase designed to make the year-end buying season more productive for both federal agencies and the government IT contractors who serve them. 930gov facilitates the procurement process by showcasing the technology products purchased during the government's fourth quarter. In addition, exhibitors' booths are all the same size, providing a level-playing-field...

Even though the first mandate for external networks for agencies to comply with IPv6 implementation guidelines has passed, IPv6 adoption among federal agencies will continue to be a priority, and the U.S. government has emerged as a major force in IPv6 adoption. As more private sector enterprises and service providers adopt IPv6, the business cases establishing the benefits of IPv6 adoption (such as business agility, business continuity, and c...

Physical security is as critical as cyber security in the federal government. A mix of cyber security and physical security threats hold the potential for severely impacting your agency’s mission. Physical Security gaps resulting from aging equipment or lack of funding can be potential weaknesses the federal government cannot ignore. To address the challenge, we bring you this Physical and Cyber Security webcast where you will hear from...

Public sector organizations are turning to cloud based services to help increase collaboration while lowering costs. As cloud technology becomes more pervasive, you might be wondering if this is the right approach for your agency. Join us for an in-depth discussion on hosted collaboration solutions to learn more about the advantages and key considerations when looking at cloud based collaboration solutions. Presenter Bobby Hanson, Strategic Pr...

“Connecting Information Management Dots: Centralized Governance of Physical and Electronic Content” As Federal Agencies drive towards deadlines set forth by the Presidential Directive on Managing Government Records, they are faced with balancing the requirements for digital and paper strategies. Agencies are already overwhelmed by the exponential growth of unstructured electronic content from numerous information systems within the...