The Administration has issued a directive requiring all U.S. government agencies to upgrade their public-facing Web sites and services to support IPv6 by September 30, 2012. There have been plenty of starts and stops in implementing this next generation Internet address operation. And with this deadline quickly approaching, many federal agencies are still looking for guidance on what to do, how quickly to do it, and the business case for doin...

With Federal agencies directed by OMB to have one cloud solution in place by December 2011 and up to three by June 2012, cloud-based services are now included in technology plans, and cloud-adoption within the federal government is moving forward. Those responsible for developing and implementing these solutions continue to struggle with understanding the variety of models available and choosing the best technologies, configurations, service a...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has identified IPv6 as a critical technology necessary to achieve many of the Administration’s aggressive IT modernization goals such as Cloud Computing, National Broadband Deployment, and SmartGrid. In addition, with the depletion of the remaining IPv4 address spaces in under a year; the transition to IPv6 has also become a continuity of operations issues that must be met to ensure continued us...

Many agencies are discovering that existing data centers simply cannot provide the energy, cooling and equipment density required to support evolving needs. In addition, building new data centers is a lengthy, capital-intensive process, with additional capacity not available until years after the start of construction. Containerized Data Center (CDC) Solutions can provide a fast, flexible way to expand, complement or even replace traditional...

The Administration recently issued an Executive Order directing federal agencies to create new technology-based plans to deliver services better, faster and at a lower cost to the public. During this free webcast, members of the Government Contact Center Council (G3C) will address the Order’s required Customer Service Plan and how their agency will accomplish the specific actions outlined in the memo, including: A signature initiative to...

Establishing a foundation for data governance has never been more critical as federal agencies face more data center consolidation pressures. Many agencies are following the IT trend of breaking their problems into smaller pieces to make a complex problem more solvable. Your agency may be planning to send “some data” and “some applications” to the cloud, but do you have a methodology for optimizing your data once it...

Don’t be caught with your guard down, your networks open to attack. Today’s threat environment is constantly evolving and maturing in levels of sophistication and capabilities. The old ways of doing things are no longer enough. Relying solely on the organization ‘s perimeter to detect and prevent these threats is full of holes. Security Operations must mature along with the threat and leverage the internal network as a sensor...

The federal government continues to face significant challenges in protecting the nation’s cyber-reliant critical infrastructure and federal information systems, and the cyber security news is just getting worse: The number of incidents reported by federal agencies to the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team increased from 5,503 incidents in fiscal 2006 to 41,776 incidents in fiscal 2010. And according to a new report from the Office...

EA Now More Than Ever Enterprise Architecture has become one of the pillars of the federal IT world to help make operations run smoothly, seamless and easy to maneuver. It's no longer an option but a necessity for every federal agency. Because no matter what technology is touted, no matter what delivery mechanisms are implemented, and no matter how service oriented and agile the applications are -- especially cloud-based or SAAS environments -...

With the overwhelming growth of digital information, from documents to e-mails to instant messaging and even Twitter – the scope of electronic records management has expanded exponentially and is an increasingly critical issue for government agencies, particularly as it relates to being able to provide secure storage, access, and retrieval of this information. And agencies are constantly challenged with managing new forms of Electronical...