At today’s rate of growth, the size of the digital universe in 2025 will be 176 zettabytes of information. To put that in perspective, a single zettabyte is enough to hold 250 billion DVDs. All of it could have some relevance to national security. The Defense Department and Intelligence Community will be in charge of managing an exponentially growing amount of outside data, along with an exploding volume of internal data from soldiers in...

Four years after top officials within the intelligence community first gathered to formulate a new approach to handling technology within its 17 component agencies, the resulting plan’s foundation has been laid and agencies are off and running. The Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE) is based on moving the IC agencies toward shared services.IC ITE initiative has focused and accelerated bureaucracy to achieve...

The push for innovation has made our world more interconnected than ever. IT advancements in cloud, IoT and mobility have forced interdependency among federal agencies and reliance on various outside vendors and contractors to enhance productivity and ensure efficiency. With innovation comes vulnerability, such as cyber breaches and compromised information - so how can federal agencies stay technologically progressive, but still remain secure?...

The cyber threat landscape facing Government is increasingly sophisticated and heterogeneous. The new threat environment requires a new defensive approach that will apply speed, agility, precision and scale to the problem. This new approach must automatically integrate threat intelligence, industry best practices, and emerging cyber technology to deliver rapid threat detection, analysis and response. The 3rd annual FireEye Government Forum wil...

Join us on April 7th for the 27th Annual Federal 100 Awards Gala at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC, as we recognize 100 government and industry leaders who have played pivotal roles in the federal government IT community. Professionals from government, industry and academia will be honored for going above and beyond to make a real difference in the way technology was bought, managed and used in the federal IT community. This elegant bl...

Event Postponed For the Defense Department, the future is about convergence—bringing the military services and coalition partners together on the same networking and communications platform, analyzing and layering data from multiple sources and making it accessible via the cloud, and seamlessly integrating cyber and kinetic operations. Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s public/private innovation initiative also promotes collaboration a...

Federal IT leaders know the benefits cloud computing can provide, from enabling innovation and faster deployment of application to more available, reliable, scalable and flexible operations. Yet despite understanding these benefits and federal mandates that strongly urge the use of cloud computing whenever possible, many agencies aren’t nearly as invested in the cloud as they want to be. Indeed, according to an annual survey of senior fe...

Register for the Washington Technology Department of Commerce Industry Day event where we'll hear from top decision makers from various Commerce Department bureaus and subagencies, who will share information on their mission, their organizations and their particular IT priorities. This event will explore the following topics: Insight into technology and IT acquisition needs Overview of small business programs and what current business environm...

In its fifth year, the 2016 Cloudera Government Forum will bring together public and private sector practitioners to discuss the state of data analytics and share case studies of how agencies are leveraging their data to enable improved decision-making. Spend a day discovering how your organization can evolve with transformative technologies powered by Apache Hadoop and results-driven data management and analysis.

Visual Studio Live! is on a Campaign for Code in 2016, in support of .NET education. First up on the campaign trail? Fabulous Las Vegas, where developers, software architects, engineers, designers and more will convene for five days of unbiased and cutting-edge education on the Microsoft Platform. Sharpen your skills in Visual Studio, ASP.NET, JavaScript, HTML5, Mobile, Database Analytics, and so much more. Code with .NET authorities, debate i...