Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!™) is on a Campaign for Code in 2016, in support of developer education. We are blazing new trails as we travel on: for the first time ever, we are headed to Orange County, CA to bring our unique brand of unbiased developer training to Southern California. With our host hotel situated just down the street from Disneyland, developers, software architects, engineers, designers and more can code by day, and visit...

Innovation is on the agenda. Just as banking, retail, and services organizations are leveraging cloud, advanced analytics, user-centered design, and related digital technologies to transform how they interact with their customers, agencies are under pressure to embrace the concept of digital services. However, as agencies are beginning to realize, the vision of digital government often bumps up against a hard reality: Transformation is difficu...

In October 2015, the Office of Management and Budget released its much-anticipated Cybersecurity Implementation Plan (CSIP), a multi-pronged initiative aimed at getting agencies up to speed on cybersecurity. The strategy reflects the dual realities of the cybersecurity challenge: The increasingly diverse and sophisticated nature of today’s cyber threats, and the increasingly complex nature of the federal enterprise to be protected. A str...

Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!™) is on a Campaign for Code in 2016, in support of .NET education. We're taking a swing through our home state, and couldn't be more excited about rallying @ Microsoft Headquarters in beautiful Redmond, WA. From August 8 – 12, developers, software architects, engineers, designers and more will convene for five days of unbiased and cutting-edge education on the Microsoft Platform. Hone your coding mettle...

Federal agencies have only begun to explore the benefits of the cloud. Without a doubt, five years into the federal government’s “Cloud First” policy, cloud is delivering important results—most notably the ability to quickly deploy IT resources and scale up operations as requirements change. But in most agencies, the greater potential for transformation remains largely untapped. With the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Ac...

The use of open source software is pretty much a forgone conclusion in the federal market but its power as a market disruptor is just now beginning to be felt as more agencies adopt a bimodal IT strategy. Register now for this Power Breakfast, where our panelists will discuss the implication of open source and bimodal IT from a technology, policy and business management perspective, including: Customer needs and expectations How this market sh...

Visual Studio Live! is on a Campaign for Code in 2016, in support of .NET education. We’re marching on to Boston in June, bringing this unique brand of education to the birthplace of our democracy. For the first time in a decade, Boston will host four days of practical, unbiased, Developer training from June 13 – 16. Join us as we dig in to the latest features of Visual Studio 2015, ASP.NET, JavaScript, TypeScript, Windows 10 and s...

Visual Studio Live! is on a Campaign for Code in 2016, in support of .NET education. We’re all set to convene in Austin this May, where your code not only counts, it’s crucial! Visual Studio Live! is bringing back its unique brand of practical, unbiased, Developer training to the deep heart of Texas. From May 16 - 19, we’re offering four days of sessions, workshops and networking events – all designed to help you elevat...

For close to a decade the Obama administration has been putting together the components of a system to automate the identification and response to security breaches in government agencies. The move toward security and monitoring as-a-service is based on a consensus that fixed network defense technologies have not lived up to their promise to protect federal networks. Tools are now emerging to identify and block critical threats to agency syste...

Register now to attend the Federal Focus on Cyber Analytics, Compliance, and Business Agility to be held Wednesday, April 27 to learn how agencies are using current technologies to derive actionable information about their operating environments. The program will feature government and industry speakers sharing how they are increasing their agency cyber awareness and what they are doing to apply analytical results to improve performance and me...