An estimated one-fourth of government IT will transition to the cloud by 2015. For many agencies email represents the best immediate opportunity in the cloud to realize benefits like costs savings, streamlined management, and increased employee productivity. Unfortunately, it can also bring performance challenges as end users are suddenly relying on applications outside of the agency infrastructure. Join government and industry leaders for a w...

Federal agencies have less than three years to change their data center habits. OMB now says we need to slim from 2,100 to 1,100 data centers by 2015. Are the numbers accurate, are the goals realistic, and importantly, is counting data centers the right way to measure efficiency? Join MeriTalk's Data Center Exchange for the annual Data Center Brainstorm on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The event will bring together...

COMPLIMENTARY CLOUD COMPUTING EXCHANGE (CCX) EVENTS On Wednesday, April 25, join MeriTalk's Cloud Computing Exchange (CCX) for its Quarterly Meeting and join CCX and Senators Brown (R-Mass.) and Carper (D-Del.) for the Cloud Computing Brainstorm event on Capitol Hill. The CCX Quarterly Meeting will take place at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill at 11:30 a.m. and the Cloud Computing Brainstorm event will take place at the Capitol Vi...

Though cloud computing and data center consolidation may be the final destination for government IT, as both an intermediate and alternative step, server virtualization has proven its ability to deliver significant cost reduction – $23 billion by 2015. Reducing IT operating costs is often a primary goal in virtualizing, but, realizing and maximizing cost savings is not always easy – funding, legacy application migration, security,...

Feel like your only shot is a combination cannon off the rail into the center pocket? Does your BlackBerry make you feel like Eddie Felson with two broken thumbs? Here’s your chance to make the shot and come home with the trophy. Federal IT billiards championship. Details below: What: Rack ‘Em Pool Tournament Who: Federal IT professionals When: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 6 p.m. Where: Buffalo Billiards, 1330 19th Street NW, Washing...

On August 29th, MeriTalk announced the results of the Uncle Sam at Your Service: The 2011 Federal Customer Experience Study, underwritten by RightNow. To conduct the study, MeriTalk surveyed 1,000 Americans to identify current customer perceptions and set a benchmark for Federal service improvement. The associated Webcast will address how the Federal government interacts with Americans from a customer service perspective and offer advice from...

Join other Federal IT executives as they share insight and best practices on the real challenges of data center consolidation. Discuss the future of the data center with industry visionaries, analysts, and your peers; and shape how agencies will address the management, security, and performance challenges on the horizon.

The MeriTalk Innovation Nation Forum will focus on the three bellwether topics in Federal IT today – cloud, cyber security, and data center consolidation. In addition, we’ve partnered with Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab to co-locate the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) this year, which will feature a full track on open source. FEATURING KEYNOTE DR. ALAN GREENSPAN, CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (1987-2...

Federal IT professionals need to act quickly to stay ahead of the management, security, and performance crunch likely heading their way. Simply evolving existing processes and technology will not be enough. Consolidation on a large scale requires new ways of building and managing data centers – it's revolutionary. We surveyed 200 Federal IT executives to reveal the key aspects of how people, processes, and technology within the new supe...

Disruptive is good - disruptive technologies and a disruptive approach can enable a leaner, more agile, and more cost-effective government. But how much is too disruptive? Join Federal decision makers and IT innovators for a day focused on Federal data center consolidation. How do we consolidate and optimize to unlock savings? How are we performing against OMB's plans? What's working, what's not, what do we need to do to win, and how do we cha...