Although OMB's Cloud-First mandate requires federal agencies to increase the adoption of cloud computing, building a strong business case for a cloud project is still essential to receiving the investment required for that transformation. If you can't establish quantifiable objectives up front, you may never get the approval required to get your private cloud off the ground and implemented enterprise-wide. Please join us for this live webcast...

Is your agency realizing the promises of cloud computing? Cost savings? Agility? VMware's vCloud Suite is an integrated solution for building and managing a complete cloud infrastructure to meet these needs and deliver results. VMware's vCloud Suite leverages a software-defined datacenter model by pooling industry-standard hardware and running each layer of the datacenter as software-defined services. It creates pools of servers, storage, and...

Save the Date - October 31, 2012 Join us Wednesday, October 31st for the VMware Intelligence Community Classified Forum to hear about VMware's newest solutions from the desktop, to the datacenter, to the cloud. During this event, you'll have the opportunity to: Gain knowledge to accelerate your virtualization and cloud expertise Hear about successes, challenges, and best practices from agencies deploying VMware within the Intelligence communit...

With the demands on government IT to provide non-stop services to citizens, the need for highly reliable recovery from disasters is vital. Yet, traditional disaster recovery solutions are often too expensive and complex, leaving many organizations with inadequate disaster protection. With VMware vCenter Site Recovery manager (SRM), any size organization can achieve reliable protection, with minimum hassle, at the lowest possible cost. In fact,...

Federal agencies have two important questions to resolve regarding IT plans for the next few years. First, how do we continue the virtualization journey to complete their cloud strategy? Second, how can we modernize our applications and operations processes to reduce costs and increase mission agility? VMware vFabric™ Application Director, a core building block in the VMware Active Application management suite, delivers a new approach to...

As federal IT increasingly turns to cloud computing, running legacy applications on diverse operating systems and hardware configurations has become a major challenge to ‘keeping the lights on’, as well as making progress toward implementing new architectures. VMware ThinApp enables applications to be packaged so they run completely isolated from each other and the operating system on end-point devices. Application packages can be...

Education. Collaboration. Networking. San Francisco, Moscone Center, August 26 - 30 Don't miss VMworld 2012 and take advantage of this exceptional opportunity for IT professionals. If you are looking to spend less time and money supporting underlying IT infrastructure and more time on areas that yield business and competitive value, then be sure to join us for... Education.Choose from more than 300 Breakout Sessions and Hands-on Labs covering...

A variety of federal agencies are considering options for enabling employees to do their jobs from devices other than PCs, but can this be done efficiently, securely, and with an easy-to-manage environment? With VMware, you can. Join us to learn how VMware View technology is optimizing Defense Connect Online (DCO) users' performance in virtual environments. Best practices and simple use cases will be covered during this live webcast. Attendee...

As federal IT increasingly turns to cloud computing, running legacy applications on diverse operating systems and hardware configurations has become a major challenge to 'keeping the lights on,' as well as making progress toward implementing new architectures. VMware ThinApp enables applications to be packaged into single executables that run completely isolated from each other and the operating systems on end-point devices. Application packa...

As federal agencies continue or initiate their transitions to cloud computing, all are realizing that virtualizing mission critical applications is necessary to realizing the full benefits of this architecture. Many organizations have taken the first steps toward cloud computing by virtualizing basic IT infrastructure workloads, leaving more complex applications for later in their cloud journey. Agencies that are virtualizing mission critical...