Author Archive
Joe Kim
Cybersecurity
The Cybersecurity Framework is helping agencies, but there's room for improvement
IT managers have gotten better at preventing attacks, but they must ensure they can also quickly respond and recover.
Infrastructure
Ghost in the data center: Tips for managing wireless sensor networks
Network monitoring tools can be used to forecast device scalability and threshold alerts, allowing managers to act on the information that sensors are sending out.
Infrastructure
A single path to hybrid IT success
By following a single-path analysis strategy, managers can greatly reduce the challenges associated with managing hybrid IT infrastructures.
Infrastructure
Back to the basics with software-defined data centers
Traditional monitoring and management techniques can help government IT administrators deliver an automated, scalable and highly agile networking environment.
Infrastructure
Hybrid IT and data security musts
The key to an agency's successful cloud or hybrid IT implementation is to understand and maximize its cloud security posture in advance of the move.
Infrastructure
Building a cloud strategy on a solid foundation
With the right network infrastructure, agencies moving to the cloud can tap into better security and greater flexibility for growth.
Infrastructure
5 tips for keeping up with IT change
Government IT pros must now arm themselves with a new set of skills, products, and resources to succeed in the hybrid IT era.
Digital Government
How to control the expanding government network
Network performance and bandwidth monitoring solutions can help government IT pros keep users productive and systems secure.
Infrastructure
Strategies for keeping VM sprawl from taking over your agency
Even with policies to prevent virtual machine sprawl, IT managers should uses an automated approach that employs predictive analysis and reclamation capabilities.
Infrastructure
Databases in the cloud: dark cloud or silver lining?
Concerns over performance, availability and control are keeping databases out of the cloud.
Infrastructure
4 security management strategies for data center consolidation
Organizational flexibility, encryption and automation will help network administrators better manage security as data centers shrink.
Featured eBooks
Digital Government
Strategies for scaling the world’s biggest networks
As the IT environment expands, its monitoring, management and failover systems must scale alongside this growth.
Cybersecurity
How to prepare your network for the unexpected
For most agencies, a combination of security products create a formidable defense.
Infrastructure
Too much of a good thing: monitoring overload
Solutions that neatly aggregate an agency’s preferred metrics deliver better availability, security and performance.
