Author Archive
John Moore
Digital Government
How will you manage big (and bigger) data in 2015?
Government IT departments will increasingly turn to data warehouse augmentation tools and tactics in 2015 to address their big data management challenges.
Cybersecurity
Energy recasts EA for cybersecurity
The Department of Energy’s CIO office built an EA toolset to ensure aging servers and software assets don’t become enterprise vulnerabilities.
Infrastructure
Navy discovers a cache of IT savings in the cloud
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command found the path to cost savings by securely moving “low-impact” information systems, including web sites, small networks and data centers, to the cloud.
Infrastructure
Washington state deploys cloud-based ITSM support tool
To help consolidate five departments into one, the Department of Enterprise Services chose an IT Service Management (ITSM) tool that supported a standardized IT support workflow.
Infrastructure
How the Army trims apps before data center migration
The Army is using a multi-step process to rationalize and consolidate hundreds of applications as it embarks on a four-year data center migration project.
Infrastructure
NASA sails to the cloud with AWS, open source, migration
NASA migrated 110 websites and applications to the cloud in a technology overhaul that included using open source tools such as the Drupal content management system and Ubuntu.
Digital Government
What's next for government enterprise mobility
The partnership between Apple and IBM may help overcome traditional barriers to deploying mobile enterprise solutions in the government space: security and long development cycles.
Infrastructure
A closer look at Pennsylvania's cloud infrastructure plan
Pennsylvania awarded Unisys Corp. a cloud infrastructure contract designed to provide the precision usage of the state’s computing resources and a firm economic footing for IT decision-making.
Infrastructure
Agencies set building blocks of the software-defined enterprise
As government agencies experiment with converged infrastructure, they see the outline of the future software defined data center.
Infrastructure
Cloud takes backup role as cities remake data centers
With data centers under renovation, some agencies are using the cloud to meet their disaster recovery and business continuity requirements.
Infrastructure
County mixes data center options with reference architecture
In Oakland County, Mich., a reference architecture approach to upgrading the enterprise helps preserve features of its existing data center while providing flexibility to adopt new services.
Featured eBooks
Infrastructure
With converged IT, agencies rethink the data center
Agencies are exploring new options for reinvesting in physical infrastructure as new options open up to retool the data center and its features to the needs of government.
Infrastructure
For some small towns, public safety means IT consolidation
Pressures on local governments to cut costs means that maintaining emergency and public safety services depends on consolidating or sharing IT and emergency operations centers.
Management
Monmouth County shares new model for public safety systems
The ability to scale systems easily across jurisdictions, eliminating the high cost of maintaining redundant services, makes the case for local public safety IT consolidation.
Infrastructure
As FOIA requests surge, EPA readies e-discovery toolkit
EPA is preparing a set of off-the-shelf tools to help it collect information relevant to litigation, FOIA requests or congressional inquiries.
Digital Government
Big data in Raleigh: Opening up and reaching out
The city of Raleigh, N.C., is reaching out to partner municipalities to maximize its big data potential.
Infrastructure
In Buffalo, big data drives precision 311 'clean sweeps'
Buffalo uses customer service software to create density maps of citizen 311 complaints and orchestrate 'clean sweeps' of two- and three-block areas.
Digital Government
Chicago readies the next-generation big data network
In July Chicago will mount sensors on light poles, the first stage of a big data collection and analysis system that the city plans to open up to other jurisdictions.
Digital Government
DigitalGov Search delivers real-time analytics, better results
The newly launched open source search stack lets GSA’s DigitalGov Search perform real-time analytics and create dashboards to monitor Web search trends.
Infrastructure
Patent Office preps for surge in applications
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will tap multiple contracts to acquire the storage, engineering and virtualization tools it needs to handle a burst of new patent applications it expects.
