Author Archive
John Zyskowski
Digital Government
The paperless agency: Still just a dream in 2011?
Agencies are getting some help in kicking their expensive and wasteful paper-printing habits.
Infrastructure
For IT shops, the future is data, not devices
The focus on leveraging 'big data' will drive agencies toward buying more pre-integrated IT solutions.
Infrastructure
Skip the baby steps: Governments plunge into the cloud
Everyone expects cloud computing to transform government technology practices, but the question is how.
Digital Government
Agile development efforts at 2 agencies running hot and cold
The government's early agile efforts are well intentioned but miss the mark, reviewers say.
Infrastructure
5 favorite BlackBerry apps
These applications can help you be more efficient, improve your communications and relax.
Infrastructure
How to be a black belt with your BlackBerry
Follow these tips for being more efficient and making the most of your smart phone.
Digital Government
Time to rethink the PC
Desktop PCs have been a blessing and a curse since the day they arrived. Here’s how to make living with them a little easier.
Digital Government
Thumb drives are too often the victims of convenience
USB flash drives can be a data security nightmare. Here are some ways to fix the problem.
Digital Government
Storage firm boosts its open-source credentials
Coraid's EtherDrive storage appliances now work with EtherBoot, popular open-source software that lets users boot diskless Linux servers from software loaded on remote disks and accessed across a network.
Digital Government
NetApp enters large-capacity storage market
By John Zyskowski Government storage managers shopping for very large capacity disk systems now have a new option to weigh from a company that, although a fresh face in this part of the market, is hardly a newcomer on the storage scene.
Digital Government
BlueCat offers help with network chores
The Proteus appliance is designed to streamline and centralize many time-consuming but vital network maintenance tasks.
Featured eBooks
Digital Government
Data classification: A better way to prioritize stored files
A primer on technology that lets managers sort data by its value
