Author Archive
John Zyskowski
John Zyskowski is a senior editor of Federal Computer Week. Follow him on Twitter: @ZyskowskiWriter.
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.
- By John Zyskowski
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.
- By John Zyskowski
Infrastructure
Skip the baby steps: Governments plunge into the cloud
Everyone expects cloud computing to transform government technology practices, but the question is how.
- By John Zyskowski
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.
- By John Zyskowski
Infrastructure
5 favorite BlackBerry apps
These applications can help you be more efficient, improve your communications and relax.
- By John Zyskowski
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.
- By John Zyskowski
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.
- By John Zyskowski
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.
- By John Zyskowski
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.
- By John Zyskowski
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.
- By John Zyskowski
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.
- By John Zyskowski
Digital Government
Data classification: A better way to prioritize stored files
A primer on technology that lets managers sort data by its value
- By John Zyskowski