Agencies can reap real benefits from virtual infrastructures
U.S. Forces' response to the 2011 Japan earthquake showed how virtual desktop infrastructures can deploy new endpoints quickly, easily and securely.
Huddle's game plan for government
U.K.-based Huddle's secure cloud collaboration platform, already in use a several U.S. agencies, is billed as an alternative to Microsoft's SharePoint.
Agencies can't count the savings in consolidation push
Agencies are seeing benefits from consolidation, though most can't quantify cost savings, according to a MeriTalk survey. And 56 percent of IT pros grade agencies' efforts at "C" or below.
Social network analysis, predictive coding enlisted to fight fraud
New analytic technologies will help agencies and investigators look deeper into behavioral patterns to combat some of the more sophisticated fraud schemes on the horizon.
Appian BPM gets more social and mobile
Appian Records lets users browse, update and take action on data from any enterprise system through a single social interface. Appian SAIL lets designers push BPM apps to mobile devices.
Ohio's budget office opens up with cloud-based BPM tool
The Office of Budget and Management has deployed Appian’s cloud-based BPM with mobile and social capabilities to improve the coordination of work across teams, departments and systems.
QTS opens secure cloud test lab for government
Facility in Richmond, Va., will speed up development and deployment of secure cloud computing services
Storage problems are holding back app virtualization, survey finds
Storage costs, performance issues and integration difficulties with flash and solid state drives are hampering the virtualization of critical apps, according to DataCore survey.
Storage facility 220 feet underground gives agencies another data center option
Iron Mountain offers a secure, multitenant underground facility with portfolio services for data migration, networking, tape handling and recycling of data center assets.
How VA put 13 systems into one view at call centers
The agency has unified 13 different systems into one view, making it easier for agents to quickly retrieve benefits and claims information.
How to use Excel for on-the-spot analytics
New add-ons for the spreadsheet program can combine Census, weather and demographic data to aid evacuations in an emergency.
In the near future, 'cloud computing' will just be 'computing'
Agency managers will assume that services are deployed in some type of cloud; the emphasis will be on extracting value from data, CIOs say.
How video analytics helps reconstruct Boston Marathon bombings
Analyzing terabytes of footage from events such as the Boston Marathon bombings is still a largely manual task, but video analytics tools can save investigators a lot of time.
Tools help agencies boost recruiting via social media
NGA.NET's SocialSmashed and Social Apply helps agencies recruit young workers via platforms they're familiar with.
Two states overhaul IT to boost social services
Arkansas and South Carolina scrap older systems for cloud-based technologies and big data analytic software.
NGA, geospatial community plan a clear picture of major disasters
A global consortium builds a cloud infrastructure to demonstrate how multinational organizations can share geospatial information after major disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Service lets agencies beam big data to and from Amazon cloud
Attunity's CloudBeam is a software-as-a service platform integrated with AWS S3, providing file replication and synchronization of files as well as managed file transfer service.
Police tap layman-friendly analytics to track gang activity
A mid-Atlantic city adopts uReveal, which lets analysts fuse and extract knowledge from any type of data, structured or unstructured.
Police tap layman-friendly analytics to track gang activity
A mid-Atlantic city adopts uReveal, which lets analysts fuse and extract knowledge from any type of data, structured or unstructured.
Free cloud storage is tempting, but is the price too high?
The services have obvious appeal to employees, but have a history of breaches. Pennsylvania's CISO, for one, steers agencies to in-house or enterprise storage services.
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