Data analytics: a perfect investment for tight budgets
Analysis projects can pay off in improved agency performance, proactive management and a better handle on day-to-day operations.
3 easy ways to cool data centers
Even if you can't dip your servers in oil or move them outside, there are practical, inexpensive methods you can use to take the heat off.
Amazon making virtual private clouds standard for customers
AWS is making access automatic for new users; existing customers, including many in the public sector, will have to start a new account or launch services in a new region.
Agencies can learn from eBay data center dashboard
The company's Digital Service Efficiency can measure energy use per auction, carbon dioxide per transaction and other factors that could be used to increase efficiency.
Million-message mailboxes complicate EPA's move to Office 365
When moving to Office 365, EPA discovered some Lotus Notes mailboxes with more than a million objects -- and 90T in all in the system -- prompting a new approach to the transition.
The enemy of risk management starts with a C (and it's not China)
Complexity is the enemy of security, says NIST's FISMA lead Ron Ross, and the cloud can help simplify networks.
The stuff of world's largest fiber optic LAN: Sandia's network by the numbers
Sandia National Laboratories' network links 265 buildings and 13,000 ports, while saving space, energy and money.
New tools help bring Hadoop into the enterprise
Data Direct Networks, Intel and Red Hat release new products to further simplify management and performance of the open-source, big data framework while improving security.
FEMA seeks to make emergency data available in real time
The agency is looking for a cloud environment that will allow access to critical geospatial data in real-time during emergencies.
Texas readies Office 365 for mission-critical police, health care data
As Texas officials move 100,000 state employees to the cloud, Microsoft is working with the state to ensure that its system meets stringent criminal justice and health-care privacy regulations.
Illinois prisons escape mainframe, move to CRM
The state's Department of Corrections moves from a 1980s mainframe system to cloud-based Microsoft Offender 360 for managing inmates and parolees statewide.
Air Force project could 'transform' supercomputing
Virginia Tech team plans multidisciplinary approach to low-power computing in simulating tiny unmanned aircraft.
5 steps to a secure, multitenant private cloud
As agencies move toward consolidated, unified data centers and private clouds, Cisco offers an outline on how to get there.
Data center of the future: converged infrastructure
The move to this next-generation, automated data center is a multiyear endeavor that started with virtualization and the concept of unified computing.
Cloud broker makes it easier to control shadow IT
Gravitant's cloudMatrix offers continuous cloud asset discovery and sync capabilities to help agencies find unauthorized IT resources.
Section 508 compliance doesn't get lost in the cloud
The move to cloud services and mobile access hasn't changed agencies' focus on ensuring access for people with disabilities.
FedRAMP is proving to be a tough test for cloud providers
Some cloud providers struggle to meet requirements such as multi-factor authentication, FIPS 140-2 compliance and providing a complete boundary definition, GSA's Kathy Conrad says.
Amazon sets up e-notification for cloud-based database service
Amazon Web Services offers to notify managers when key maintenance events occur in new cloud-based relational database system.
Microsoft's data center cooling a breath of fresh air
The company's roofless data center in Virginia requires a lot less power and water to keep servers running smoothly. Should agencies follow suit?
After year of disillusionment, agencies should get clear on cloud realities
After discovering that the technology was more complex than they were led to believe, government agencies will become more sophisticated about using the cloud.
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