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4 federal agencies to shut Friday

CNN: Got a question about tax refunds, polluters or subsidized housing? Don't expect an answer this Friday.

That's because four federal government agencies will be closed on Friday, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the...

Special Report

Mobility in State and Local Government: Policies and Trends Concerning BYOD

Regardless whether state and local governments officially sanction the use of personal mobile devices, employees at all levels regularly use personally owned mobile devices to attempt to access government information and complete daily work-related duties.  Driven by IT consumerization, social media, video streaming and a...

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Big Data in the Government Sector: Big Opportunity, Big Challenge….or Both?

The age of big data has officially arrived in government.  Storage systems are near capacity as the amount of information the federal government captures has increased exponentially since 2000, and is projected to double every year going forward.  This new information, effectively captured, managed, and...

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NIST Takes IT Service Management into the Cloud

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) adopted a cloud-based IT service management solution using the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework to improve IT service delivery performance, increase automation of time-consuming tasks and leverage self-service to drive greater efficiency and customer satisfaction. NIST’s goal was...

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Achieving Transparency through Archiving and E-Discovery

As they juggle an array of priorities, from embracing greater mobility to migrating to the cloud, government agencies meanwhile also face a veritable mountain of requests for detailed information tied to legal discovery processes, or as part of investigations, and/or from Freedom of Information Act...