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House blocks Google-hosted apps, Yahoo Mail over security fears

Reuters: The U.S. House of Representatives' information technology team has blocked the congressional chamber from accessing software applications hosted on a Google cloud service in an attempt to prevent possible hacking campaigns against lawmakers and their staff, according to two congressional sources.

Cloud-Driven Databases Improve Service Quality, Reduce Costs

Most agencies have migrated at least a few applications to cloud services, but progress has been slow, due primarily to internal IT complexities, cybersecurity worries and a reluctance to abandon physical resources. Increasingly, however, agency leaders find that optimizing data management provides a critical first...

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Going Hybrid: How Cloud-Driven Databases Improve Speed and Performance – with Optimal Security
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 2:00pm

The most important asset government agencies have – besides their people – is their data. As agencies move to the cloud, many have focused on maximizing their IT investments to increase database performance and integration, while strengthening their security posture. Increasingly, agency leaders find that...

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Overcoming Aging Infrastructure

Explore the use of IoT sensors to monitor vibrations and better track the safety of bridges and other structures. Using real-time, cloud-based, advanced analytics and IoT sensor data, government executives can measure vibrations that would help federal, state and local organizations more closely monitor aging...

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Public Sector IT Trends and How as-a-Service is Simplifying Government Procurement & IT Management
Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 2:00pm

Gain insights from industry experts in federal, state and local government on the biggest IT trends expected for 2019 and how organizations can better prepare to meet modernization objectives. Learn how the as-a-Service financial model is impacting IT modernization efforts and discover how others have used this model to address budget, performance, capacity and other operational challenges. Explore lessons...

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A Natural Evolution: From Data Center Consolidation to IT Optimization

As federal IT organizations make progress consolidating and modernizing their IT infrastructures, the impact of legacy platforms, technologies and traditional data centers still weighs heavy, along with each agency’s ability to attract and maintain the skill sets and applications needed to meet 21st century requirements. If...

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Growing Government Cyber Intelligence (ebook)

As traditional network perimeters surrounding data centers dissolve, agencies face enormous difficulties fending off attacks using a patchwork of traditional security tools to protect classified or personally identifiable information (PII). Time and again, traditional security practices have proven porous and/or unsustainable. This is why public sector officials...

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