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The U.S. government engaged the help of Partners for Supply Chain Management (PFSCM), a consortium of 12 companies and humanitarian organizations, to purchase and distribute AIDS medications to many of the countries targeted by PEPFAR. UPS serves as the project’s lead logistics provider — a role that has not only significantly improved access to life extending medications, but has helped to save the U.S. government more than $100 million in logistics costs.

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Today, law enforcement faces greater challenges than ever before. In addition to promoting public safety and combating crime and gang violence, your agency has the added burden of managing limited resources in an economic down turn while at the same time delivering the highest level of safety and security.

Innovative information technologies are playing a key role in improving law enforcement’s ability to anticipate events and respond appropriately. Predictive analytics is one of those technologies. By using predictive analytics, you can anticipate what types of intervention will be needed, and where. Plan, rather than react. And make the best use of your resources.

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Many public safety agencies need to do more with less and link spending to outcomes.  The global trends highlighted in this report show the increasing challenges and issues confronting public safety agencies.  This white paper describes how developing competencies in five key area can help public safety agencies more effectively do their jobs in the face of extremely important and difficult sets of issues.

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Crime prediction and prevention analytics from IBM helps agencies make the best use of the people and information at hand to monitor, measure and predict crime and crime trends.  Analysis of police data provides insight that lets officers track criminal activities, predict the likelihood of incidents, effectively deploy resources and solve cases faster.

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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 proliferation of applications, mobile device use is booming nationwide.

To deal with the increasing use of personal mobile devices for work, state and local government networks must use a combination of technology, policy and organization-wide strategy to protect government information resources.  Download this i360Gov report to learn more.

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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 analyzed, has the power to enhance profoundly the effectiveness of government.  Yet government CIOs and their staffs must rise to the big data challenge at a time when IT budgets are flat or shrinking, data centers are being consolidated, and new skills are required to manage, analyze and apply these massive amounts of data.

Download this i360Gov special report for an overview of the big data landscape, a look at current big data initiatives in government, and actionable analysis and best-practice advice that you can apply to your agency’s big data strategy.

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When CENTCOM replaced an aging and cumbersome virtualized desktop environment with VMware View, it achieved improved manageability, more efficient allocation of storage hardware, and greater efficiency and usability—including a reduction in user login times from 3-5 minutes to 35 seconds.

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A flood of employee-owned mobile devices, combined with a White House-mandated mobility initiative is driving federal, state and local government organizations to figure out how they can securely ride the growing post-PC wave of end-user computing.  As market researchers such as IDC estimate, by 2015, more U.S. Internet users will access the Internet through mobile devices than through PCs or other wireline devices. Learning how to adapt to a post-PC world order will require government organizations to find new ways to securely embrace mobility.

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Desktop virtualization is a strategic initiative for budget-conscious state and local governments to optimize their IT investments. Many state and local governments turn to desktop virtualization following successful server virtualization projects; by streamlining their datacenters and reducing the number of servers, state and local governments have realized cost savings in hardware and maintenance and reductions in electricity, heating, and cooling needs.

Desktop virtualization offers many of these same benefits: reduced costs, improved operational efficiency, and a better end-user experience, all of which ultimately result in improved services for citizens.

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Human lives depend on the multilevel secure (MLS) desktops used in government agencies. Yet today’s government MLS systems are not always as efficient as they could be. They typically consist of complex webs of networks and devices running multiple operating systems and applications over a host of network connections. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) provides a compelling solution to many of these challenges. This paper summarizes the challenges of traditional MLS desktop solutions, recaps the technologies that make VDI a viable option, and highlights the capabilities of VMware View and the added value of products from ClearCube and RTCS.

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In August 2012, VMware commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by efficiently managing their virtual desktop infrastructure from a single console using VMware View. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of VMware View on their organizations. This study illustrates the financial impact of VMware View for a specific VMware customer, a United States Army training center that provides classroom-based technical training to support the US Army’s military operations.

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Information Technology as a “service” has moved from concept to reality. Early adopters have already deployed major solutions, and it has become a standard objective for mainstream Information Technology (IT) architects and planners. HP has adopted the term “Converged Infrastructure” to describe how HP products and services can address this approach. This Reference Architecture guide provides a business and technical view of the adoption process.

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What if cities could improve services for their citizens without increasing costs? Cities are complex organizations, with numerous departments in charge of a wide range of essential functions, from water management to public safety. Collaboration across those groups is critical for addressing crises, successfully completing projects and enhancing the efficiency of daily operations.

IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities offers a centralized, real-time collaborative environment for planning, organizing, monitoring and sharing information across city departments and agencies. It processes data feeds and event information from individual departments and then presents that information in a citywide view. In the event of a large-scale emergency, an official at a disaster site can assess the situation and send a report to the operations room via a web-based portal while simultaneously learning that more rescue personnel are on the way. Meanwhile, agency representatives can view report details together, begin communicating instantly and start developing a recovery plan. Collaboration capabilities help accelerate resolution of problems, reduce the impact of crises and minimize the resources needed for getting work done.  Download this complimentary whitepaper to learn more.

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As your IT business delivery model transforms from a static physical deployment to consolidated virtual workloads to on-demand service delivery, Symantec virtualization solutions can help you to achieve essential high levels of performance, availability, and trust you need.

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• Visibility and control of virtual applications
• Improved storage I/O performance and availability
• Reduced application impact from backup and recovery operations
• High-performance security and compliance you can trust

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The past few years have seen virtualization rapidly move into the mainstream of the data center.  Today, virtualization is often the defacto standard in the data center for the deployment of any application or service.  This includes important operational or business systems that are the life blood of the organization.

For mission critical systems, customers necessarily demand a broader level of services than is common among the test and development environments where virtualization often gains its foothold in the data center.  It goes almost without saying that topmost in customer's minds are issues of availability.

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This white paper proposes an approach to building resilient private clouds in an efficient and cost-effective manner. This idealized architecture incorporates solutions that address cloud server and storage needs and reconciles them with the realities of the data center such as heterogeneity and existing infrastructure. This paper also discusses how these solutions help data centers achieve the operational flexibility of a cloud-like model without compromising the service-level agreement (SLA) requirements.

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This white paper describes the challenges that government agencies face in stemming massive financial losses resulting from improper payments, high error rates, waste, fraud, and abuse and meeting the increasing need for more government transparency and accountability. It explains how the Informatica® solution for improper payments can help government agencies:

• Reduce improper payments
• Eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse
• Provide accurate reporting and compliance information
• Increase transparency and improve accountability and fiscal stewardship, preserving program integrity

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According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), cash-strapped state and local governments spend more than $10 billion per year on energy to provide public services and meet constituent needs.  To help lower these costs and reduce environmental impact, the EPA recommends governments consider implementing energy efficient policies.

Government Technology recently conducted a survey to assess government adoption of environmental policies in IT operations. Overall, results indicated that agencies are either not taking advantage of many energy-efficient policies, or they are unaware if such a policy exists. Forty-three percent of respondents did not know if their agency had conducted an environmental review of IT operations and 66 percent weren’t sure how much of their agency’s budget is allocated to support energy-efficient, green IT practices.  Download now to see all of the results from this survey.  You can also learn more by clicking here.

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There are many options, models, opinions, and approaches when it comes to cloud computing, so it is no surprise that the market has become extremely crowded and confused. Government, in particular, has much to consider. With shrinking budgets, competing mandates, and the demand to meet citizen needs, where does cloud computing fit into the equation? How can cloud services help, and what can government do to begin transitioning to a cloud-computing model?

This white paper provides a practical roadmap that government agencies can use to move toward a cloud-services approach. The paper gives special focus to some of the challenges that senior IT managers and CIOs face as they consider the benefits of cloud computing. By transitioning to a cloud-based IT strategy, governments will fundamentally change the way IT services are delivered and how they are consumed, while at the same time realizing tangible operational and financial benefits.  Download the complimentary white paper now.  You can also click here to learn more.

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Delivering smarter digital government with fewer resources requires innovation and discipline. Public sector technology must drive solutions that modernize infrastructure, expand opportunities and capacity for citizen self-service, and empower the new everywhere workplace. These innovations must also help state and local agencies reduce long-term TCO , improve information security, and better prepare for the challenges of tomorrow.  Download this complimentary whitepaper to learn more.  You can also learn more here.

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In municipalities, counties and state agencies, IT leaders are seeking ways to improve service delivery to meet diverse population needs while lowering costs.  In response to these increasing pressures, state and local government IT leaders are looking to cloud computing as the most successful approach to:

• Consolidate existing datacenters
• Drive down costs while providing more citizens with access to more services
• Keep data and applications secure and available
• Protect privacy and sensitive information
• Support the proliferation of end-user devices
• Maintain and improve service-level agreements (SLAs)

When agencies begin their journey to the cloud with virtualization—an IT transformation starting point that preserves existing investments—they realize significant agility, cost and security benefits.  Download this complimentary whitepaper to learn more.

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This white paper describes the components of a successful data center consolidation strategy for agencies at all levels of government. It introduces the Data Center Consolidation Maturity Model, based on lean integration principles, that guides IT organizations in the development of a data center consolidation strategy that results in cost savings, efficiency gains, and enhanced security. It then explains how the Informatica® Platform serves as the ideal technology foundation for creating and executing a comprehensive data center consolidation strategy—one that reduces costs, boosts operational efficiency, and improves a government agency’s security posture.

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Public safety organizations around the world are facing complex new threats.  Advances in information and communications technologies are enabling agencies and personnel to meet these challenges by helping them to better identify the signs of crime patterns, predict when and where crimes may happen, and take proactive steps to prevent them. Smarter Public Safety is an example of this approach, which
applies advanced information management and optimization techniques; intelligence processing; and integrated reporting, command, and collaboration methods to fighting crime. Forward-thinking urban police forces and national safety agencies are beginning to use Smarter Public Safety and are gaining immediate benefits from less crime, and longer-term value of being better able to ensure public order and new tools to address national security.  Download this complimentary whitepaper to learn more.

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This complimentary ebook, Government Analytics For Dummies, looks at how analytics solutions are providing government agencies with insights into decision-quality information — insights that help them stay ahead of trends and risks, manage budgets more effectively for the greatest returns, and predict outcomes to drive effectiveness and efficiencies.

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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 to renovate prior IT service management tools, which has led other agencies, including the Department of Energy’s HQ, the International Trade Administration, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, National Institutes of Health, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement to follow NIST’s lead in researching, investing in a ServiceNow cloud ITSM platform.

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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 (FOIA) requests, which are increasingly used as an early form of discovery in potential legal actions.

Due to federal regulatory requirements, government entities of all kinds are mandated to identify, locate, collect, process, analyze and produce electronically stored information (ESI) in response to those requests.

This i360Gov special report take an in-depth look at these issues, and provides information regarding the primary benefits of e-discovery tools along with e-discovery best practices.  Included are case studies featuring the Department of Justice and NOAA.

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Linux is one of two operating systems that rode the x86 server market over the past decade and established itself as a mainstream solution for supporting deployments of business-oriented application workloads. This upward progression has led Linux to its current role as a platform capable of supporting business-critical workloads on a broad variety of hardware architectures.

This IDC whitepaper takes a look at the growth of Linux as a server operating system and how deployment form factors have changed over time. Today, commercial Linux has become a key platform across many workloads. This paper considers both workload data and the ecosystem that has grown up to support the opportunity for Linux deployments, including application software, application development and deployment software, and infrastructure software.

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A key environmental factor shaping storage decisions today is the turbulent global economy. With recession just behind us, and growth stalled in many sectors, IT executives continue to be asked to do even more with even fewer resources.

Exploring the economic advantages of scale-out storage is the focus of this paper. After briefly defining scale-out storage we discuss, in turn, the capital, operational and strategic advantages of scale-out storage solutions.

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Hybrid Cloud Storage is emerging as the newest form of storage architecture on the market, so how do agencies deal with the high storage growth? In January 2012 Aberdeen surveyed 106 various organizations across sectors and found that the demand for storage is growing by 35% year over year.  This report looks at each component of Hybrid Cloud Storage as users of this new technology will be able to locate their data, on-premise with Scale-out NAS or in the Public Cloud.

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Over the past ten years, enterprises have seen enormous gains in scalability, flexibility, and affordability as they migrated from proprietary, monolithic server architectures to architectures that are virtualized, open source, standardized, and commoditized.  

Unfortunately, storage has not kept pace with computing, but the GlusterFS file system was created to address this gap.  This whitepaper discusses some of the unique technical aspects of the Red Hat Storage architecture, speaking to those aspects of the system that are designed to provide linear scale-out of both performance and capacity without sacrificing resiliency.

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As government agencies work to comply with emerging federal and state/local government mobility mandates designed to simplify and centralize the management of mobile devices, they are faced with many questions, challenges and pitfalls to avoid.

This new i360Gov special report includes interviews with top government subject-matter-experts from federal as well as state/local government, case studies, and insider tips and advice on how to provide your organization’s mobile workforce with remote access to government resources, at any time, from any location, using any type of smartphone, tablet or other mobile device.

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In a currently tight budgetary climate, government organizations are working to function as cost-effectively as possible. Agencies also face regulatory mandates for energy efficiency and data center consolidation that are driving them to consolidate data centers, servers, applications and services, to reduce costs.  IT managers are moving to commodity x86-based servers to replace legacy RISC servers.

In the enterprise computing arena, of the server operating sytems that were prevalent a decade ago, only two are likely to dominate by 2015 - - Linux and Microsoft Windows, according to research from IDC.

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Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization is a complete virtualization management solution for server and desktop virtualization, and the first enterprise-ready, fully open source virtualization platform. This guide reviews the major features of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.

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Nowhere is the intersection of operational data and storage technology more dramatic than on the battlefield. While commercial enterprises rightly claim that information is the key to business success, in war fighting it can literally be the difference between mission accomplishment or failure.

The military requires transportable data storage that has been optimized for deployment in the field—where challenging conditions are the norm. This means compact, light weight, and highly available storage that requires little training and is easy to use even for those with only basic technical skills. It needs to be scalable, cloud-ready, and designed to maximize virtual environments. Finally, access to data has to be fast, secure, and reliable. Back-up windows are short. And bandwidth is limited.

Download this complimentary whitepaper to learn how EMC storage solutions for expeditionary operations and tactical deployment redefine networked storage for military, delivering an unequaled combination of features, reliability, simplicity, and efficiency.

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On the march toward virtualization, it makes little sense to charge ahead without a map.

Still, the pressure is on federal IT managers to take up a brisk pace. In addition to budget constraints, IT leaders face multiple mandates to consolidate datacenter, adopt cloud technologies, and comply with an evolving Shared First policy, which calls for agencies to pool existing IT resources rather than invent systems from scratch.

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Agency business today is all about efficiency — and upgrading to Symantec Backup Exec™ 2012 can help save you time and money. You don’t need multiple products to protect the various physical server, VMware®, or Microsoft Hyper-V® aspects of your environment. You don’t need multiple applications to ensure bare-metal disaster recovery of your servers. With Backup Exec 2012, you can protect your entire infrastructure—physical servers, virtual, and applications—with a single integrated backup and disaster recovery solution.  And to make it even easier, Backup Exec 2012 has a new, intuitive interface that makes it quick and efficient to set up, monitor, and perform backup operations, from simple single-server environments to intricate IT data centers.

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A desire to increase productivity, improve contact within agencies, along with enhancing the flexibility of working conditions, were cited by government executives as the three most compelling reasons to implement greater use of mobile devices, according to the results of a newly published i360Gov survey.

In an effort to track the growing use of mobile devices at all levels of public sector organizations, an online survey sponsored by SAP and Carahsoft, was conducted by i360Gov Custom Research, in February. In total, 331 government executives responded, providing invaluable insight on the acceptance and use of mobile technologies throughout all levels of government.

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Virtualization has revolutionized the way government, military, and commercial organizations deploy and manage software. With its unique kernel-level architecture and National Security Agency (NSA)-developed security mechanism that isolates each virtual machine as a protected process, Red Hat© sVirt delivers the industry’s most secure virtualization platform in an easily administered solution.

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One of the greatest challenges facing CIOs and IT directors is maintaining the security of their IT environments. The effects of a security breach can be catastrophic, including unplanned downtime and the resulting loss of service—a potentially significant financial impact—and the loss of sensitive and confidential information.

This problem has been compounded by the proliferation of networked PCs and servers, and the growing intelligence of malicious software that seeks to exploit and expand through the Internet infrastructure.

Find out how tools like Red Hat® Network can help system administrators react to and take action to thwart security breaches

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Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, is committed to using the principles of open source to provide enterprise-level security to its customers. This paper reviews open source software development principles and process and how those lead to more secure software. It also evaluates Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® security in the real world.

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Despite the availability of electronic records preservation solutions, nearly 60% of our survey’s respondents said they still don’t possess an easily accessible electronic repository of all state laws, present and past, hindering each organization’s ability to provide advanced web-based or online constituent services.

Download this special report to see the full results of this study presented along with expert analysis and case studies high lighting the latest initiatives and best practice advice for building and maintaining electronic repositories.