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.
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(PODCAST) Listen to this lively discussion with NetIQ's Travis Greene and Michele Hudnall and Forresters's Jean-Pierre Garbani regarding current business service management trends. The term "business service management" has been around >10 years with varying degrees of implementation success. Travis, Michele and J.P. Garbani explore failures, successes and future direction of IT organizations with the imperative to measure service performance for mission critical applications in the advent of cloud based services.
Sponsored by NetIQ.
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.
Sponsored by EMC and GovConnection.
With traditional policing practices unable to thwart a rising rate of criminal activity and budgets tight, the Memphis PD (MPD) pioneered a way to focus their patrol resources more intelligently. By recognizing crime trends as they are happening, MPD’s predictive enforcement tool gives precinct commanders the ability to change their tactics and redirect their patrol resources in a way that both thwarts crimes before they happen and catches more criminals in the act. Through such smart policing approaches, MPD has reduced the overall crime volume in Memphis by 30%, making life safer for its citizens.
The benefits of Memphis Police Department’s predictive crime prevention practices included a reduction in serious crime overall, including a 36.8% reduction in crime in one targeted area, a reduction in violent crime, an increase in the share of cases solved in the MPD’s Felony Assault Unit (FAU and an overall improvement in the ability to allocate police resources in a budget-constrained fiscal environment.
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Sponsored by IBM.
Transport services can become a differentiator for cities to attract and retain the talent necessary to drive growth, as they have a critical influence on the attractiveness and livability of a location. For cities and regions that can attract the right talent, the resulting wealth can be spread out across the economy.
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Sponsored by IBM.
The first edition of The Telco Acronyms Guide is a handy guide to help you decipher the telecom industry’s acronym alphabet soup. Inside, you’ll find over 2,000 entries! Download this complimentary guide now.
Sponsored by Ciena.
BSMReview, a business service management community of business and IT professionals, conducted a survey to measure the maturity of BSM initiatives industry-wide. The survey provides a 2011 benchmark for the adoption, perceptions and expectations of Business Service Management. The survey results validate the industry definition of Business Service Management, quantify its value to the organization and provide a means for organizations to assess the level of IT and business alignment based on market and business maturity. Download the complimentary report now to learn more.
Sponsored by NetIQ.
As IT environments become more dynamic and complex due to the increased use of virtualization, cloud SOA and n-tier application architectures, IT organizations face a number of challenges in understanding how IT performance issues impact end-users and critical business processes. This IDC whitepaper explains how you can streamline these complicated IT operations by using business service management software.
Sponsored by NetIQ.
Complex societal, economic, political and environmental pressures are placing intense demands on public sector organizations to make smarter decisions, deliver results and demonstrate accountability. An unprecedented “information explosion” both facilitates and complicates the ability of governments to achieve desirable outcomes. A tremendous opportunity exists to use the growing mountain of data to make better, fact-based decisions. Yet, the volume of data and its increasingly diverse nature can also paralyze organizations. Analytics goes beyond reporting and provides the mechanism to sort through this maelstrom of information and help governments respond with informed decisions.
How are governments and public institutions applying analytics today? What are the implications for public sector organizations? How should agencies advance their analytics competency in today’s complex environment?
To answer these questions, IBM interviewed more than 100 public sector leaders from around the world and conducted extensive secondary research. This study is a first step in identifying how analytics can help address a broad range of public issues.
Sponsored by IBM.
This guide covers the five characteristics of data centers today that require new thinking when it comes to disaster recovery planning. Read on and discover what you need to consider when planning disaster recovery for the modern government agency.
Sponsored by NetIQ.
What are the NSA's Red and Blue Teams, the SANS 20 Critical Security Controls and NIST's Guidance for Continuous Monitoring, all telling us? That IT security needs to move away from its largely local manual efforts to automated, standardized security controls that can be continuously monitored enterprise wide.
The NSA's Red Teams and Blue Teams have shown that the same security weaknesses occur repeatedly, and that most of these weaknesses are the due to poor configuration management practices. The SANS 20 Critical Security Controls and the NIST Guidance all focus on implementing automated security controls that can be monitored enterprise wide. It is not likely that improvements in our current largely manual processes will achieve acceptable results.
We at Belarc believe that these objectives can best be achieved with an automated system based on instrumented end points and a WAN based architecture. Click on "download this whitepaper" to request a copy of our white paper, "Securing the Enterprise".
Sponsored by Belarc.
There is a growing need to protect sensitive employee, customer, and business data across the enterprise wherever such data may reside. Until recently, most data theft occurred from malicious individuals hacking into production databases. With a number of well publicized and costly thefts creating both tremendous legal liability and bad publicity for the effected organizations, business has quickly grown more sophisticated in protecting against such attacks, but so have the attackers.
In the white paper, Best Practices for Ensuring Data Privacy in Production and Nonproduction Systems, you will learn about:
Sponsored by Informatica.
ClearanceJobs just released the 2012 Security Clearance Compensation Survey. This report is the only comprehensive survey of security-cleared salaries and compensation available anywhere. Used as a resource by Federal agencies, contractors, research firms, and recruiting agencies, this report summarizes average cleared salaries by clearance level, polygraph, geography and occupation. Get your copy now.
Sponsored by ClearanceJobs.
Software License Management used to be about avoiding penalties for being under licensed. But today, many organizations are over-licensed and paying annually for maintenance and applications that are not used and sometimes not even installed. Of course it's easier to simply count the number of boxes and purchase a volume licensing agreement, such as Software Assurance, to cover everything. But how much money are you wasting annually by doing this? For most organizations the answer is, a lot.
Here's a recent example, where the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs saved $ millions annually by simply paying for what they have installed. "VA junks key Microsoft software license agreement"
For details on how you can go about optimizing your software license and annual maintenance costs, please click the link below and request our white paper "Software License Management - Why spend so much money on unused software and annual maintenance."
Sponsored by Belarc.
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.
Download this brief whitepaper to learn more about why you wouldn't want any other solution.
Sponsored by DLT Solutions and Symantec.
An i360Gov Special Report.
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.
Sponsored by Carahsoft and SAP.
Symantec has been an enterprise DLP leader since its 2007 acquisition of Vontu, and the company recently extended its DLP footprint to include tablets. This makes an attractive combination for large organizations as it aligns enterprise and device-specific controls by offering a single iPad security agent as a security foundation, integrating with Symantec DLP and strong roadmap. Download this whitepaper to learn more about Symantec’s data loss prevention.
Sponsored by DLT Solutions and Symantec.
An i360Gov Special Report.
Federal, state and local government organizations are in the midst of consolidating data centers, servers and end-user computing to streamline IT infrastructure, while working to identify and secure cloud-based workloads to comply with multiple White House-led efficiency mandates.
Although some agencies have taken the plunge into public cloud services, the vast majority of government organizations at all levels still face challenges sorting through the confusion that surrounds various forms of cloud computing services. Public sector organizations are working to decipher how best to leverage the various types of cloud services, ranging from internal private clouds to government community clouds to public clouds that utilize services from external providers.
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Sponsored by Symantec.
Underperforming applications are a common complaint in public sector agencies. Email is slow. A report took too long to generate. CRM page loads are taking too long. The intranet site is showing sporadic errors. Troubleshooting these types of tough IT problems can be a difficult, time-consuming challenge.
Fortunately there is a readily available Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution that public sector IT shops can leverage to become proactive, preventing these problems from happening in the first place; a solution that is not overly cumbersome or complex, and has the backing of a real company.
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Sponsored by SolarWinds.
Luring business by offering the largest tax breaks and incentive packages is no longer a successful model for economic development. The rise of a virtual workforce with the freedom to choose where they live and work is driving a new model that targets the needs of the individual rather than the corporation. Technology becomes the game changer in this model.
To reap the benefits, government must shift its focus beyond IT sticker price and total cost of ownership to total economic impact. Learn how to assess the value of a technological game changer and the four steps to achieving your larger objectives. Read the Center for Digital Government paper, "Economic Game Changer: Powering the Next Generation Government."
Sponsored by Cisco.
Server virtualization is the de facto solution for the evolution of federal data centers from inefficient and costly server farms into modern, high-performance facilities that deliver government services in a cost-effective, reliable and scalable manner.
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Sponsored by DLT Solutions, NetApp and Red Hat.
An i360Gov Special Report.
Despite the widespread use of advanced cybersecurity tools and techniques, a persistent threat of malware intrusions continues unabated. Government networks remain the primary target of hackers around the globe. In i360Gov.com's latest report, "Mitigating Malware Risks," you will gain valuable advice and insights from officials at the Department of Homeland Security, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the SANS Institute, among others. Minimizing the risks will require leadership, agile partnerships and a willingness to share information.
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Sponsored by Blue Coat.
A Study of Knowledge Worker Collaboration Workflows
Document creation and distribution is a core activity for knowledge workers and is an increasingly collaborative one. One of the most pressing questions facing IT decision-makers is the optimal desktop software image to support this activity, especially as collaboration expands to include more people both inside and outside the organization.
In attempting to answer this question, IT may overlook a powerful collaborative tool, Adobe Acrobat X, which offers many productivity benefits. In combination with productivity software such as Microsoft Office 2010 and back-end collaborative solutions such as Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Adobe Acrobat X can greatly increase knowledge worker productivity for collaborative document creation, review, and distribution.
Learn more about Adobe Acrobat X in this free whitepaper.
Sponsored by Adobe and GovConnection.
An i360Gov Special Report.
Government organizations are working hard to do more with less, consolidating data centers and striving to deliver more services online to help lower operating costs and comply with federal regulatory mandates such as the Office of Management and Budget’s 25-Point Plan to Reform Federal IT.
A big part of the ongoing consolidation efforts includes virtualization, putting more applications on fewer servers to save space and reduce complexity in government data centers. Trouble is, virtualization implementation efforts in many organizations have slowed, partly due to the difficulties that arise in the management and control of rampant storage growth.
Read this special report to learn more, including interviews with industry experts and best-practice advice.
Sponsored by DLT Solutions, NetApp and Red Hat.
An i360Gov Special Report.
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.
Sponsored by EMC.
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