IT Modernization
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Kevin Youngquist, the senior director of federal civilian for Veritas Technologies, details how agencies can begin preparing for IT modernization efforts by understanding their data.
September 28, 2017 -
Chris Townsend, the vice president of federal at Symantec, said the IT modernization initiative opens the door for agencies to relook at how they protect their systems and data.
September 28, 2017 -
The Cloud Center of Excellence has four working documents designed to help agencies tackle funding challenges and acquire and secure cloud solutions with more confidence.
September 26, 2017 -
When federal agencies talk about IT modernization, sometimes they’re trying to find ways to upgrade hardware. But that issue is lessening the more agencies host their applications in the cloud. The more enduring modernization issue is legacy applications and the code from which they’re built.
September 25, 2017 -
Dave DeVries retired after 35 years in government including the last year as the chief information officer at OPM.
September 08, 2017 -
Sean Westbrook, a digital media manager and content writer for True North ITG, makes the case for why agencies should move to the cloud sooner than later.
September 05, 2017 -
The White House’s American Technology Council is seeking comments on its draft plan to move agencies off legacy IT.
September 05, 2017 -
Joe Kim, senior VP and global chief technology officer, SolarWinds, makes the case for why federal CIOs to better understand the hybrid network model.
August 14, 2017 -
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service and the Federal Communications Commission are further along with using dev/ops to modernize applications in the cloud.
August 04, 2017 -
In part 2 of his column about category management, IBM’s Tim Wood details how agencies can get started.
July 25, 2017 -
Tim Wood, vice president and partner for the Supply Chain Management Practice, IBM Global Business Services, details how agencies can take advantage of the concept of cognitive category management to save money and drive efficiencies.
July 24, 2017 -
Near-weekly, worldwide cybersecurity threats underscore the importance of network, end-point, and application monitoring. Federal agencies have worked under a policy of continuous monitoring/continuous diagnostics and mitigation for a decade. But given the seemingly unending growth in attack vectors, the spread of internal infrastructure to commercial cloud providers, and the rise of insider threats – they’ve got to up the game into what might be called advanced cyber monitoring.
July 05, 2017 -
Two months after the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act implementation, the DATA Act is proving to not only be a source of financial accountability, but a beacon, platform, and self-help tool for managing government.
June 30, 2017 -
Eric Jeanmaire, the branch chief for the Verification IT Portfolio Modernization at USCIS in the Homeland Security Department, said moving to an agile approach to development delivered capabilities more quickly and more successfully.
June 30, 2017 -
In just over seven years, agencies have submitted more than 149,000 data sets to the data.gov portal. Of those, the Commerce and Interior departments account for more than 110,000 of them.
June 23, 2017