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Brandon Gulla, the chief technology officer of Rancher Government Solutions, said that virtualization is fast giving way to use of containerization managed under Kubernetes. That combination of technologies lets IT organizations approach what Gulla called the three pillars of excellence – security, speed and scale.
December 27, 2021 -
What are the key qualities of an effective leader? Has the pandemic changed the concept of leadership? What does it mean to lead through uncertain times? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more on a Special Edition of The Business of Government Hour...Leading Through Uncertain Times.
December 27, 2021 -
The increased threat surface driven by massive adoption of cloud services and remote delivery due to the pandemic means more endpoints, which means more endpoint data. Traditional security operations centers are overwhelmed by the amount of data generated by the adoption of cloud services. But if cloud is causing the challenge, it also provides the solution.
December 21, 2021 -
This week hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with renowned virus expert Dr. William Haseltine who has ‘grave concerns’ about Merck’s oral COVID drug Malnupiravir, which recently won narrow approval from the FDA advisory panel. He says the drug unleashes ‘dangerous’ mutations that could evolve the virus beyond control. He’s also urging extreme caution as the highly infectious omicron variant is sweeping across the US, saying it could be as deadly as the delta variant and that boosters may offer only limited protection of 3 months. Dr Haseltine, who developed the Anthrax vaccine and is President of ACCESS Health International, says public health protocols of masking, rapid testing and social distancing should be put back in place during this next surge.
December 20, 2021 -
What are the IT priorities of the U.S Department of Commerce? How is Commerce and its bureaus leveraging emerging technologies? What is Commerce doing to modernize and secure its IT infrastructure? Join host Michael J. Keegan as he explores these questions and more with André Mendes, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Commerce.
December 20, 2021 During this exclusive webinar, technology executives will discuss modernizing identity and access management as part of a zero trust journey while improving citizen services and mission effectiveness.
December 17, 2021-
Mark Schwartz, an enterprise strategist at Amazon Web Services, said public and private sector organizations like are responding to the pace of change, which between the pandemic, cloud services and the similar technologies has increased over the last few years.
December 17, 2021 -
How can agencies evolve to provide simple, non-bureaucratic, personalized services, and give citizens the information they need in the way they want and expect in today’s digital age? Rosetta Carrington Lue, director and industry principal for state and local government at Pegasystems, suggests automation is the answer.
December 17, 2021 -
The virtual work environment is opening up new professional development opportunities for NASA employees.
December 17, 2021 -
The FEDforum is an initiative at the show’s sister newsletter – FEDmanager – to unite voices across the federal community. This partnership among federal workforce organizations is a space for federal employee groups to share their organizations’ initiatives, insights, and activities with the FEDmanager audience.
December 17, 2021 -
Consolidating and integrating service management, application management, infrastructure management, delivery management and cyber management data and functions not only helps to reduce the need to jump from tool to tool, but also provides a 360-degree view into agency operations. To meet this need, Deloitte built OperateEdge, an integrated and intelligent IT Operations Management platform.
December 16, 2021 -
The Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate wants to help first responders realize the potential benefits of fifth-generation wireless communications and avoid the challenges associated with relying on more interconnected, digital technologies.
December 15, 2021 -
To maintain maritime dominance in the face of advanced threats from near-peer adversaries, leaders must focus on driving that software development to take on new characteristics. These are what CACI Chief Technology Officer Glenn Kurowski refers to as the three-legged stool of software development modernization: open, modern architecture; agile software development at scale; and fully embracing a DevSecOps platform like GitLab.
December 15, 2021 -
If reduction in infrastructure costs was the original motivation for commercial cloud computing adoption by federal agencies, today speed has become the primary motivator.
December 15, 2021 -
During this webinar, top government technology executives and industry experts will reflect on their 2021 accomplishments along with the people and technology that made these programs so successful.
December 13, 2021