Mark White, Global Technology CTO for Deloitte Consulting LLP, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the company's recent report: "Tech Trends 2015: The Fusion of business and IT: A public sector perspective." October 13, 2015
The Dell-EMC merger is the largest ever between two tech companies and secures Dell's position in an ever-changing IT industry.
The loss of data from the Office of Personnel Management continues to resonate throughout the federal government. It sparked a fresh look at how agencies manage their data and their cybersecurity. One cyber expert says it's time to make cyber a real, not an imagined, priority. Ari Rabkin is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute's Technology Policy Center. Federal Drive host Tom Temin asks him, wasn't cyber already a priority?
Cybersecurity and customer service were popular additions to many federal agencies' priority goals for 2016 and 2017.
While industry is excited about the Internet of Things, agencies have shown they've been interconnecting systems and applications for years. But the Privacy Act is standing in the government's way to go further, some say.
Darren Blue is heading over to the Veterans Affairs Department after spending the last seven years at GSA. The FDIC gets a new CIO and NNSA a new chief learning officer.
David Shive, the GSA chief information officer, said encouraging more employees to take advantage of the virtual desktop interface (VDI) technology, and modernizing and rationalizing applications are the next steps to improve the agency’s technology environment.
IRS commissioner John Koskinen wrote to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) that his agency needs to be part of the budget talks for increasing cybersecurity funding.