Winter 2012
Features
Efforts to implement sustainable IT yield another major benefit: lower costs.
Moving client virtualization to the cloud offers significant benefits.
Understanding an agency’s needs and testing to make sure they’re met are keys to effective contingency planning.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa decreases travel between sites with high-definition video arraignments.
Departments
Brief Byte:
As USDA consolidates its business apps, virtualized storage helps the department wrangle all the data.
Brief Byte:
Storage Intelligence
HP’s Storage Essentials can help agencies get the most out of their storage resources.
Product Review:
This unified hardware and software security solution offers embedded web, e-mail and data loss prevention applications integrated into one appliance.
Tech Tips:
Endpoint Security for BYOD
Everyone wants to bring personal devices into the workplace; these tips will help keep your network secure.
Tech Trends:
Managing Mobility
Facing the spread of network endpoints, agencies search for the right fit to meet their security needs.
FedTech Interview:
Michael Mestrovich
We talk with the senior technology officer for innovation at the Defense Intelligence Agency about the agency's IT operations.
Best Practices:
Getting Data Center Consolidation Right
USDA’s four-year effort offers important insights into overcoming human and technological challenges.
Best Practices:
Cybersecurity 2.0
High-profile worm attacks may be behind us, but today’s sophisticated cyberthreats require fresh approaches to network security.
The Business of IT:
Cloud’s Dirty Little Secret
Reaching federal goals for cloud computing will require agencies to navigate a minefield.
Opinion
Contributor Column:
Making the Jump
To take advantage of cloud computing, agencies must figure out what data to put in the cloud and how best to use it.
Real-World IT:
A Good Reason to Do the Right Thing
All the motivation IT managers need to implement green IT practices can be found on the bottom line.
