When blending virtualization and SOA, take advantage of features inherited from VM containers.

These two tips can help you turn smart IT practices into ROI for your data center.

Clusters of servers — sometimes thousands in a grid — let agencies tap computing power that once was the exclusive domain of supercomputers.

The latest enhancements to virtualization tools can help boost management, disaster recovery and performance for virtual environments.

Do you know what is really on your network?

Thin clients and blades combined with a secure server technology offer a consolidated approach to multilevel security.

To borrow and twist a phrase from John Donne: "No LAN is an island," especially in the 21st century.

The Internet is held together with 'glue information' that doesn't automatically map from v4 to v6.

A primer on weaving EA and systems development into an investment management framework.

A step-by-step approach offers agencies a way to gain long-lived digital integrity using short-lived hash functions.

A virtual tape library can ease data storage and access management.

Automated provisioning tools can retrieve data quickly and improve data center management. Learn how this works from one USDA agency.

First things first: Do you know how your data's used and how often?

The ACSI expert on federal Web sites tells you how to figure out whether your site serves citizens well.

Can hierarchical storage management break your backup logjam?

By virtualizing data, your IT team can all but eliminate downtime and load balance easily across your agency's servers.

To let handheld users in your agency tap into data via Wi-Fi, consider using virtual private networking and SSL tunnels.

PTO and a Treasury office make working from home worthwhile for their employees.

Federal agencies take a science fiction approach to tracking everything from equipment to people. Radio frequency identification (RFID) gains traction as agencies try to cut costs.