Business Velocity on a New Scale is creating the need for entirely new levels of performance, flexibility, and scalability in today’s IT infrastructures. Driven by new market and business requirements, IT systems and processes need to access unprecedented and dynamic scalability, easily and quickly, while still maintaining control and flexibility to adapt to rapidly changing requirements. From Web 2.0 applications for collaboration and social networking, to oil and gas exploration, visual effects rendering, credit card processing and a wide range of enterprise activities – demand for storage flexibility and performance is exploding. IT and storage demands fluctuate with new applications and users, requiring the ability to continually manage performance and capacity.

BlueArc’s Titan Architecture creates a revolutionary step in file servers by creating a hardware-based file system that can scale throughput, IOPS and capacity well beyond conventional software-based file servers. With its ability to virtualize a massive storage pool of up to 4 petabytes of usable, tiered storage, Titan can scale with growing data requirements and provide a competitive advantage for business processes by consolidating applications while ensuring optimal performance.

In this white paper you will find 10 best practices for implementing bid and proposal management software and discover the secrets of implementation. Learn how to gain executive buy-in, minimize the training burden without sacrificing end-user education, stagger the IT workload based upon the implementation phase, demonstrate the benefits of the new software to end-users from day one, and incorporate remote workers into the training.

Business intelligence (BI) represents an unusual paradox today for many major companies. Most have had BI activities underway for many years. While their BI practices may be maturing, the underlying infrastructure and technologies supporting their BI operations are typically in a state of constant flux. In part, this is due to the naturally evolving nature of the technologies supporting BI. But technology change is not the only driving factor. Many companies continue to search for solutions that can address pressing concerns that they are grappling with, in terms of their existing BI infrastructure. While these concerns vary by company, they typically can be grouped into three major categories: the need to rein in total cost of ownership (TCO) expenses, the need to address unsatisfactory service levels, and issues surrounding data warehousing complexity.

Federal IT groups implement ITIL standards to provide more effective operations, service creation and service delivery. Core enabling technologies, processes, and a culture of high accountability are key to increasing responsiveness to government needs. This white paper examines the fundamental concepts surrounding these requirements: Business Service Management (BSM) and the Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB).

Federal IT executives must be aware of service issues to prevent degradation or service interruption. By monitoring, reporting on and managing IT, ASG’s Business Service Platform (BSP) for Government enables proactive IT operations management and provides the tools to successfully deliver dynamic government services. At the core of ASG’s BSP is ASG’s MetaCMDB which provides the foundation for government agencies to automatically discover all IT system components, map their relationships and link them to the service they support for government users.

Going green has become an imperative, not an option, for government agencies at every level.Government is faced with the new reality of balancing mission objectives with dwindling environmental resources and the federal and state government mandates intended to mitigate the problem. Limited energy supply and skyrocketing costs are compelling government to take radical measures to reduce its carbon footprint.

IT is perhaps taking the biggest hit, with energy consumption in the datacenter reaching all-time highs and with proliferating computer hardware fated to become e-waste. As IT seeks to adopt a sustainable approach, conservation of electricity, space and equipment threatens to work at cross-purposes with essential agency functions and missions.

Savvy government CIOs are preparing now by developing IT strategies that can support green initiatives while still supporting mission-critical activities. Rest assured, green IT can be achieved without compromise to performance. Virtualization – in which applications run independent of platform, server and desktop operating systems run virtualized on device hardware — enables IT organizations to achieve their missions while minimizing energy consumption and waste.

A shrinking workforce will create enormous challenges for federal agencies in coming years. By 2020, it’s estimated there will be 14 million fewer suitable candidates to fill the number of job openings available in the U.S. alone. Public sector institutions are turning to internet-based learning management from Oracle.

The impact of a single individual with malicious intent can bring tremendous harm -- ranging from staff hours lost to ‘fix’ systems, to extensive negative publicity, severe citizen distrust and immense financial damages. Oracle can help ensure public sector data is protected.

In the struggle to achieve regulatory compliance, most federal agencies and departments wrestle with dilemmas stemming from disparate financial management systems, a lack of accurate and timely recording, weak IT security, inadequate reconciliation procedures and an 'uneven' adherence to federal accounting standards.

Based on ‘best in class’ solutions, Oracle can help agencies standardize on frameworks to meet evolving regulatory demands. Click here to learn how federal agencies are seeking new ways to present compliance information and conduct more flexible, real-time analysis and reporting.

The impact of a single individual with malicious intent can bring tremendous harm -- ranging from staff hours lost to ‘fix’ systems, to extensive negative publicity, severe citizen distrust and immense financial damages. Oracle can help ensure public sector data is protected. Click here to learn how agencies can meet security, compliance and risk management challenges.

Despite the mass of legacy-based, stovepipe systems and processes lacking automation and enterprise-wide integration that have taken root throughout the public sector, modernization will enable federal agencies to update legacy applications, lower costs, increase agility and avoid risks in relying on retiring legacy skill sets and the need to continually react to ever-changing legislative requirements. Oracle’s solutions create a low-risk approach to modernization. Click here to read about best practices federal organizations can take to jumpstart their IT modernization efforts.

Discover the compelling forces driving companies and government agencies to adopt a strategy for greening the data center in this free white paper from GTSI, “Reducing Data Centers' Power and Energy Consumption: Saving Money and ‘Going Green.’" Organizations today recognize that there is a finite budget for operations and a finite amount of energy for power and cooling – and are becoming increasingly aware that Green IT is a practical way to optimize their data centers, reduce costs, consume less energy, and implement sustainable energy conservation measures to serve the public good.

Central to the Green IT movement is virtualization. And at GTSI’s Virtualization Zone, you can explore some of the challenges facing companies and governments as they strive for virtualization. Plus, you’ll find best practices employed by GTSI and others to fully realize the benefits of virtualization -- both environmental and economic. Just how much savings can be realized through virtualization? While in the Zone, check out the Virtualization Calculator. Enter your numbers and see for yourself how much you’ll benefit by “Going Green.”

Everyone knows there is no silver bullet for security. And like all organizations, government agencies have to contend with increasingly complex, potentially damaging and a surprisingly sophisticated new class of security threats. But governmental bodies face consequences that private companies do not. With everything from national security to regulatory compliance to the confidence of the citizenry at stake, the need for ironclad data security is great. Meanwhile, it is equally important to cut costs, maintain service levels and comply with IT architectural standards. These are challenging times indeed for Federal agencies and other organizations. Learn what five steps you can take now to feel confident that you are being proactive and preparing your organization for the future.

A SOA Gateway is a core infrastructure component of a SOA with the ability to integrate XML/SOAP-based services securely. Typically deployed as a hardware appliance, a SOA Gateway seamlessly controls access to services, protects information through data-level encryption, ensures the integrity of a message through signatures, and controls information flow. This article covers SOA Gateway deployment best practices, benefits and requirements with a focus on service virtualization, message privacy and integrity, and message control and auditing.

Recent trends in federal datacenter environments have placed increased pressures on IT managers including system consolidation and unpredictable budgets. This situation has prompted federal customers to seek ways to increase service levels while operating under strict budgets.

A number of federal agencies have set ambitious goals for themselves in areas such as server consolidation, datacenter consolidation, and power-saving programs for datacenters.

Today’s military doctrine calls for more agile, mobile, self-sustaining weapons systems and platforms.  To support this new doctrine, the DOD has been re-engineering its logistics and maintenance operations.  In this new maintenance and logistics environment, operators of weapons systems and platforms will perform more of their own maintenance while in the field.

Enigma’s Integrated Maintenance/Logistics (E-IML) solution answers the need for a single electronic interface to perform maintenance in the field or at the depot. It’s more than the traditional Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM). It offers the following benefits:

• Reduces the logistics footprint of platforms and weapons systems
• Automate paper-based maintenance processes
• Links the platform/mechanic to the supply chain (real-time access to relevant weapon systems information)
• Reduces the total lifecycle cost of the platform
• Reduces incorrect part orders
• Provides increased readiness without increasing headcount

In this publication you will find dozens of short, real-life stories of challenges met—and transcended—through fresh thinking and the creative application of state-of-the-art information technology (IT). We've grouped these stories by the three main segments of the public sector, but urge you to browse outside your own industry to see if there are any new, “outside the box” ideas that may be useful for your organization.

As the military and US government rely more heavily on custom-built applications for communications and management, they also become more vulnerable to cyber attacks. Worse, according to the Dept. of Homeland Security, the number of attacks on custom-built applications is doubling every year. Learn about critical threats, methods that military and civilian agencies can use to deal with cyber attacks and technologies that improve security for custom-built applications.

Customers in nearly every vertical, large and small, are depending on JBoss for their mission critical applications and services. Why? JBoss delivers industry-leading support. JBoss increases developer productivity with open standards and open source code. JBoss delivers superior total cost of ownership so you can start more projects and focus on what differentiates your business. Simply stated, JBoss Enterprise Middleware delivers value.