Chris Chapman, a senior vice president and chief technology officer at MacStadium, said government agencies should consider providing employees remote access to Mac technology through the cloud to offer an environment for application development and general office use. To address the need, Chapman said MacStadium has come up with virtualization plat...
ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) has secured a potential five-year, $250 million blanket purchase agreement from the Department of Health and Human Services to provide digital workflow platforms to help HHS manage applications, optimize inventory and reduce waste. The company said Thursday it partnered with Carahsoft Technology to offer its ServiceNow Technol...
Mike Malaret, director of sales engineering for public sector at Veritas Technologies, said government agencies should prioritize data protection by developing a detailed strategy that could enable them to quickly respond to data breaches and restore data and applications that are key to delivering services to citizens. Malaret urged agencies to imp...
James Donlon, director of solution engineering at Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), said government agencies that are moving to the cloud as part of their digital modernization efforts should adopt cloud-based tools that provide them security capabilities and visibility into their IT systems. Donlon discussed how cloud-based automation could enable agencies to p...
Kevin Hansen, public sector chief technology officer at Micro Focus Government Solutions, said government agencies looking to implement cloud-based systems and manage mission-critical legacy information technology platforms should develop a strategy that takes agility, flexibility and governance into consideration. “To avoid legacy IT dependencies...
Jared Vichengrad, vice president and head of state, local government and education at Rubrik, said government agencies that are moving to the cloud should come up with data protection plans and adopt zero trust data security to safeguard data from intrusions and quickly recover from cyberattacks. Vichengrad wrote that such data protection plans shou...
Jennifer Hayes, sales director at MongoDB, said government agencies looking to update legacy applications in a secure and fully managed environment in support of their missions should consider adopting database-as-a-service platforms. Hayes discussed how cloud database services like Atlas for Government could help federal, local and state government...
Tres Vance, North America Cloud GTM lead at Red Hat, said government agencies looking to streamline their migration to the cloud and meet their technology modernization goals should consider establishing a cloud center of excellence that adheres to best practices for observability and governance as well as adopt open source platforms. “When we mov...
Gary Wang and Bob Ferrari of Peraton said government agencies are implementing hybrid cloud environments to meet mission needs but there are challenges that should be addressed, including security vulnerabilities, the need to integrate applications, workloads and services across on-premises systems and clouds and the capacity to manage diverse tools...
Jason Payne, chief technology officer for Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal business, said government agencies looking to accelerate information technology modernization while advancing cybersecurity and collaboration and seeking to leverage analytical capabilities should understand the role of cloud technology in such efforts. “There is widesp...
