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Mobile Enablement with Open Source
March 18th, 2016
Over the past several years, government has felt the pressure from citizens to use mobile for communication. In response, the public sector was able to quickly brainstorm ways to tap into widespread mobile usage and communicate outbound messages to citizens.
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How Platform-as-a-Service Speeds Up Time
February 8th, 2016
Together with our partner Red Hat, we believe that moving government technology to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) with OpenShift Enterprise could solve this pressing matter.
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It’s Time to Get to Know Your Data
January 27th, 2016
At last year’s Red Hat Government Symposium, FedRAMP Director Matt Goodrich spoke about how critical it is for agencies to understand their data before moving into the cloud. Agencies need to take stock of what data they have to make informed decisions about what information can move to the cloud.
- Tagged Cloud, FedRAMP, Hybrid Cloud, Red Hat
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Resolve to be More Open
January 22nd, 2016
It is never too early to start working on your New Year’s resolution. For 2016 many agencies are striving to become more open – both in terms of data shared and technology used. Whether the driving factor is federal mandates or the desire to reap the cost savings and time to market benefits of open source, the shift is happening.
- Tagged Open Government, Open Source
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Nexus Firewall: Quality at Velocity
January 14th, 2016
Repository managers like Sonatype’s Nexus, Artifactory and Archiva have been serving software components for development teams and their tooling for years now. In 2015, Sonatype introduced an innovative way to improve speed and reduce risk through the quarantine of components with known vulnerabilities.
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Looking to the Future with Cloud Computing
December 21st, 2015
The combination of cloud computing and open source technology provides the potential for government agencies to invest in new, enterprise-level software while ensuring they are using solutions that quickly adapt, guarantee agility, and comply with a growing list of federal IT mandates.
- Tagged Acquia, Alfresco, Cloud, Cloud Computing, FedRAMP, FITARA, JBoss, Open Source, OpenShift, OpenStack, Red Hat
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Opening Up Open Source Containers
December 16th, 2015
With government becoming more active users of open source technologies, containers are the next big trend popping up in federal IT shops. The container moniker is used because the technology approach is similar to what the shipping industry has done. Today, containers full of diverse goods are stacked upon one another and shipped on a single platform, be that a ship or a train. That same principle is now being applied to open source applications.
- Tagged Containers, Government of Canada, Open Source, OpenShift, PaaS, Red Hat
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Women in Technology: The Future is Bright
December 15th, 2015
Starting with Ada Lovelace’s role in the founding of scientific computing, women have been integral to the advancement of technology. In the past two decades, the acknowledgement of women’s roles in the tech industry has increased, as has the drive to get more women into what has traditionally been thought of as a particularly homogeneous industry.
- Tagged Government Technology, Open Source, Red Hat, Virtualization, VMware
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What APIs Mean for Government IT
December 14th, 2015
In the age of digital transformation, the federal government is lagging behind. Increasingly, federal agencies are being asked to build upon legacy systems that don’t necessarily sync easily with new technologies that are taking hold in the enterprise. Issues with two-speed, or bimodal, IT (an approach that enables agile innovation so IT can meet evolving business requirements while enabling existing systems to continue running efficiently and securely) are causing real disruptions in the government space.
- Tagged API, Apigee, Government Technology, Mobile Government, Open Source
