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Federal Government, Open Source

Report Uncovers Biggest Opportunities for Digital Government Innovation

May 21st, 2015

Often we’re our own worst critics. Perhaps that’s why a survey of federal leaders benchmarking progress on fulfilling the Digital Government Strategy resulted in a C+ average. The survey, commissioned by Acquia and conducted by the Government Business Council, identified some of the key challenges to seizing the opportunities that digital offers federal government agencies to better serve both internal and external customers.

Tagged Acquia, Digital Strategy, Open Government, Open Source

Cloud Computing, Open Source

How to Fit Cloud into Government IT Shops

May 5th, 2015

Red Hat’s Chief Strategist for Red Hat US Public Sector, Gunnar Hellekson recently sat down with American City and County Magazine to talk about the current state of cloud use in government.

Tagged Government Technology, Hybrid Cloud, Open Source Cloud, Red Hat

Open Source

Discovering Open Source Essentials

February 20th, 2015

Enterprise Open Source Solutions are already well established within the public sector and the grow arrow is still pointing upwards.

Tagged CollabNet, Enterprise Open Source Solutions, EnterpriseDB, Open Source, PostgreSQL, Red Hat, SELinux

Open Source

Opening Linux Containers for Government

January 28th, 2015

Agencies often struggle to maintain speed and flexibility when developing applications. In a recent post David Egts, Chief Technologist of Red Hat Public Sector, addresses how containers can accelerate application development

Tagged Containers, Government of Canada, Linux, Open Source, Open Source Technology, Red Hat

Open Source

MongoDB Poised for a Successful 2015 After Being Named Fastest Growing Database for the Second Year in a Row

January 15th, 2015

In a study done by DBengines, 3 open source databases were named as the quickest growing databases of 2014.

Tagged Database, MongoDB, NoSQL, Open Source, Open Source Solutions

Open Source, Virtualization

Open Source’s Evolution in Federal Government

December 22nd, 2014

VMware Vice President of Federal Business, Bill Rowan, recently sat down with ExecutiveBiz to talk about the future of Open Source technologies in the federal government.

Tagged FedRAMP, Open Source, Open Source Technology, OpenStack, Virtualization, VMware

Cloud Computing, Open Source

How Agencies Are Using Open Source to Modernize Applications in the Cloud

December 16th, 2014

Today’s IT environments are rapidly moving to the cloud. This creates new challenges for agencies as they make this change, and one of the biggest issues is what to do with all of the existing applications.