• Constituent Engagement

Let It Go – Opening Data for Better Citizen Engagement

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October 7th, 2014

This summer, Carahsoft hosted their 4th annual Citizen Engagement seminar. The purpose of this event is to help government organizations understand how to best use technology to interact with their constituents and create an open dialog for solving problems and moving communities forward.

• Tagged API, Constituent Engagement, Constituent Engagement Seminar, Social Media

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• Cybersecurity

Mitigating Insider Threats

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October 3rd, 2014

Recent events reminded government & industry of the real & dangerous consequences of insider threats. A cleared, trusted individual inside a government agency was able to gain access to highly sensitive and privileged information with severely damaging results.

• Tagged Cybersecurity, HyTrust, Insider Threat, Virtualization

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• Virtualization

PA Uses Virtualization to Improve Service and Reduce Costs

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October 1st, 2014

Virtualization and IT consolidation, for many states, has been one way to achieve economies of scale that allow valued IT services to continue despite decreased budgets, hiring freezes, and limitations on purchasing. In Pennsylvania, state leaders were well positioned to achieve these types of cost benefits, as the commonwealth has been pioneering consolidation for years.

• Tagged Local Government, Virtualization, VMware

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• Mobility

Are Federal Agencies Passing the Test on Telework?

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September 29th, 2014

It’s been two years since OMB’s Digital Government Strategy and nearly four years since the passage of the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010. Is the Federal government making the grade in mobility and telework or is it barely passing?

• Tagged BYOD, Federal Agencies, Mobile, Mobile Government, Telework

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• Constituent Engagement

Citizen Engagement, New Technology, and the Future

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September 25th, 2014

Today, when we talk about citizen engagement, we’re no longer just referencing public forums or printed flyers. Digital is where everything is heading.

• Tagged Constituent Engagement, Digital Strategy

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• Big Data

EMC Federal CTO on the Government Transformation of Big Data

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September 23rd, 2014

EMC Isilon’s Federal Market CTO, Audie Hittle, recently shared his insights on how big data initiatives are transforming government. According to Hittle, identifying insights from data, regardless of size, is the common thread across agencies.

• Tagged Big Data, EMC, Government Big Data

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• Mobility

CarahTalk: BYOD Implementation with CIO Kimberly Hancher (EEOC)

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September 19th, 2014

Kimberly Hancher has been a contributing member of the Federal Information Technology (IT) community for over 25 years. She began her career at the Department of Veterans Affairs managing technical support for mainframes, minicomputers, and local area networks supporting over 10,000 users. In addition, Mrs. Hancher managed large-scale software development activities, hardware and software deployments, and inter-agency data exchange projects.

• Tagged FCC, Mobile, Mobile Government

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• Cybersecurity

Insider Threat Report

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September 17th, 2014

Securing sensitive data in the age of Big Data and the Internet Cloud is difficult. Because the average time to discover a breach made by an insider is 200 days, often the extent of the damage is never fully known.

• Tagged Cloud, Cybersecurity, HyTrust, Virtualization

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• GIS

CarahTalk: GeoPDF Trends with Raymond Caputo (Army Corps of Engineers)

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September 15th, 2014

Since 2007, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been using georeferenced PDF files as a way to distribute NGA standard map products for demand-based replication. The small size (2-9 MB) makes it possible to disseminate the files across the Internet even with low bandwidth. The files support the distributed printing concept and enables customers to use local plotters to create standard products on demand.

• Tagged GeoPDF, Geospatial, GIS, TerraGo

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