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SBA relying on shared services to improve cyber posture

Chase Garwood, the SBA acting CIO, said the agency is working with DHS and Justice to improve the security of its internal and external customer-facing systems.

Tags: Chase Garwood , SBA , cybersecurity , Microsoft , data management , shared services , mobile computing , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller

Thursday - 05/02/2013, 09:08am EDT

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IRS tones its systems to better handle the tax season

Two contracts with Unisys that could be worth more than $800 million help the tax agency innovate and become more efficient. The IRS is using the first-of-its-kind in the federal market storage-as-a-service approach to increasing and decreasing the amount of storage it needs based on how busy it is during the year.

Tags: Unisys , IRS , PV Puvvada , cloud computing , CADE , IT services , Jason Miller

Wednesday - 05/01/2013, 03:43am EDT

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The cloud and the federal market

Steve Kousen, vice president of Cloud Email and Collaboration Services at Unisys will discuss what agencies and contractors can expect as they move some of their services to the cloud.
April 30, 2013

Tags: acquisition , contracting , procurement , Steve Kousen , Unisys , cloud computing , cloud email , collaboration , sequestration , Roger Waldron , GSA , Off the Shelf

Tuesday - 04/30/2013, 08:43pm EDT

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mHealth, standards, and healthcare IT

John Gilroy hosts a roundtable discussion of mobile health applications and and how they can be certified to meet specific standards.
April 30, 2013

Tags: mhealth , Healthcare IT , mobile applications , iPhone , Food and Drug Administration , app certification , David Scher , DLS Healthcare Consulting , mHiMSS , Tony Martin , Tom Leary , HiMSS , mobile health applications , mobile health , HIPAA , electronic health record , information technology , John Gilroy , Federal Tech Talk

Tuesday - 04/30/2013, 08:02pm EDT

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Obama: Cuts mean US could lose years of research

Tags: budget , sequestration , National Science Foundation , Barack Obama

Tuesday - 04/30/2013, 08:55am EDT

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Virtualization & Data Center Consolidation-"Progress & Best Practices" 2013

b>Listen April 30th @ 12pm

Program will discuss the following: Progress Report on Virtualization & Data Center Consolidation, Key Benefits Associated with Virtualization & DCC, How Does Cloud Computing Get Factored into your Strategy, Major Challenges to Achieving their Goals, Is Security a concern in a Virtualized Environment, and A Future Vision for the next 1 to 3 years

Tags: Trezza Media Group , virtualization , data center consolidation , Ray Brow , Larry Grossman , Zach Baldwin , Darren House , tim lemaster , Julie Lockner , Informatica , Juniper Networks , Unicom

Monday - 04/29/2013, 03:48pm EDT

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Tightening budgets force DARPA to alter course for R&D

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been at the forefront of some of the most innovative technologies ever created — including the Internet. But as budgets tighten, the agency's director says she's trying to figure out how to deal with an increasingly complex threat environment as less money flows into the research and development pipeline.

Tags: DoD , DARPA , research and development , Arati Prabhakar , Jared Serbu , cybersecurity , GPS , sequestration

Monday - 04/29/2013, 10:25am EDT

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