Virtualization

  • Agencies have stepped up the pace of their data center consolidation efforts, leading to predicted data center closures numbering well above what the Office of Management and Budget predicted earlier this year.

    July 21, 2011
  • June 22nd at 1 PM Do you know the difference between Virtualization and cloud computing? Are you clear on the truth and myths surrounding Virtualization and what Federal managers need to know now and for the future? Listen to the \"Virtualization: What Federal Managers Need to Know\" panel to hear these questions answered by industry experts and government leaders from the Census Bureau, U-S-P-S, and the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board.

    June 20, 2011
  • Brian McGrath, the chief information officer at the Census Bureau, says his agency is about to implement a “virtualization-first” policy. He tells Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller, “All new applications will be serviced via a virtualized guest as opposed to a bare-metal deployment of hardware. Unless there is a compelling engineering or architechture reason to [...]

    May 13, 2011
  • Federal agencies are working to provide a complete, secure computing experience to enable employees to ‘work from a distance\', or, telework. With VMware, agency-standard PC clients can be quickly provisioned, deployed and managed from the datacenter. Agency personnel can securely access familiar resources through government furnished equipment OR their own PCs. Our customers have saved up to 45% on desktop computing costs, increased employee job satisfaction and reduced the environmental impact from all those commuters. If your agency wants to securely enable telework - or just save money, VMware desktop virtualization is your answer.

    March 02, 2011
  • When it comes to reducing costs and wasteful spending at agencies, IT managers are being leaned on heavily to get the job done. The Navy is moving ahead with its technology efficiency and consolidation initiative by putting the brakes on spending for new servers, server upgrades and data centers. “We are reevaluating what all of [...]

    January 18, 2011
  • IT managers from large agencies and small agencies alike are looking at virtualization to help them save money and streamline processes. On this week’s Ask the CIO program, Kim McCoy, chief information officer at the Bureau of the Public Debt, discussed her agency’s plans in this arena. McCoy told Federal News Radio her agency, along [...]

    December 19, 2010
  • The Department of Homeland Security is hopping on the cloud – for its public websites. Department of Homeland Security Chief Information Officer Richard Spires says the agency is planning to get a public cloud provider…

    October 19, 2010
  • Host John Gilroy discusses the expansion of virtualization with Joe Brown, President, Accelera Solutions. September 28, 2010

    September 27, 2010
  • \"CIOs that are adopting desktop virtualization can be CIOs that can say \'yes\' to things; before they had to say \'no\' because there was no way to manage those devices.\"

    September 16, 2010
  • This week, we bring you a special treat — an extended conversation with Mark White, a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP who works with both the firm’s Federal and Technology practices. He is also the…

    August 09, 2010
  • Who’s using cloud more — the U.S. or Europe? What are the biggest concerns when it comes to security on both sides of the Atlantic? Should you be developing a cloud strategy now, or should…

    August 05, 2010
  • This week, host John Gilroy talks with Andy Lausch of CDW-G. August 3, 2010

    August 03, 2010
  • The conference is going on this week.

    July 14, 2010
  • Tight budgets and increasing capacity demands are driving questions about IT in pure dollar terms, says head of Juniper Federal.

    June 10, 2010