5/23
When virtual desktops first hit the IT scene, the most often cited driver for deploying it was cost savings. That’s a good reason and is still driving agencies to deploy virtual desktop solutions, but new motivations have risen to the top lately. I had a fireside chat with FDIC CIO Russ Pittman at the Meritalk Mobile Work Exchange recently and he cited two reasons that I have been hearing a lot more lately: Security and a single interface for all types of endpoint devices. The second one also comes with an IT motivation because enabling mobile users with VDI offers the back end administrators a much simpler and more consolidated management.
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5/7
I’ve pointed out the importance of backup and recovery a time or two before, discussing how it shouldn’t be an afterthought — it appears I’m not alone.
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4/18
I love Hadoop. There, I said it. Seriously — and it’s not just because of the cute yellow elephant mascot.
Map-Reduce is a great idea, and Hadoop is the best product using it. The possibilities, especially for government agencies, are nearly limitless. These organizations are sitting on mountainous goldmines of data! They all want to make it open. They all want to process it faster and act upon it. But making the ROI case for the investment in big data technology like Hadoop is understandably required to persuade the upper echelons to buy in.
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3/20
The common use for tools such as Riverbed’s Cascade line of network monitoring and reporting tools is to catch performance issues before they hamper the user’s ability to operate. However, there is a new use for this technology in the federal government — and it makes petabytes of sense.
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2/21
How can government agencies get the biggest bang for their buck while still achieving fast restore times? The answer lies in the perfect blend of block-based and integrated virtualized backup solutions for each agency’s mission needs.
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