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Whitepaper List


Demystifying Enterprise Service Bus Technology

Mar 18, 2010

The Enterprise Service Bus provides a standards-based enterprise backbone for connectivity of disparate applications. Understand key features, how it facilitates rapid integration, ease of change and provides a coherent SOA architecture, enabling extensibility and incremental ROI.


Mobility Management for Dummies

Mar 10, 2010

Learn how to securely manage your data, devices, and applications… and gain central visibility and control of a wide range of mobile technologies, including iPhone, Blackberry, Google Android, laptops and Windows Mobile smartphones.


Mortal Analyzes Census Information From Data.gov in the Cloud

Mar 09, 2010

Database consultant Fred Friedman recounts his adventures as he successfully uses an easily-shared data analysis platform, in a cloud environment, to analyze U.S. Census Bureau information publicly available on Data.gov. Find out what he learned.


Cloud Computing Implementation Frameworks and SOA

Mar 04, 2010

In today’s rapidly expanding and complex enterprise environment, cloud computing enables dynamic interoperability of information across distributed applications, eliminating the need for communication via central hub, while offering high reliability.


THINK Secure Government

Feb 25, 2010

Public sector IT organizations must take steps to protect citizens, the institution, employees and vital information from cyber attacks. Click here for best practices advice.


Assessing SharePoint’s Strengths and Weaknesses for Bid, Capture and Proposal Management

Feb 25, 2010

Government contractors seeking to increase top-line revenues must streamline their capture and proposal processes so they can bid more business, efficiently collaborate with teaming partners, and meet stringent turnaround times. Many contractors consider SharePoint as a document management solution for bid, capture and proposal management operations. However, is a SharePoint-only solution right for your organization?


Cyber Threat Intelligence

Feb 25, 2010

In 2008, The White House issued a Cyber Security Policy Review, profiling the systemic loss of intellectual property and data theft as high as one trillion dollars. An underground economy has evolved around stealing, packaging, and reselling your information. When criminal enterprises have no problem stealing your data, Deloitte can help.


Transparency, Accountability Drive Government's Growing Earned Value Requirements

Feb 22, 2010

In government contracting, disciplined criteria and cost management is required to ensure the federal government can somehow answer the fundamental question, "What did we get for the money?" Government contractors understand the project management and fiscal discipline required to comply with federal regulations are best achieved via the implementation of formal Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS). This is also why the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Department of Defense (DoD) now require EVM on all performance-based contracts in excess of $20 million. Download this whitepaper to learn more!


Solving Network Problems Before They Occur

Feb 17, 2010

The Essentials Series: Solving Network Problems Before They Occur discusses common solutions to environment problems—before they occur. Relating personal experiences from his long history in IT, author Greg Shields offers a look at network integrations from SNMP to WMI to configuration control and reveals the necessity for a complete solution.


PC Power Management: Save Energy Costs Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Feb 17, 2010

Learn how PC power management software from Verdiem can reduce PC energy costs by 30 to 60 percent, significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and enhance IT desktop patch management and security. This presents Federal agencies with a “low hanging fruit” solution to get a fast start on conforming to President Obama’s Executive Order #13514 focused on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic performance.


Stop the Advanced Persistent Threat: Best Approaches for Desktop Lockdown

Feb 10, 2010

The explosion in malware and cyber attacks underline a stark reality: our adversaries are becoming increasingly sophisticated and their target is moving beyond our government to trusted technology providers and companies. Download this Microsoft MVP authored whitepaper to learn how to enforce a white list of approved software to prevent targeted attacks and overcome the Advanced Persistent Threat.


Stop the Advanced Persistent Threat: Best Approaches for Desktop Lockdown

Feb 10, 2010

The explosion in malware and cyber attacks underline a stark reality: our adversaries are becoming increasingly sophisticated and their target is moving beyond our government to trusted technology providers and companies. Download this Microsoft MVP authored whitepaper to learn how to enforce a white list of approved software to prevent targeted attacks and overcome the Advanced Persistent Threat.


The iPhone is Here to Stay – What’s an Enterprise to do About it?

Feb 03, 2010

As the iPhone’s popularity drives its adoption in the enterprise, IT’s challenge is to ensure the right balance between security and productivity. With Sybase mobility solutions, enterprises can deploy a future-proof mobile strategy.


Introducing the Windows Azure Platform - An Early Look at Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and .NET Services

Feb 01, 2010

Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform is a group of cloud technologies, each providing a specific set of services to application developers. As Figure 1 shows, the Windows Azure platform can be used both by applications running in the cloud and by applications running on local systems.


Gaining a Performance Edge with a Column-based DBMS

Jan 28, 2010

David Loshin describes how a column-oriented data platform overcomes the limitations of traditional databases for complex analytics and reporting. He makes the case for dramatic improvements in query performance and scalability over row-based systems.


Leaping Forward: SQL Server 2008 Compared to Oracle Database 11g

Jan 27, 2010

Microsoft SQL Server has steadily gained ground on other database systems and now surpasses the competition in terms of performance, scalability, security, developer productivity, business intelligence (BI), and compatibility with the 2007 Microsoft Office System.


Why Convert to a SAASM Based GPS Timing Receiver

Jan 26, 2010

Learn how to acquire encrypted, Military GPS-code, and no longer depend on jammed civil GPS code.


Reduce management costs with secure, scalable cloud computing

Jan 26, 2010

Why house all agency data and applications onsite and get bogged down with the associated administrative costs? Turn to IBM® cloud computing. Read the white paper “Key Infrastructure Elements for Cloud Computing” and see how you can provide your agency with secure, seamless access to the information they need. Read the white paper.


Improve service, reduce costs and manage risks with a dynamic infrastructure

Jan 26, 2010

As instrumentation and interconnectivity accelerate, the demand for greater accessibility and availability rises as well. Make sure your agency’s infrastructure is up to the task. Read the IBM® white paper “Dynamic Infrastructure Helping Build a Smarter Planet — Delivering Superior Business and IT Services with Agility and Speed.” Read the white paper.


Building resiliency and security into a dynamic infrastructure

Jan 26, 2010

A dynamic infrastructure that overlooks resiliency and security concerns could leave your agency vulnerable. Read the Clabby Analytics research brief “Don’t Overlook Business Resiliency and Security When Building a Dynamic Infrastructure” to see how the IBM® strategy for a dynamic infrastructure can help empower and protect federal agencies. Read the research brief.


Opening Data, Opening Government

Jan 22, 2010

The Open Government Directive requires every federal agency to open its data streams to the public---but with outdated legacy systems, that can be harder than ever. Learn how data silo ‘mashers’ can provide real-time connectivity throughout an agency network.


Performance Matters: Towards Transparent, Accountable, and Effective Delivery of Public Services

Jan 21, 2010

Read this strategy paper from the Center for Digital Government explaining why performance matters in public services, where objectives must be delivered in a transparent, accountable and effective way.


Public Sector Budget Formulation Software Designed By Former Public Sector Budget Officers

Jan 21, 2010

Are you finding that budgeting can be an arduous process when it involves disparate, point solutions and inconsistent data? SAP software for public budget formulation, designed by former public sector officers, is scalable and integrated software that addresses end-to-end public sector budget formulation.


Maximizing the Value of Economic Stimulus Funds

Jan 21, 2010

Learn how to meet the challenges facing your agency with respect to the recent stimulus plan. Accept the government's challenge to maintain your focus on developing programs that achieve long-term results for constituents, while ensuring that these programs adhere to the complex requirements for stimulus funds.


Best Practices for Establishing Effective Archive Policies

Jan 14, 2010

Learn how your organization can avoid retaining everything indefinitely, yet be confident that they are keeping all the records they need for a reasonable and legally defensible period.


A New Approach for Large-Scale Data Management and Data Analysis

Jan 08, 2010

Now there is a whole new architecture for data management and data analysis by allowing analytic applications to be pushed down into Aster Data’s massively parallel processing (MPP) database so applications are now co-located with the data itself.


Putting Open Source to the Test: The Making of JBoss Enterprise Middleware

Dec 22, 2009

JBoss Enterprise Middleware teams continually harden and transform open source technology projects into enterprise software products — then deliver it with top-notch support and mission-critical SLAs. Here’s how it’s done.


Cyberwar: Sabotaging the System -- Managing Network-Centric Risks and Regulations

Dec 17, 2009

This whitepaper highlights the growing threats facing governments and organizations from criminal cyber attacks by drawing from the 60 Minutes interview presented on November 8, 2009 and how ArcSight provides industry leading security and compliance management solutions to fight cybercrime.


Open Source, Red Hat, and Security

Dec 15, 2009

This whitepaper highlights the advanced security features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, addresses how Red Hat measures security, and presents the results from an evaluation of the security status and performance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.


Meeting Government Security and Regulatory Goals through Network Access Control

Nov 12, 2009

In this paper, Frost & Sullivan forecast government cyber-security spending, the evolution of government networks and their specific challenges, and outlines how NAC addresses agency specific security measures to counter them. The paper also covers areas that impact ROI, and the cost of inadequate security measures.


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