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New! Special Report: Health Care Technology
An injection of $19 billion in federal funding for healthcare initiatives, via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, will enable government healthcare organizations to leverage technology to improve both the quality and access to healthcare services nationwide.
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New! Special Report: Networx
Networx is designed to improve the productivity of staff and the efficiencies of your agency's telecommunications services.
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New! SEWP Contract Guide
SEWP IV is a Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) authorized by OMB. SEWP IV is an IT IDIQ, firm fixed price contract set to run through 2014 with a ceiling of $5.6 billion.
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New! Data Solutions Report
Government organizations must overcome hefty challenges to meet evolving IT mission goals in 2009 as the impact of the ongoing economic crisis, along with wars overseas and an extensive economic stimulus program are complicating their efforts to modernize, consolidate and transform data center operations.
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New! Economic Stimulus Guide
As the federal government quickly works to distribute funds via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, much still remains unclear about how agencies and departments will appropriate funding, while simultaneously achieving transparency and regulatory compliance.
Economic stimulus package appropriations total $787.2 billion, with key funding initiatives to support technology, science and research, infrastructure improvements, education, energy, healthcare and training. Spending provisions within ARRA require agencies to have projects under way within 120 days of enactment, dramatically shortening the typical two year business development timeline.
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New! Managed Services
It seems everyone has their definition of Managed Services. But most would agree: A Managed Service is one delivered by a third party to a person or organization based on a defined contracted service level agreement (SLA). Learn more by Viewing or Downloading the Entire Report Here...
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New! Cybersecurity Insights
Government organizations face ongoing pressure to improve security to reduce risk and comply with regulatory mandates, although those efforts can quickly deplete constrained resources. Under a new presidential administration, federal agencies are clearly seeking new ways to integrate risk, compliance and security, to reduce both cost and complexity, while maintaining strong, secure uninterrupted access to government resources and applications. View or Download Entire Report
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New! GWACs Buyer's Guide
IT buyers like Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) because hardware, software, related supplies and services can be bought as part of an integrated technology solution without having to spend the time and money to go through a “full and open” competition. View or Download Entire Report |
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June Special Report - Procurement
For IT, the process can be as simple as making a phone call and giving a government authorized credit card number. Or it can be as complex as issuing line after line of detailed requirements and then evaluating competing offers from hundreds of vetted suppliers. Both are types of Procurement.. View or Download Entire Report |
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June Special Report - Alliant Contract Guide
Alliant is a 10-year MA/IDIQ GWAC contract with a base period of five years, one five-year option and a contract ceiling of $50 billion. Learn more by Viewing or Downloading the Entire Report
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June Special Report - CHESS Contract Guide
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June Special Report - Virtual Desktop
Ask an IT manager whether they would like to manage 1,000 individual desktop images, each housed on an individual desktop they have to physically touch and maintain? Or whether they would rather manage one desktop “golden image” with various user profiles housed behind the firewall in the data center where applications and security are directed remotely; and updates are downloaded quickly without physical contact?... View or Download Entire Report |
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May Special Report - Cloud Computing
To evangelists it is “going where no man has gone before”; to skeptics it just “puts us behind the 8-ball to secure data”; and to many IT vets, it is “déjà vous all over again” taking us back to the days of mainframes and dumb terminals. To Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, Cloud Computing is fundamental to the technology strategy being developed by the Obama Administration of how to get more efficiency from IT, while expanding applications and reducing costs...View or Download Entire Report |
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May Special Report - Efficient Technology Solutions
A heightened awareness of IT power consumption, the increasing use of high performance, high-density computing technologies and legislative mandates such as the economic stimulus plan are working to improve data center efficiency and driving greater energy conservation, government-wide... View or Download Entire Report |
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May Special Report - Smartphones and PDAs
Smartphones and PDAs are gaining traction among a range of federal audiences as agencies and departments seek to enable greater mobility, to boost responsiveness for COOP, improve information-sharing, enhance productivity and track as well as manage valuable assets...View or Download Entire Report |
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April Special Report - Solutions for Transparent Gov
(This is) “a leading indicator of what you can expect from this administration in terms of engaging citizens, making sure that we put information out there in the public domain and a different worldview of what it means to be a citizen.... [What] the idea of citizenship in terms of civic participation and transparency or open government allows you to do is to embrace the notion that the government is about we the people and that it's taxpayer dollars that are being spent,” declared Federal CIO Vivek Kundra.... View or Download Full Report |
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April Special Report - Storage Management
Within the federal government, most agencies and departments are quite accustomed to dealing with enormous amounts of information that must be efficiently managed and maintained, no matter what it's function or form (structured or unstructured, classified or open for public consumption.) ...View or Download Full Report |
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April Special Report - VoIP
“There are some things you need to think about and you should try to deal with,” Whitaker cautioned. “When you are converging voice and data on the same data infrastructure, if there are issues with that data infrastructure, your voice can be down.” That is a big no-no when it comes to making the business case for VoIP to senior executives.... View or Download Full Report |
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April Special Report - Information Sharing & Analysis
Today, while many observers may cast doubt on the success of this initiative so far, others claim information sharing is gaining traction among a range of federal audiences via the advent of technologies such as social media/social networking, cloud computing and software as a service....View or Download Full Report |
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April Special Report - Rugged IT
Warfighters, law enforcement and first responders set the real life specifications. Engineers then build to meet the ruggedized needs of the specific environment. Ask a computer user to say the first thing that comes to mind when they hear the word “rugged”, they often respond “Toughbook”. That's for good reason: the Toughbook® by Panasonic has been a proven notebook serving the “rugged IT” needs of military and civilian users for as long as notebooks have been around. But today, Panasonic is not alone in the rugged notebook market...View or Download Full Report |
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April Special Report - Alliant Small Business
“The Alliant Small Business Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (Alliant SB GWAC) is a competitive multiple award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) set-aside small business contract. The contract is designed to provide worldwide IT solutions to federal agencies while strengthening opportunities in federal contracting for small businesses.”...View or Download Full Report |
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March Special Report: PEO-EIS Catalog View or Download Full Report
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March Special Report - IP Telephony
In a perfect world – especially when it comes to security – it would be nice to have the funds to build and maintain dedicated networks that carry only voice or only video or only data. But transport efficiencies, advancing technologies and today’s fiscal climate are demanding not three networks, but one network that can handle your organization’s unified voice, video and data communications requirements... View or Download Full Report |
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March Special Report - Virtualization and Consolidation
Amid daily reports of hacker attacks and data leakage incidents, proliferating regulatory requirements that are sometimes in conflict have created an overwhelming compliance challenge for federal government agencies and departments to overcome... View or Download Full Report
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March Special Report - Security Directives and Compliance
Consolidating the workloads of multiple underutilized servers onto a single server platform using virtualization solutions can increase utilization, consolidate resources, provide greater availability and system flexibility as well as end-to-end management. View or Download Full Report
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February Special Report - Mobile Convergence
Mobile converged services will deliver media - voice, data and video- to your office and/or handheld device, anytime, anywhere... View or Download Full Report |

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February Special Report - Server Room
Information availability is - and will always be - king in government. So, telling your bosses, colleagues and constituents the data they want to access and the information they need is not available is not an option. They don't care about server utilization or temperature “hot spots”. View or Download Full Report
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