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Managing License Complexity

IBM uses a variety of complex license models making it difficult to maintain license compliance and control software costs. Read the “Managing License Complexity” whitepaper to learn how you can gain control of IBM software licenses.


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Return on Security and Operational Efficiencies in Government Analysis

IANS conducted a Return on Security (ROS) analysis from providers of service to the U.S. Government with highly secure environments and sensitive data. The data yielded showed substantial benefit to the agencies for the cost, both in money and staff time. Download this complimentary whitepaper to learn more about the return on security.


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Leveraging Mobility Trends for Widespread Video Utilization in the Federal Government

With the rapid growth and adaptation of smart phones and wireless devices within the federal government, mobile technology and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) offers increased opportunities for applications such as streaming video to improve collaboration, communication, and productivity. Download this complimentary whitepaper to learn more about mobile video streaming solutions for the government.


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VDI Helps Improve Agency Security, Access Control, and Efficiency

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is an industry term, and it is also sometimes referred to as desktop as a service. VDI addresses the growing challenges and, as a result, is catching on in a big way. Download this whitepaper to read more about how virtual desktops can cut costs and improve uptime.


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How Geospatial is Putting Itself on the Map

Much like Global Positioning Systems (GPS) redefined how people get from A to B when they became commercialized and popularized several years ago, geospatial is changing how the U.S. government operates. Download this special report to learn how geospatial technology helps the government better protect the United States at home and abroad by providing detailed maps of natural and manmade terrain.


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Network Modernization

WAN optimization boosts data traffic across geographic distances. While the primary tools have been around for a decade, agencies are increasingly turning to WAN optimization to speed the delivery of applications from a centralized data center to branch offices, or back up data to an off-site facility. Read more to learn the benefits of WAN optimization.


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Exalogic for Dummies

“Exalogic for Dummies” outlines Exalogic Elastic Cloud computing and how it’s engineered for performance and high availability. It also explains how hardware and software integration ensures system success. Download to learn more!


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EO 13514 and Smart Federal Government Data Center Management

EO 13514 has made the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions a priority. Federal agency data centers need to perform more efficiently and reduce energy usage. This white paper examines data center management measurement, use and saving of energy in relation to the goals established by EO 13514.


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IT Schedule 70 Contract Guide

IT Schedule 70 is an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple Award Schedule(MAS) contract. It is the largest procurement vehicle and the most widely-used acquisition offering in the federal government, offering a comprehensive array of state-ofthe-art IT products, services, and solutions through more than 5,000 contract holders. Download this custom report to learn how agencies are tapping into the IT Schedule 70 for cloud, mobility, cybersecurity, and other emerging technology needs.


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A Balanced Approach:The Shift to Integrated Security Capabilities

This whitepaper outlines the benefits of an integrated approach to security—where people, processes and technology integrate and collaborate using technology that delivers network analysis, host analysis and large-scale data auditing—all in a single platform.


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Information Sharing

Changing agency mindsets on information sharing from “need to know” to “need to share” has been as hard as was expected. Though there have been stumbles along the way, government finally seems to be getting there.


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The Economics of Scale-Out Storage

Scale-out storage technologies have rapidly gained popularity over the past several years, successfully crossing the chasm from niche technology to mainstream enterprise solutions. As this shift occurs, an increasing number of enterprises are seeking to understand the advantages of the newer technology when it comes to the storage of exploding amounts of unstructured data.


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Continuous Monitoring, Remediation and CyberScope Reporting

To assist federal agencies with the implementation of CyberScope reporting, IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager, built on BigFix technology, provides insight and control for endpoints with streamlined, automated capabilities for continuously monitoring and remediating security compliance.


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Optimizing Data Storage in Federal Government Data Centers

Data center managers face an inescapable perfect storm of requirements related to the management and security of mission-critical and mission-essential data. With IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data, storage administrators can build a dynamic storage infrastructure that meets today’s data challenges, while providing the flexibility to meet changing requirements.


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Research Report: Information Security

Government executives expressed widespread concern about data leakage, whether caused by malicious actions or accidental missteps, according to an online survey of 209 executives, conducted by 1105 Government Information Group Content Solutions, although few of those surveyed believe their current agency data protection measures fail to measure up. Download this research report to learn the results of this survey.


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Managing Big Data

Traditional techniques for managing and getting useful information out of data won’t easily address the current explosion. Big Data is aimed handling all of this, and it’s something government is already grappling with.


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STAND: Data Center Modernization

Data center modernization should be a focus for all agencies that are looking to cut IT costs and improve efficiencies. In this whitepaper, an industry expert of the field explains what the practical aspects of modernization involve, the intangibles that agencies will need to grapple with, and what other capabilities a successful modernization can provide. Download now to learn more.


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Wrangling Big Data to Accelerate Mission-Critical Decision-Making

Big data refers to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of typical tools to capture, store, manage and analyze. By now it’s clear the world is entering a new era of big scale data requirements in which the amount of data processed and stored by all organizations, both in the public and private sectors, is breaking every architectural construct in the storage industry today. Download this whitepaper to learn more about addressing your agency's big data challenges.


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How Unified Communications Can Aid Consolidation, Cloud Services Initiatives

UC solutions offer government organizations the opportunity to reduce costs, enhance productivity and increase mobility. The U.S. government’s ongoing preference for operating expenses over capital investments is likely to lure even diehard organizations with legacy communications infrastructures to hosted UC cloud services.


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Game Changing Technology: WAN Optimization

Wide-area network (WAN) optimization is designed to boost data traffic over long distances. However, with the necessity to improve end-user application performance, but juggle cost-cutting consolidation requirements, challenges mount. In this special report, learn about WAN optimization techniques such as compression, deduplication and traffic prioritization.


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A Strategic Asset: Virtualization

With agency IT budgets under pressure, server virtualization and its proven ability to cut costs and maximize efficiencies has become a standard way of doing things in the data center. Now the focus is switching to the desktop to see if similar gains can be made there.


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Emerging Business Intelligence Tool Trends

Business Intelligence - turning measurements into actionable information - is a crucial tool for performance management and optimization. Readers will learn about the key challenges agencies face in accessing and analyzing data.


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Wireless Solutions for Government Networks

Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) wireless solutions are an ideal way to backhaul video imaging systems for public safety and surveillance purposes, national security and intelligence. This whitepaper will explore the vital role that wireless solutions play for government agencies.


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Rugged Demand Grows Despite Budget Worries

Though still a niche market, rugged IT will take on a different role as mobile and portable systems take more prominence in agency planning. The effect of likely budget cuts is unclear, but longer-term changes to systems procurement will affect rugged vendors, maybe for the better.


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Research Report: Cloud Computing

Cloud adoption is on the rise. Nearly four out of 10 respondents to a recent survey has either adopted cloud computing or are in the process of adopting it for at least one process or application. As they have learned more about cloud computing, they have gained a more mature perspective on the benefits and risks. In this research report, learn more about those benefits, which type of cloud is most popular and what is their biggest concern.


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The Telco Acronyms Guide

The first edition of The Telco Acronyms Guide, is a handy guide to help you decipher the telecom industry’s acronym alphabet soup. Inside, you’ll find over 2,000 entries!


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The Next-Generation Network IPS

THE EVIDENCE IS ALARMING: The intrusion detection and prevention systems that currently protect most enterprise IT environments from malicious penetration, surveillance, and data theft are woefully underprepared for the latest attack methods. Read this white paper to learn how to find and deploy a new generation of security.


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Taming the Paper Beast at Veterans Affairs

The Core Values and Core Characteristics of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs demand highly efficient and accurate business processes that can serve Veterans quickly and adjust to the resources and communication capabilities with which each Veteran is most comfortable. Read this white paper and learn how document capture driven business process automation enables this level of efficiency in processing Veterans’ claims, enabling VA to better service the needs of Veterans and adhere to its Core Values (“I CARE”).


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Physical Infrastructure Considerations for Data Center Consolidation

As federal agencies work to meet data center consolidation goals, it is important to consider the role of the physical infrastructure. This paper defines ways to optimize your agency's physical infrastructure to support critical consolidation efforts.


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Technology Considerations to Leverage Sustainable Building Design

Gain insight into core technology decisions needed to successfully design and deploy a sustainable, smart building that delivers tangible infrastructure and business process improvements, as well as increased operational efficiencies.


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Creating an Optimal Cloud Computing Strategy for Government

Learn why it is critical for government agencies to have a cloud-computing strategy. Read this Cisco white paper to see how a comprehensive architectural approach can help you design an effective, secure cloud-based model that best suits your needs.


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Changing the Network Visibility Game

Network visibility enables organization to understand what is happening on their networks and how all the parts work together. It provides a reliable method for consolidating systems, adding security and saving money. Learn about the challenges and solutions facing IT managers in this special report.


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Better Data, Better Health

With healthcare reform now a priority, emphasizing efficiency in the delivery of care and a need to move faster is at the forefront of the healthcare system. IT is recognized as a key lever to reducing costs and raising quality in healthcare. Learn more about health analytics and new healthcare models in this special report.


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Application Performance Management in Federal I.T. Management Reform

In federal agencies, IT is being asked to do more with less, while also ensuring transparency, improving citizen services, enhancing performance and increasing accountability. Learn how federal IT used leading APM tools to address these challenges.


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Carrier Ethernet As An Enabler Of Net-Centric Communications

This paper examines how the insertion of a Layer 2 switching capability, based on carrier-class Ethernet, can improve the overall security of network services and reduce overall risk to the warfighter.


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THINK Cloud Security

Read this whitepaper to learn how cloud service brokers simplify cloud security integration and implementation


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Cloud Computing: Game Changing Technology to Meet Agency Missions

Although cloud computing can help the federal government achieve lower cost, more efficient IT operations, there’s still much confusion surrounding these services in public sector environments. In this report, learn more about cloud deployment models, best practices and top predictions for 2012.


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Strengthening Our Nation's Security by Building a Trusted Identity Environment

Read this white paper and learn how your agency can dissuade credential abuse while helping customs, border management and law enforcement organizations ensure the safety and security of citizens and workers.


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Innovation Matters: Rapidly Deploying Cost-Effective, Energy-Efficient Data Centers

Download this informative how-to-guide and learn innovative tactics for deploying high performing data centers which can enable agency and IT growth.


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Improve Business Performance in a Project-Intensive World

This white paper examines how project trends have a direct impact on project performance as well as overall business performance, and look at the areas of project management that executives at project-driven organizations must focus on in order to address these challenges.


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Rewriting the Rules of Patch Management

IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager helps organizations automatically manage patches for multiple operating systems and applications across hundreds of thousands of endpoints regardless of location, connection type or status.


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The Smarter Supply Chain of the Future - Chief Supply Chain Officer Study

Discover how to leverage advanced analytics to help your agency address challenges such as risk, visibility, globalization and cost containment in this newly-released whitepaper.


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Optimizing the Data Center for Today’s Federal Government

This whitepaper provides an overview of key drivers for data center optimization in the federal government.


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Storage Efficiency for Dummies – eBook Guide

Budget issues are not the only struggle agencies encounter. Efficiently managing data - and for the least cost - can also be a challenge.


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Planning and Design for Smarter Cities

With IBM Rational solutions, cities and their partners are merging physical and digital assets in an interconnected and intelligent way to create a citizen-centered approach and make the smarter city vision a reality.


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Delivering Stakeholder-Centric Services: From Strategy To Execution

This analyst white paper describes the challenges of transforming to stakeholder-centric or citizen-centric service delivery, and highlights the crucial roles that key business and IT capabilities play for any public sector organization.


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AMD Creates a Private Cloud to Increase its Own Productivity, Lower Costs and Maintain its Position as Industry Innovator

AMD creates a private cloud to increase its own productivity, improve accessibility, lower costs and maintain its position as industry innovator.


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Creating Value in the Public Sector: Intelligent Project Selection in the US Federal Government

A new report sponsored by Oracle and researched by the Economist Intelligence Unit highlights how federal agencies are refining project management practices after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found multiple areas within agencies where programs were duplicated and funds could be saved.


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Building a Private Cloud Network for the Government Data Center

Download this solution brief to learn how to obtain the benefits of a cloud-like data center infrastructure, while addressing the challenges of complexity, latency, security, and interoperability.


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Three Demographic Mega-Trends to Transform the Aerospace and Defense Workforce

Is your organization positioned to weather the major workforce shift that will transform the composition of the aerospace and defense industry? Gain insight on resource management capabilities that can help you maximize the use of the available talent pool while planning for the future.