Top Five Ways the Cloud is Evolving in 2013
Top Five Ways the Cloud is Evolving in 2013 By Aimee Cutshaw, DMG Federal As the cloud continues to remain a hot topic in 2013, the way federal agencies and commercial organizations use these services will continue to evolve. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), a leading marketing intelligence organization, “worldwide revenue from public IT [...]
5 Government Tech Trends
5 Government Tech Trends by Aimee Cutshaw, DMG Federal Last year provided exponential advances in technology for the government. On May 23, 2012, President Obama issued a directive entitled “Building a 21st Century Digital Government” and the Administration launched a comprehensive Digital Government Strategy aimed at delivering better digital services to the American people. The [...]
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Document-centric Data Management
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Document-centric Data Management by Bill Munson, DMG Federal The old-school, “document-centric” process of creating and managing project data in documents (e.g., requirements documents, designs, and test plans) is obsolete. Duplication of effort (lack of reuse), difficulty in automating data maintenance, poor data consistency, and other issues constantly affect data quality, [...]
Implementing Configuration Management Using Enterprise Architecture
Implementing Configuration Management Using Enterprise Architecture By Bill Munson In my previous Configuration Management (CM) blog, “Why Configuration Managers Should Rule the World”, we looked at CM as the best approach to managing information. We saw that CM is composed of four pillars: Configuration Identification, Change Control, Configuration Status Accounting, and Configuration Audit.1 This time [...]
Business Intelligence SaaS Pros and Cons
Business Intelligence SaaS Pros and Cons By Keith Boyer, DMG Federal New service models have appeared as virtualization has gathered steam and cloud-based systems have become a dominant paradigm in the world of information technology. Cloud-based service models are often denoted “Anything as a Service” or “XaaS” (where X represents whatever is being offered). The [...]