Government

Today’s federal IT shops face a growing need to serve users and constituents, one that can be hard to stay ahead of. The amount of data to gather, process, and consume is overwhelming, and increases each day. Agencies have to modernize the infrastructure to support and secure data in order to stay a…

The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain. — Commander Montgomery Scott, on sabotaging the much-ballyhooed, transwarp-capable USS Excelsior. Scotty crippled the newer Starfleet vessel so that the renegade Admiral James Kirk and his small band of loyal companio…

By now you’ve probably heard that Cisco’s new, intent-driven network brings you the capability to monitor encrypted network traffic for malware, without decrypting it. But maybe you aren’t clear on just what that means or why it matters. Simon Blissett, writing on Cisco’s Financial Services blog cha…

I was walking through an airport today and I saw the familiar sight: Two dozen Airmen checking in and loading out to some new destination, or maybe returning home from a tour of duty overseas. I was taken back to my own former life as a leader in a far-off land – we were 30 guys depending on equipme…

Formula 1 racing is a highly controlled, technical masterpiece. It demands expert drivers, finely-tuned race cars, top-notch pit crews and world class tracks to draw 300 million viewers per race. But notice: The drivers drive the same car in every race, at every venue. They don’t build a new car for…

Change can be daunting and smart city achievements are complex. Where does one even begin? Sometimes, it needs to be as simple as just getting started. Earlier this summer, alongside 28,000 excited Cisco Live attendees, the City of Las Vegas proudly announced teaming up with networking giant Cisco t…

When I examined President Trump’s cybersecurity executive order, I focused on two things: What it really means and what are its most important aspects. Formally titled the Presidential Executive Order on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure, the order was i…

Although cloud security has improved tremendously over the years, public cloud still gives some federal IT managers pause. To at least some federal IT managers, the idea of trusting sensitive data to a public cloud provider is not much more appealing than spending a night in an abandoned house while…

What will cities look like in the future? With the birth of Machine Learning, explosion in Artificial Intelligence and our increasingly Tech-Centric culture, they may look much different than most people expect. And the process of planning them will as well. But one things for sure – they will be sm…