Outdated finance and human capital management systems are typically difficulty to both maintain and secure. The public sector should consider cloud-based shared services for efficient modernization with flexible pay-as-you-go options for upgrades, maintenance, security and disaster recovery. Watch this video to see how switching to a shared services model encourages continuous innovation and quality service.Read… Read more »
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This video will discuss best practices for easing the transition to hybrid cloud and reaping the benefits.
This video highlights vaccines distribution as a use case for how cloud can help agencies meet complex and pressing challenges.
This video looks at how agencies can make collaboration more simple and secure — and enable leaps in productivity.
In this free, five-minute video, you’ll learn how your agency can build a better cloud migration strategy.
Learn how managing a multi-cloud environment with the right tools and resources can make the job easier.
Check out this free video and learn how shifting to a hybrid cloud operating model can relieve you of a lot of administrative tasks associated with IT management.
Check out this free six-minute online course and learn why the answer may be to create a hybrid cloud environment with a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) at the foundation.
Learn how an open hybrid cloud can help you avoid common hybrid cloud pitfalls without sacrificing any of the benefits.
Hit play, and in just under seven minutes learn how to better secure your cloud-native environment.
Learn about the strategies, policies and technologies agencies need in place to prevent their assets from attacks in the modern era of cloud security.
This three lesson course explains what cloud-ready networks are and how they help agencies.
Take seven minutes to learn what an application delivery controller (ADC) is and how it works.
Learn about the role of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) as the foundation for an on-premise, cloud-ready environment.
Take a look at the pros and cons of public cloud and on-premise solutions — and at the potential for a hybrid solution.
In this course, you will learn how automating the compliance authorization process can help agencies adopt secure IT resources in a timely manner.
More than ever, state and local government needs modern technology that makes it easier to manage critical applications and deliver the modern services that citizens expect. And government IT departments need to do that without creating an even more complex IT ecosystem. To meet these challenges, some agencies turned to hyperconverged infrastructure solutions that combineRead… Read more »
Government IT departments are largely in charge of acquiring, deploying and managing the many systems that support these new applications and services. But they have challenges of their own including managing increasingly complex IT environments, confronting a growing volume of service requests, and learning new skills and procedures to keep pace with the latest technologies.Read… Read more »
With the advent of human-genome sequencing, healthcare providers are looking for more ways to personalize the care they administer to patients. When providers can access patient sequence results quickly, analyze the data, and then provide a custom care plan—or even custom medication— it increases the opportunity for successful treatment. This course will walk you throughRead… Read more »
Within higher education, IT is increasingly being used to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness, through activities such as automation, personalization, mobile access, outsourcing, shared services, and process improvement. However, acquiring and leveraging innovative technologies like cloud, mobile and virtualization can be challenging for many universities and colleges. Clearly, higher education must find ways to leverage innovativeRead… Read more »
Increasingly, agencies are leveraging software-defined data centers and placing them in partnered clouds. This course explains the value of VMware software-defined data centers and why they are best leveraged in the AWS Cloud. We also walk through steps to get started in your migration.
Learn how your agency can leverage new solutions to move forward and meet citizen demands.
Cloud computing can offer innumerable benefits to government agencies, but ensuring they are securely implemented and maintained is challenging. However, the cloud offers something that can eliminate many these complexities: automation. Automating the deployment, configuration and monitoring of security can deliver predictable, repeatable, and reliable compliance and security. This course explores how compliance automation canRead… Read more »
In three lessons, we’ll define hybrid cloud infrastructure, differentiate the model from more traditional IT management approaches, and discuss the benefits that hybrid cloud can bring to defense agencies. Then, we will provide best practices to implement hybrid cloud infrastructure in government.
In this course, we discuss and dispel the five common myths associated with cloud-enabled backup and recovery.
In three lessons, this course examines the role of a third-party assessment organization (3PAOs) as an advisor to help agencies and cloud service providers work together to build and document FedRAMP-compliant environments.
In this course, we explain how virtualization allows agencies to create digital workspaces. We also examine what those digital workspaces look like, how they empower employees, and what agencies require to deploy new workloads in these environments.
In three lessons, we explain how defense agencies can leverage hybrid cloud to store, access and analyze vast amounts of data. We examine the challenges the Defense Department faces to creating data mobility and we describe how hybrid cloud can help eliminate those obstacles.
In three lessons, this course examines the drivers for enhanced communication in government, as well as the barriers that prevent many agencies from reaching their goals. We also outline the capabilities that every agency needs to move forward, and describe how UC-as-a-service brings those capabilities to bear.
In this course, we examine why agencies have to modernize and the obstacles they often encounter in that pursuit. We also dive into the benefits of hyperconvergence, including how it can transform data centers and prepare agencies for the next step in their modernization journey.
In three lessons, we’ll define serverless computing, differentiate serverless computing from other cloud models, such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and outline the benefits that this model can provide to the public sector.
In six lessons, this course examines the unique cloud needs of the public sector. We also explain how Microsoft Azure Government can meet those needs and help agencies make the most of cloud computing.
In ten minutes, we’ll discuss how hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) integrates into a cloud strategy, requirements for strategic success, and how agencies can improve mission velocity using operational best practices.
This course is intended for anyone who wants to better understand hybrid cloud computing. In three lessons, we’ll define hybrid cloud, differentiate the model from other computing models, and discuss the benefits that hybrid cloud can bring to government
If you’re a government leader wondering if your agency is ready for the cloud, then this is the right course to help you get some answers.
Welcome to the GovLoop Academy IT-as-a-Service course, where you will learn about three cloud service delivery models, how they are different, and what they can do for your agency. By taking this course, you will be enrolled in five different lessons about IT-as-a-Service. We’ll cover what we mean by that term, providing a broad overviewRead… Read more »
This 30-minute course is designed to get you up to speed on Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud offerings. We’ll be discussing cloud computing and how your public sector organization can best use the cloud to provide information and reach new horizons for citizens services and mission critical agency efforts. By taking this course, you will be enrolledRead… Read more »
Cloud is a common buzzword in the IT world, and in our daily lives we use the cloud to do everything from check email, to access work files, to online shopping. But most people don’t consider the details of what’s happening behind the scenes to give us anytime, anywhere access to data and services. WeRead… Read more »
In the information technology world, few buzzwords are more mystical than “cloud computing.” Sure, we use the cloud to access email, health records and work files, and to do online shopping, but most people don’t consider the details of what’s happening behind the scenes to give us anytime, anywhere access to data and services. WeRead… Read more »
Over the last few years, many government organizations have made the switch to the cloud, including GSA, the Department of Interior, the states of Maryland and Utah and cities of Orlando and Pittsburgh. One of the most recent organizations to transition to the cloud is the U.S Holocaust Museum, and they did it all inRead… Read more »