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From the Cloud First policy established in 2010 to last year’s Cloud Smart update, it’s clear the government is driving federal agencies toward cloud computing. The strategy makes sense, but for agencies migrating, however, the decision is less clear cut, because there are several options agencies can choose based on…
By Joe Kim, SolarWinds EVP, Engineering and Global CTO Last year, hybrid IT was the new black, at least according to the SolarWinds 2016 Public Sector IT Trends Report. In surveying 116 public sector IT professionals, we found that agencies are actively moving much of their infrastructure to the cloud, while still keeping…
A lot of government environments are offline and air-gapped, requiring the use of the offline activation/deactivation process. It would be very beneficial to have the ability to invoke the offline deactivation process using the migration.exe tool in cases where the web console may not be functioning properly. We have run…
We call them Technology Briefings or Tech Days, and the SolarWinds Government and Education team has held them for many years. They originated in 2014 as physical events in the San Antonio area, where we have a good number of military customers. We’d send our senior sales engineers from Austin to spend the day with…
Would like to see Microsoft Teams Integration with 365 Government Licenses.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed the NIST 800-171 framework to set guidelines and security requirements for protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). The latest version three (V3) brings significant revisions impacting organizations' handling of CUI. In this blog, I'll explore…
By Paul Parker, SolarWinds Federal & National Government Chief Technologist Here is an interesting article from my colleague Joe Kim, in which he explores database heath and performance. Part of the problem with managing databases is that many people consider database health and performance to be one and the same, but…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s another interesting article with suggestions about how agencies might approach legacy application modernization and cloud adoption using MGT Act funds. Picking the “best” apps and systems will certainly increase success rates, and SolarWinds systems…
Modern application development requires more work to ensure the development path and the data it produces are fully in sync, secure, optimized and error-free. This responsibility has increasingly fallen upon application developers. They’re being asked to double as database administrators to maintain fluidity in the process…
Container technology is catching on big-time in the federal government as agencies such as the USDA and the National Institutes of Health look to containers to simplify software development and reduce costs. Containers offer enormous advantages over traditional “waterfall” application development processes. A containerized…
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