DLT Whitepapers

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An Ivy League University searched for a highly reliable, available, and scalable storage solution to help manage data intensive research projects, such as DNA sequencing. The flexibility and reliability of Red Hat Storage Software Appliance has enabled the Institute to achieve the growth needed to continue its research programs.

This whitepaper discusses the importance of taking a unified approach to service support management, describes the main principles of this approach, discusses what to look for in a service support solution and presents the resulting benefits.

This page explores SolarWinds Server and Application Management (SAM) tool which is a readily available toolset that IT shops leverage to become more proactive instead of reactive.

This whitepaper is the follow up to the Red Hat Storage Webcast.  Exploring the economic advantages of scale-out storage is the focus of this paper. After briefly defining scale-out storage we discuss, in turn, the capital, operational and strategic advantages of scale-out storage solutions.

This whitepaper explains how the public sector can use Zenoss to manage their physical, virtual and cloud-based infrastructures more efficiently and cost-effectively.

This white paper will explore ways to easily and efficiently test for and fix application compatibility issues and discuss how it will save organizations an incredible amount of time while reducing costs and risks

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 offers a superior balance of enterprise virtualization management features, performance, and scalability for Linux and Windows workloads, at a fraction of the cost.

Oracle Exalogic is an engineered hardware and software solution that provides highly integrated and optimized middleware application components. By incorporating scalability, performance, partitioning and ease-of-management to enable consolidation, it is the world’s best foundation for cloud

This informative whitepaper discusses the seven laws that companies are applying today to give mobile employees a competitive advantage.

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization:  Competitive Pricing Guide compares the pricing of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) with the pricing of VMware vSphere5 for server virtualization.

Please register to view this new and informative Autodesk BIM for Infrastructure e-book.  Civil Engineers and designers will learn how to save time during production and meet project objectives by implementing this software into the manufacturing process.

This informative whitepaper discusses the challenges with cloud operations management and the best practices needed to overcome them.

With sVirt, security threats to the hypervisor and other VMs are protected.  sVirt is the industry’s most comprehensive security solution for virtualization, built from the ground up on the Linux kernel, leveraging the strength of SELinux.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization represents a true strategic virtualization alternative to organizations looking for better total cost of ownership, faster return on investment, accelerated breakeven, and avoidance of vendor lock-in when compared to proprietary virtualization vendors.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition provides IT administrators with outstanding Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) certified migration, disaster recovery, and data protection tools.

A Leading Healthcare Institute relies on Acronis for smooth migration to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Environment

This whitepaper aims to make sense of cloud computing for government audiences that haven’t been deeply involved in the details of its rapid evolution. It lays out the capabilities and characteristics of a cloud computing infrastructure and how this can be achieved using existing IT investments, without vendor lock-in. It discusses how these features translate into significant potential for government agencies. It also describes how open choice and application portability in the cloud and the relationships between technology providers are critical to building a cloud that government agencies can take advantage of.

Register for this whitepaper and explore why SolarWinds SAM is the top toolset for IT infrastructures trying to select the right server and application monitoring tool.

Register for this whitepaper and explore why SharePlex is the best option as a data replication solution.

Cloud Computing for Govies™ explains the basics of cloud enabling technologies in relation to the specialized needs of public sector IT environments.  It will help you determine the best cloud fit for your agency or organization while touching on some of the pros, cons, and cautions that you should bear in mind as you seek to deploy cloud computing in your government agency or organization.

AutoCAD software will and has been used to eliminate productivity and cost issues faced by the state and local sector and the Department of Defense. Read more to find out how various agencies utilized BIM software to solve their design and manufacturing issues.

In the LiDAR scanning whitepaper series, subject matter experts examine LIDAR scanning and information on how standards and specifications can help organizations use 3D laser scanning more efficiently and four LiDAR capturing techniques, the data collected by laser scanning, and the return on investment this technology can offer.

This whitepaper provides a structured approach to assessing the advantages of the appliance model. It summarizes the trends that have made modernizing backup and deduplication an urgent priority, the key requirements for solution offerings, and the unique capabilities of Symantec NetBackup appliances in delivering a simple, complete, and cost-effective solution.

This white paper explains why current identity management and access control approaches are insufficient to secure corporate data and how to improve the security of your organizations IT systems.

Register for this datasheet to learn about the capabilities of Symantec Mobile Management.  

Web success requires many elements, both technical and business. This whitepaper is designed to help all involved to define the elements and provide a framework for decision making and determine whether to build or buy a web content management system. 

Consolidation requires more than just adopting virtualization, cloud, and other related technologies. It involves developing, implementing, managing, and continually improving a strategy that addresses consolidation.

Next generation Targeted Collections perfectly compliments Symantec Enterprise Vault by providing another way to defensibly reduce data volumes at the beginning of each matter, so less time and money is spent on downstream data processing and attorney review. 

In this IDC Report, see how Linux became the server operating system it is today, capable of supporting mission critical workloads on a variety of hardware architectures.

The Harvard Research Group interviews multiple companies doing Linux migrations and notes how Linux delivers significant cost savings and productivity advantages compared to proprietary enterprise server operating systems.

In this study by IDC, JBoss ON customers provide insight into the internal and external costs of performing certain administrative, operational and support functions. Through those interviews IDC found that these customers experienced a 634% ROI in less than 6 months.

This study illustrates the financial impact of implementing JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for mission-critical applications by an organization that provides integrated voice and data communications.

See how DreamWorks moved from proprietary software to open source to achieve greater cost savings, stability and performance.

Download this data sheet to learn more about BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.

The four point plan strategy will ensure that government organizations have the optimum formula for operating at peak efficiency today, while being positioned to meet all the demands that the future might present in the fast-changing online world that moves at “web-speed.”

This informative datasheet discusses a new approach to transform your existing data center into your private cloud.

Custom, focused, and malicious code, targeting enterprises and created for financial gain, is a serious threat. But a comprehensive approach to establishing and rating file context promises to reverse the value of stealthy and targeted attacks, and create a virtuous spiral of increasing IT security with reduced overhead.

For organizations that develop custom applications, read the report by industry analyst firm, IDC, to see how 6 companies benefited from adopting JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Download this complimentary whitepaper and read how BMC Software delivers on the value of the cloud.

Through a rigorous productization process, JBoss Enterprise Middleware teams continually harden and transform cutting-edge open source technology into well-tempered enterprise software products with unsurpassed quality, performance, and stability — then deliver it with top-notch support and mission-critical SLAs. Here's how it's done.

This whitepaper is about Quest’s NetVault Backup was rated as the #1 backup and recovery solution in the DCIG Oracle Backup Software Solutions Buyer’s Guide.

See how the Duke Cancer Institute moved from VMWare to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to achieve a more cost effective, dependable and secure virtualization solution.

Symantec Datasheet: Optimizing the Data Center for Today’s Federal Government

This paper discusses the differences between JBoss Community projects and JBoss Enterprise Middleware products. And how JBoss Enterprise Middleware delivers the benefits of open source software, combined with the additional testing, certification, and maintenance releases necessary for reliable long-term enterprise production use.

This whitepaper explains why enterprise open source software, such as JBoss Enterprise Middleware, is the compelling solution for organizations looking to increase their productivity, value, control while benefitting from enterprise-class support SLAs, guaranteed patches, updates and hot fixes and legal assurance.

Datasheet on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and NetApp Storage: Eliminating the Cost and Complexity of Reliable, Scalable Virtualized Environments.

TomTom is providing customers with superior location based services, the most accurate real time traffic information and coverage that is community driven. Customers can rest assured that the ever expanding historical traffic database allows industry partners to provide the most up to date traffic and location analysis for various road networks.

Register for your complimentary download of our special edition “‘Exadata for Dummies” eBook.

Register for your complimentary copy of our special edition “‘Exadata for Dummies” book.

TomTom is providing customers with superior location based services, the most accurate real time traffic information and coverage that is community driven. Customers can rest assured that the ever expanding historical traffic database allows industry partners to provide the most up to date traffic and location analysis for various road networks.

TomTom is providing the public sector with superior location based services, the most accurate real time traffic information and coverage that is community driven. Customers can rest assured that the ever expanding historical traffic database allows industry partners to provide the most up to date traffic and location analysis for various road networks.

TomTom is providing customers with superior location based services, the most accurate real time traffic information and coverage that is community driven. Customers can rest assured that the ever expanding historical traffic database allows industry partners to provide the most up to date traffic and location analysis for various road networks.

This datasheet discusses Symantec’s view on Smart Grid.

Understand available functionality of current server virtualization software for consolidation, management and utility infrastructure, as well as differentiating factors among vendors.

Datasheet on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and NetApp Storage: Deploying a Shared Storage Infrastructure.

GeoEye Metropolitan Imagery is a cost effective and easy way to procure accurate and authoritative imagery from GeoEye’s extensive archive.

In order to capture the full benefits of cloud computing a “Cloud First” policy was instituted for government agencies. This policy will change the way government uses and buys cloud resources and infrastructure.

Download your free eBook today! Learn about government information collections, rules that apply, information search functions and ways to end information management hassles and save money.

By building a shared storage infrastructure, organizations can achieve a much higher level of utilization, for lower operational costs. Learn the best practices in this report from i360Gov.com.

This Adept Engineering Document Management and Workflow brochure highlights the features and capabilities of the Adept product line.

This whitepaper provided by Synergis Solutions offers a practical guide to understanding document management system requirements.

Autodesk Buzzsaw provides Manatee County, FL with a new way to electronically manage workflow, creating a more efficient way to submit building and land development applications.

This case study discusses the U.S. Coast Guard implementation of Adept software to protect and manage its shore facilities.

In order to reduce the confusion for pilots and weather squadron operations, the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA), needed to synchronize weather data from around the world and make it available on one central site.

The AFWA ended the need to stitch together weather and map information from several sources by using Google Earth Enterprise. Google Earth Enterprise smoothed the weather data information gathering process, allowing the information to be delivered more quickly and conveniently.

The City of Canton, Georgia maximizes taxpayer dollars and cuts IT time by 20+ hours each week with Google Apps. To learn how Canton, GA reduced costs by thousands, download the Google Apps Case Study – The City of Canton, GA.

Desktop Engineering Magazine reviewed BOXX Technologies 8550 XTREME workstation in its May 2011 issue.

Read about the characteristics of IaaS clouds that offer the most deployment options and the easiest on-ramp to the cloud. Also, how CloudForms IaaS management provides what’s needed to build a well-managed IaaS cloud and why Red Hat’s approach to cloud computing delivers more value to customers.

This whitepaper discusses how to build a private PaaS solution; standardize application deployments across different environments; build, manage and consume applications and best practices for a savvy cloud strategy. 

To learn more about the broad spectrum of ARCHIBUS applications, the product overview will help you determine the suitable ARCHIBUS application for your needs.

One Friday every month, DLT employees, in support of the DLTFoundation, spend the morning volunteering with Martha's Table in Washington,D.C. The DLT Foundation focuses its philanthropic resources in thecommunities where our employees, vendors, customers and their families live andwork.

Read a case study exploring DLT Foundation's volunteer work with Martha's Table. 

Read the findings from Industry analyst firm IDC on thetotal cost of ownership (TCO) benefits Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides in thelong term vs. other strategies such as running a mixed environment or non-paidLinux distributions.

The whitepaper “Energy Management by Design” discusses minimizing energy consumption and reducing green house gas emission (carbon footprint) while maximizing IT performance as they relate to the “greening” of the data center.

Download this Solarwinds Corona informational document.

The CS510HD large format scanners are 24-bit, 42" wide full-color scanners perfect for processing photographs, complex maps, and AEC/ CAD drawings.

The IS210HD high-performance 42"-wide format scanner range offers accurate, high-resolution scanning of documents from ISO A4 up to ANSI E-size.

This page explores SolarWinds User Device Tracker (UDT) tool which is able to track devises on switch ports both current and historically as well as provides switch utilization information.

This presentation engages Norwich University’s School of Graduate and Continuing Studies to conduct a survey on virtualization and cloud computing among government and higher education IT management professionals.

Research findings about open source software in the government and the viability of open source for the implementation of federal cloud computing.

Register for the complimentary whitepaper, "Storage Infrastructure for Cloud Computing".

This Whitepaper discusses the challenge facing computing facilities managers to reduce data center operating costs, by minimizing energy consumption and costly downtime, and maximizing power reliability and IT application performance and availability.

Datasheet on Symantec Endpoint Protection: The next generation of antivirus technology from Symantec.

Read about key governance issues affecting both private and public clouds, frequently cited risks and ways to mitigate them, approaches Red Hat is taking to help customers implement effective cloud governance and best practices for a savvy cloud strategy.

This whitepaper describes the fundamental technologies necessary to implement and grow a successful private cloud.

Read how Salsa Labs chose a unified storage and virtualization solution that optimized their IT infrastructure, was scalable and flexible to meet their changing needs, and cost effective.

Understand the challenges that have prevented organizations from fully utilizing their virtualization technology and how combining the right human and technical resources can help organizations accelerate the value and penetration of virtualized IT.

This whitepaper explains how the Sister of Mercy Health System used the Quest Cloud Automation Solution to reduce application deployment costs and cut testing time by ninety pecent.

The new eBook delivers a complete guide to Linux management — what to know, what to consider, and what to avoid.

Do you see Windows 7 as an opportunity or simply a disruption? With effective planning and some incremental effort, Symantec tools can help transform your IT environment during the course of your migration.  Symantec April 14, 2011 presentation.

Learn about the differences between private and public clouds, what applications you should/shouldn’t consider virtualizing and monitoring the applications you do virtualize in this online magazine (eZine).

Data center consolidation is complex and risky, and cost reductions are not guaranteed. Download this e-guide to learn more about the best practices for consolidation while keeping disaster recovery in mind.

Explore the top reasons you should expand your digital prototyping to the factory floor with Autodesk Factory Design Suite.

This whitepaper explains how complexity reduction and resource consolidation can help CIOs meet their goals and why Quest Software is a smart option for meeting the needs of CIO’s in these efforts.

This whitepaper explains the challenges involved in proactive database management and identifies the key features to look for in database management solutions.

The state of Alabama has built a common operating picture, called “Virtual Alabama,” which is shared by over 1000 government agencies. Virtual Alabama uses Google Earth Enterprise, a secure version of Google Earth that agencies can run in their own data centers to build a globe with their own geospatial data.

Download this whitepaper to understand the cost savings of Red Hat Network Satellite and how managing your system doesn’t need to be complicated.

Autodesk Inventor software takes engineers beyond 3D to Digital Prototyping by giving them a comprehensive set of tools for 3D mechanical design that enables them to design, visualize, and simulate products before they are ever built. Digital Prototyping with Inventor helps companies design better products, reduce development costs, and get to market faster.

Download the free e-book, LiDAR  For Dummies, Autodesk and DLT Solutions Special Edition and learn exactly what LiDAR is, how LiDAR works with government project and the different types of capture techniques.

The Autodesk Inventor 3D model is an accurate 3D digital prototype that enables users to validate the form, fit, and function of a design; minimize the need for physical prototypes; and reduce the type of costly engineering changes that are typically discovered after the design is sent to manufacturing.

Identity and Access Management for Dummies shows you how to reduce the number of identities, automate identity administration, and base your identity management decision on business needs.

Autodesk Utility Design software is a comprehensive design productivity tool that enables engineers to plan, design, analyze, and order materials for distribution networks and create better staking sheets.  AUD is built on the AutoCAD platform, so users may design in a familiar environment.

Gunnar Hellekson, Chief Technology Strategist for Red Hat Public Sector, answers common questions on virtualization posed by Federal agencies, such as how to reduce costs and ensure the solution they implement is easy to manage and control.

In this expert e-guide, discover what makes migrating from UNIX to Linux attractive. Experts discuss cost savings, system modernization, increased reliability and security for your enterprise.

This whitepaper will examines how a unified and intelligent approach to identity and access management (IAM) simplifies many key roles within an organization.

Read how the US Census utilized Akamai’s Cloud Solution in their 2010 campaign to ensure scalability, security and performance to their website.

This whitepaper will examine how to increase your Oracle Applications ROI and enhance processing within the Oracle E-Business Suite.

The promise of substantial cost savings and greater efficiencies are driving ever-increasing numbers of public sector organizations to investigate cloud computing. There are a number of steps agencies should take to move toward cloud-based services. Learn the best practices for how to move to cloud-based solutions in this special report from i360Gov.com.

This paper will discuss how to use Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Network Satellite to provide the best experience for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Register for your complimentary download of our special edition “‘Storage Efficiency’ for Dummies” eBook.

Register for your complimentary download of our special edition “‘Cybersecurity’ for Dummies” eBook.

Request your complimentary copy of our special edition “‘Storage Efficiency’ for Dummies” Book.

Download a free copy of Desktop Engineering Magazine’s article “Bragging Right” by David Cohn and read how computer experts rated BOXX Technologies 3DBOXX 4860 XTREME workstation as the top-in-class for its speed and performance capabilities.

The McGraw-Hill Construction Green BIM SmartMarket Report was produced with support from Autodesk, U.S Green Building Council and Mechanical Contractors Association of America. This report focuses on highlighting the evolution of Green BIM and captures perspectives on the future of Green BIM from a broad range of green building experts, technology leaders.

For architects and designers, Autodesk Design Suite Premium 2011 extends your familiar AutoCAD workflow by integrating Autodesk’s leading design and visualization software in a single, cost-effective package. Autodesk Design Suite Premium 2011 includes: AutoCAD 2011, 3ds Max Design 2011, Autodesk Alias Sketch 2011, and Autodesk Showcase 2011.

AutoCAD Civil 3D software, the building information modeling (BIM) solution for civil engineering, helps teams deliver higher-quality transportation, land development, and environmental projects faster.

AutoCAD MEP software is the discipline-specific version of AutoCAD software for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) designers and drafters. AutoCAD MEP automates drafting tasks, enabling designers and drafters to create more accurate construction documentation faster.

AutoCAD Mechanical is AutoCAD software for manufacturing, purpose-built to accelerate the mechanical design process. Including all the functionality of AutoCAD, the world’s leading CAD software, plus comprehensive libraries of standards-based parts and tools for automating common design tasks, AutoCAD Mechanical offers significant productivity gains and helps save hours of design time.

AutoCAD Map 3D software provides direct access to data needed for infrastructure planning, design, and management activities. AutoCAD Map 3D helps professionals working on transportation, land development, water, and power projects to more easily create, manage, and analyze design, GIS, and asset data.

AutoCAD Electrical is AutoCAD software for controls designers, purpose-built to accelerate the creation of electrical control systems by automating electrical engineering tasks and providing comprehensive symbol libraries.

AutoCAD Architecture is the version of AutoCAD software for architects. Architectural drafting and documentation is more efficient with the software’s intuitive environment and purpose-built tools for architects.

Power design projects from concept through completion with new 3D surface modeling tools, point cloud support, inferred constraint capabilities, and updates to materials and surfaces. AutoCAD 2013 helps you take design and documentation further.

Get more options for precise control of your 2D drawings with AutoCAD LT 2013 software, a leader in 2D drafting productivity and data reliability. New tools provide flexibility and control and help you manage the appearance of drawings. The professional choice in 2D drafting software now offers more ways to control your drawing productivity

Request your complimentary copy of our special edition “‘Cybersecurity’ for Dummies” Book.

SolarWinds educational series designed to give you a basic understanding the important aspects network management. The final two volumes cover OSI Lower Layers and IP Routing.

This whitepaper focuses on some key parts of the foundation that underpin cloud computing, how they affect the cloud environment and why they matter.

Bring the power of Google Earth and Maps to your internal organization. Google Earth Enterprise helps organizations with imagery, basemap, and other mapping data make that information accessible and useful to decision makers and front-line employees via an intuitive, visual, and fast application.

Developed to meet the specific needs of our government customers, Google Apps for Government helps agencies to reduce IT costs with web-based office applications that empower your employees to do more for less. Google Apps delivers reliability and security built on Google data centers, reducing your infrastructure and maintenance needs while supporting your agency’s continuity of operations and disaster recovery plans. Google Apps is the first multi-tenant cloud application.

Download a copy of the ‘On the Frontlines’ E-Magazine, includes articles, columns and in-depth information on Government IT Consolidation trends and best practices. 

SolarWinds educational series designed to give you a basic understanding the important aspects IT management. These volumes cover an introduction to SNMP management, TCP/IP networking and IP addressing.

NetApp whitepaper on the two aspects of storage savings: storage utilization and storage efficiency.  

Customer demand for large Linux systems is driven by the migration from existing systems running on proprietary RISC architectures. This is driving the demand for high-performance and production-ready Linux infrastructures.

The growing demand for IT resources is at virtually all agencies, and scalability is an important focal point if you want to invest in good quality. Further, the large numbers of these systems create challenges for networking, storage, and management.

New x86-based hardware with many cores and RAS features represents an opportunity for datacenters to gain software support to make hardware advances available to users at an extremely competitive cost.

Download this whitepaper to learn about how combining the new many-core, RAS-enabled commodity processors with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 will allow virtualization solutions to scale to the largest configurations with the robustness of hardware RAS.

Symantec whitepaper on Symantec Enterprise Vault: Store, Manage, and Discover Critical Business Information.

Learn more about how to quantify and qualify your risk for data loss with this Symantec Data Loss Prevention whitepaper.

Ultimately solving the problem of application performance and helping reduce the mean-to-time-resolution Foglight enabled the DoD to continue testing and perfecting our Military’s defense equipment. Read this case study for more on this problem recognition and solution.

See how the Orange County Supervisor of Elections decided to implement a database replication solution to ensure performance and availability of its critical systems, improve their disaster recovery strategy and upgrade from Oracle 10g to 11g.

Download a copy of the latest Red Hat Training Course Catalog.

Learn about best practices for your virtualization strategy with this Symantec whitepaper.

Many IT infrastructures already have the need for a solid virtualization platform that plugs in to an existing environment. With KVM and Enterprise Linux, a simple environment with specified agency criteria can be set up and tested within a short time frame.

Download this comprehensive “Best Practices” technical guide today to understand how a solid virtual infrastructure based on KVM and NetApp serves as a secure and manageable foundation for your infrastructure.

In conjunction with Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, Red Hat offers a portfolio of add-ons to extend
the features of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription. Add-ons to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux tailor your application environment to suit your particular computing requirements.
With increased flexibility and choice, customers can deploy what they need, when they need it.

Designed to help organizations make a seamless transition to emerging datacenter models that
include virtualization and cloud computing, Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes support for major
hardware architectures, hypervisors, and cloud providers, making deployments across physical
and different virtual environments predictable and secure. Enhanced tools and new capabilities
in this release enable administrators to tailor the application environment to efficiently monitor
and manage compute resources and security.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is the best platform to tranform current and future technology
innovations into the best value and scale for IT solutions. Each release delivers important
new capabilities that advance that vision.

Symantec whitepaper on how the Risk Automation Suite addresses the Consensus Audit Guidelines.

SolarWinds educational series designed to give you a basic understanding the important aspects network management. The first three volumes cover Application Monitoring, IP SLA and NetFlow.

A case study on the City of Riviera Beach, Florida in Palm Beach County and the adoption of AutoCAD Civil 3D for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) road rehabilitation project. See how the City was able to save over $30,000 in design costs to complete this project on time and under budget.

Download the free eBook, MS4 For Dummies, Autodesk and DLT Solutions Special Edition and learn exactly what MS4 is, what you need to know to be in compliance with federal and state regulations and how to get the public involved in your efforts.

As technology becomes more and more sophisticated, so do the viruses and cyberattacks that are being developed. Government agencies aren’t safe; they are the number one target. Whether it’s coming from outside the agency or within, breaches in cybersecurity are real and can be detrimental.

Don’t miss this chance to learn how to lock down your environment and show measurable progress towards the Consensus Audit Guidelines. To make sure your agency is one step ahead, fill out the form below to receive a copy of the ‘CyberSecurity for Government Agencies’ complimentary whitepaper and learn the necessary precautions in keeping a secure environment.

Report how state and local governments are overcoming budgetary shortfalls to streamline IT operations and improve services.

This whitepaper will show you how to plan for the long term and lower your IT costs now with vWorkspace and desktop virtualization

Due to the current harsh economic times agencies have had to consolidate their IT operations. Consolidation offers an opportunity to save hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of dollars, while increasing uniformity, service levels, security, and more.

For example, the State of Michigan has saved over $100 million in IT spending through consolidation and shared services. The State was able to close 35 of its data centers and migrate all of those into just three high-efficiency centers, while reducing the active servers by more than 1,000.

Consolidation though is no easy task, without the right plan and direction the consolidation could be a failure. Read this complimentary and learn how to implement a smart consolidation—one that reduces complexity, eases maintenance, and improves security.

Register below to receive your copy of ‘How to Achieve IT Optimization’.

More and more agencies are beginning to discover that, though virtualization is not an easy task, when complete are able to accomplish more while using less computing hardware and financial resources. Given that today most CTO’s and IT managers are asked to complete tasks with less people and money, virtualization is the most efficient approach.

Choosing to virtualize is a big step in the right direction to maximizing your server utilization, but, we know that it won’t be any easy task. It will require time, dedication, and an understanding of your company’s needs as well as the resources available to accomplish your goals through server virtualization.

To better understand the most effective practices for a smooth transition, register below to receive a copy of the ‘Server Virtualization Best Practices’ whitepaper.

In response to the current economic downturn, many Federal organizations are consolidating their IT operations—that is, reducing the complexity and number of assets in their infrastructures. This paper reviews the role of CIOs in consolidation and the perspectives they must maintain.

Quest IT Consolidation Solutions for the Public Sector Whitepaper

Read up on how Oracle’s Exalogic Elastic Cloud provides mission-critical private cloud capability of virtually unlimited scale and performance.

Your organization could be looking to infrastructure migration, consolidation or restructuring for multiple reasons, perhaps it’s to reduce operational overhead, improve manageability or upgrade technologies. Whatever the reason, these projects can be daunting and full of unseen details.

This brief explores the benefits and risks of migration, consolidation and restructuring and offers migration expertise and solutions that can help you simplify even the most complex project.

Open source Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS) offers ease of deploying new and existing applications to the cloud while minimizing risk and maximizing productivity through:

• Portable tools and languages
• Platform-independent architectures
• Loosely-coupled applications, standard interfaces, and service-oriented architectures

Read this informative whitepaper to understand how to simplify the process of developing, deploying and managing applications in both public and private clouds.

Download this edition of On The FrontLines –Geospatial Trends in Government. This interactive online version includes interviews, articles, videos and more.

Download this informative Converge Special Report by the Center for Digital Education addressing issues on:

• Data Centers
• Telecommunications
• Networking Systems
• Technology Support
• IT Management Systems
• and the various ways campuses are supporting these functions today.

This “How-To Guide for Greening IT in Government” is entirely focused on you – the public sector.  The guide will show you how you can extend the life of existing data centers, streamline operations, and improve storage management. Topics covered in this guide include power and cooling, server consolidation, virtualization, storage management and more.

Your agency can obtain the complete solution for heterogeneous online storage management. This whitepaper highlights how this is possible - with the storage solutions from Symantec.

 Key benefits of the Veritas Storage Foundation™ from Symantec:

• Centrally manage explosive data growth
• Maximize storage hardware investments
• Provide data protection
• Adapt to changing business requirements

 Register now to learn more about storage solutions today.

Download this edition of On The FrontLines --The Greening of Government: Getting To Net-Zero Using Energy Efficient Technologies. This interactive online version includes interviews, articles, videos and more.

Brief datasheet on how Foglight can help your organization streamline operations and reduce costs by providing deep diagnostics with one consolidated monitoring tool.

Learn how to work collaboratively using a model created from consistent, reliable design information.

See how the Air Force overcame centralized architecture issues to effectively and securely send large amounts geographic information around the world.

United States’ largest municipal utility uses Autodesk software to save money, complete work faster.

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 software, the building information modeling (BIM) solution for civil engineering, helps project teams explore transportation, land development, and environmental projects digitally before they are built.

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AutoCAD Map 3D 2013 software is an engineering platform for creating and managing spatial data. Bridging the gap between CAD and GIS, AutoCAD Map 3D makes it possible for engineering and GIS professionals to work with the same data and allows design processes to integrate geospatial functions in a single environment for more efficient workflows.

Case Study

Reviews open source software development principles and process that leads to more secure software and also evaluates RHEL security in the real world.

JBoss cost and time effective solutions to integrate and maintain integrations between multiple projects for enterprise platform needs.

Illustrating how RHEV delivers cost-effective and highly manageable solution without compromising performance, scalability, or security.

Detailed introduction into Zenoss' IT Management Software Solutions.

With an aggressive timeline, the office needed to overhaul its outdated IT structure to support critical applications, growth, and DR goals. Find out how they achieved fast backup and recovery and while supporting the agency’s server virtualization and consolidation project with a NetApp FAS series solution.

The unique NetApp solution offers customers new levels of performance and scalability and a robust portfolio of proven data management software for sharing, consolidating, protecting, and recovering mission-critical data. V-Series systems seamlessly integrate into mission-critical SAN environments and provide a simple, elegant data management solution for decreasing management complexity, improving asset utilization, and streamlining operations to increase business agility and reduce total cost of ownership.

“Green IT” is a popular concept today, as data centers worldwide face rising costs for power, cooling, and space and agencies strive to meet demand for improved environmental stewardship. Many IT organizations, however, are just starting to understand the influence that their IT purchase decisions have on data center power, cooling, and space consumption. This paper explores that link, with a particular emphasis on the impact of storage solutions.

DLT Solutions outsources design to small business Prompt Signs and Design.

Learn how your agency’s IT assets can reach full potential with consolidation solutions from NetApp

Learn how your agency can significantly increase server and storage utilization on Oracle Grids for improved efficiency and reduced operating costs

Learn how your agency can simplify the growing complexity of storing and serving data in your organization

Learn how to decrease management complexity while increasing efficiency and reducing costs within your database environment

Learn how utilities can design assets with sustainability in mind, creating efficiencies in maintenance, operations, and customer service.

Learn how to effectively manage design information, communicate design intent, and streamline the design review process.

Learn how Autodesk geospatial software does more than save time – it keeps crews safe.

Learn how the Sacramento Central Plant project team discovered the benefits of Autodesk® BIM solutions on their fast-track project.

AutoCAD® Civil 2009 and AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2009 possess the ability to analyze your road design as you work based on recognized industry standards or your own user-defined standards.

This white paper will equip you with sufficient information about design criteria files and design checks so that you can begin creating your own criteria-based designs, and gain the benefits of this powerful capability.

Learn the technical foundation to perform various types of road rehabilitation and reconstruction design.

Learn how the Snohomish County Public Works designs complex road realignment.

Learn how Mead & Hunt engineers a $21 million runway and aircraft arresting system rehabilitation in just three months.

This document outlines the fundamentals of road design through corridors while focusing on the behavior and function of assemblies and subassemblies.

Assess building performance, prioritize investments, and evaluate proposals to reduce operational costs, conserve energy and reduce water consumption.

Quickly perform initial energy analysis and compare the energy efficiency of buildings by developing a basic 3D model for existing buildings.

Learn how two firms streamline design and construction on the Tuttle Courthouse Annex project.

Learn how the Sacramento Central Plant project team

Bill Inmon discusses the benefits of Data Warehousing and Archiving

Managing your mobile workforce through job documentation, monitoring, and “expert advice."

Service Oriented Architecture that easily sharable, reusable, and integrated

Secure your network with Oracle Database 11g

The benefits of combining Oracle BI applications with JD Edwards Enterprise One

Inormation Management simplified with  Oracle Database 11g

Cloud Computing allows users to tap into a virtually unlimited pool of computing and storage resources over the Internet

Lower IT costs with Oracle Database 11g

A Smart Grid delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using two-way digital technology

Identity resolution technology has played a huge part in keeping the web safe and as the web becomes more complex the more it'll matter

Data is a critical asset in companies and agencies today, allowing for new markets and the ability to attract and retain customers

Protecting against Cyber Warfare and building secure barriers to any threats on all networks

By being data driven companies can better manage risk, improve customer service, make smarter decisions faster, and keep costs down.

Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G)

Zenoss' full-stack coverage and model-driven architecture seamlessly integrates management of cloud services for easy reporting with uniform metrics.

An introduction to Linux for the technically inclined and educated reader at a level that can allow proper comparisons with UNIX.

Development and support of storage virtualization technologies for the open source community are now part of the standard RHEL distributions.

RHEV for Servers offers comprehensive management functionality, lowest cost of ownership, Windows® guest support and full compatibility with RHEL.

The combination of the RHEL operating system and RHEV helps to lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase infrastructure value.

RHEL can be achieved with minimal risk on a wide range of hardware.  Migration need not be a complicated endeavor.

See how platforms like SAP, IBM DB2, AMQP messaging and others compare against Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) when running real-world applications and real-world loads.

By leveraging the performance, scalability, and security of RHEL, the technology in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) provides the logical choice for virtualizing workloads.

Register below to read why RHEL Applications Run Best on RHEV.  

RHEL is the first and only operating platform to exceed one million transactions/second; meeting the highest standards scalable performance.

A series of tailored consultations that combine open source expertise, product recommendations, and best practices.

RHEV for Desktops:  Increased manageability, business agility and continuity, and improved data security with security and scalability

Aims to make sense of cloud computing for audiences that haven’t been deeply involved in the details as it has rapidly evolved.

Clouds with Red Hat:  Comprehensive, Consistent, Flexible, Better Infrastructure and an Industry-leading Ecosystem.  With architecture illustrations.

The evolution of Open Source and its key benefits such as easy acquisition and trial, ability to modify, and general adherence to standards.

Aides in the selection of the most appropriate platform for enterprise environments through an analytical comparison of Linux and Solaris.

Red Hat Open Source offers cost effective, flexibility for users, security, reliability to encourage student collaboration.  Includes 2 case studies.

Gain enterprise-class reliability and scalability, increase ROI on existing IT, reduce execution error and eliminate manual pain points with JBoss.

The Government Business Council's (GBC) candid survey of Federal Executives by about their satisfaction level with their IT Tools and Systems.

Explores how virtualization technology has broken through the production barrier to resolve past enterprise deployment obstacles.

Information about RHEV for Servers, comparing features and benefits across multiple virtualization platforms.

Overview of Enterprise Virtualization challenges and how RHEV for Desktop solutions creates a more holistic platform for managers and end users.

Red Hat Open Source technologies ensure maximum flexibility, safety, and price performance between public and internal cloud solutions.

How open source lowers cost of security maintenance.  Red Hat looks for security exposures and delivers security updates through Red Hat Network.

Red Hat Consulting offers experts who help identify areas of potential cost-savings by migrating to Red Hat, and then ensure safe, stable migrations.

Using Red Hat Network Satellite to create a homogeneous IT environment for colleges and universities to increase productivity and save money.

Read how Red Hat Academy (RHA) is helping students and laid-off workers learn critical IT skills.

Comprehensive review of Open Source Vocabulary, Campus Solutions and Benefits.  Includes Case studies, Open Source Explanation and Q&A.

Read how the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) leveraged SolarWinds’ to help troubleshoot, analyze & manage their network performance.

Help administrators take control of their entire Windows server environment by giving them ability to tackle many server management concerns.

See how England’s Surrey Police Authority managed their Active Directory environment with ease thanks to the functionality Active Administrator

Read how your agency can attain Return on Green Investments by establishing power settings and by shutting down inactive machines.

Discover how the Sheriff’s Deptartment overcame the challenges of managing Group Policy changes and recovering from accidental deletions.

See why the State of Delaware  chose ScriptLogic to be instrumental in the state’s migration from Banyan Vines to Windows 2000.

A solution for agencies to enhance security, meet compliance requirements and reduce manual processes associated with managing Windows desktops.

Discover how the Sheriff’s Deptartment overcame the challenges of managing Group Policy changes and recovering from accidental deletions.

Learn how Salford City Council created  a safe and secure desktop environment and saw a return on their investment in under 1 year.

Read how Active Directory Management Solutions help admins tighten security, increase productivity and improve business continuity.

Read how Nebraska's Air National Guard freed-up 25-50% of network admin's time and kept 600+ workstations updated and configured.

Introduction into the challenges posed by the Federal Desktop Core Configuration and some options for resolving them.

Reduce the cost of managing the Windows desktop and ease the burden of supporting the desktop lifecycle with Desktop Authority.

Centralize the management of distributed wireless networks.

Monitor, alert, and report on network capacity to provide acceptable VoIP call quality.

Overview of database development best practices for oracle methodology, learn how to delve into the single user method and the project-wide approach.

12 valuable principles that should be on the mind of every organization seeking to address the challenges of identity management.

If you have SharePoint 2003, 2007 or 2010, this data sheet will highlight the areas that you need to consider when considering a migration.

See how Richardson Company accomplished their SharePoint migration under 48 hours and with minimal user impact.

This whitepaper answers the question: how do you set up 24/7 compliance while tackling your traditional IT responsibilities.

This business brief presents the challenges of securing your environment and ensuring compliance in today’s economy.

vWorkspace, a virtual desktop management suite, can help reduce costs and security concerns, and increase control of your desktop environment.

With vWorkspace, administrators can manage and provision desktop infrastructure from a central data center, which reduces travel and support costs.

This whitepaper quantifies the hardware, power consumption, desktop downtime and other savings within a VDI project.

USAREUR effectively upgraded their Exchange Server to preserve secure communications, reduce maintenance and increase end-user functionality.

Migration Manager for Exchange is a quick and easy way to synchronize Active Directory and your Exchange files without effecting user productivity.

The most frequently asked questions on the security of Quest products and their compliance with federal guidelines and regulations.

How to meet 11 of the 20 security controls from the 'Consensus Audit Guidelines' important for blocking attacks.

An overview of your agency can combat the growing number of threats (Ie: worms, viruses, botnets, DOS attacks) against its web-based assets.

Read the whitepaper on how the Army improved their Total Ammunition Management Information System performance by 83%.

Read how the DoD was able to extend its Web Infrastructure, and keep up with mass of daily website visitors and e-mail list subscribers.

See how critical optimization services can help cloud computing fulfill its promise to deliver efficient, on-demand, business-critical infrastructure.

Orange County seamlessly integrates CAD design and geospatial data

Massport saves hundreds of hours annually with instant access to dynamic maps

Product brochure

AutoCAD Map 3D is not just a stand-alone product. It is also a suite of versatile utilities that can save countless hours by expediting common tasks.

Maritime solutions overview from GeoEye

Aviation solutions overview from GeoEye

Geoeye earth imagery brochure

GeoEye satellite imagery brochure

Geospatial data helps agencies respond, collaborate

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 highlights open source software as an area of interest due its advantages of reducing capital and operating expenses. Read the interview with Scott Lundstrom, VP of research at Health Industry Insights, on his view of Open Source in Healthcare IT.

Learn more about the impact of HIPAA and HITECH with this data sheet.

Learn more about the solutions to manage security and privacy with this whitepaper.

As a company that consistently uses technology as one of its core competencies, DreamWorks Animation demonstrates the successful adoption of Red Hat products.

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