Frequent Technically Speaking writer Matt Micene, Senior Systems Engineer for DLT, was recently interviewed by FedScoop on the government's adoption of open source technologies.

My point is you need to change your focus to get application uptime in a cloud environment. In fact, you need to realize that your fancy and expensive HA solution was nothing but a band aid.

This week in Technically News: AWS WorkSpaces May Spark Federal Demand for Desktop-as-a-Service; Agency CIOs Thinking Smarter as IT Spending Declines; Congress Embarks on Government IT Reform; How Federal Cybersecurity Measures Can Apply to Healthcare; DLT Builds Navy New Portal to Manage Oracle Tools.

Read "Achieve Mission Success with Google for Govies," a resource guide that explores how innovative and secure visualization, mapping, search, and collaboration tools from Google are helping the federal government simplify IT and realize its cloud computing goals, while achieving enhanced productivity with reduced costs.

According to a Forrester research study, 53% of employees are already using some form of consumer technology to get their work done. The question that arises is: how can federal agencies encourage better collaboration while improving productivity and reducing costs?

We decided to teach our employees about cybersecurity. So we phished them to find out what would happen. Read about those results, the lessons we learned, and how we trained employees on the danger.

In this week's Technically News: 11 Concerning Cybersecurity Stats About the Federal Government; A Few Places Where Government Tech Procurement Works; Why Public Sector Gets Technology Wrong; Agencies Widen Open-Source Use; Who's in Charge? Cybersecurity: State vs. Federal Roles.

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Whether you are a public sector organization already familiar with this innovative technology, or have not yet discovered how it can simplify your complex IT environment, Oracle Engineered Systems for Govies eBook is a necessary read.

While state and local agencies may not have such clear mandates to adopt continuous monitoring, that doesn’t mean they couldn’t stand to benefit from the practice. Here's what they can learn from their Federal counterparts.