This week in Technically News: 9 Strategies for Increasing Collaboration and Reducing Waste in Government; Managing the Mixed Cloud: Red Hat’s Open Hybrid Cloud; Federal IT Priorities: Vision v. Reality; Ten Ways Cloud Computing Is Revolutionizing Aerospace and Defense.

Ken Brill, the "Father of the Data Center Industry", recently passed away. Today, we came across a wonderfully designed infographic celebrating Brill's life. We hope you enjoy it, too!

This week in Technically News: NASA’s Shadow IT Issues with Cloud Computing All Too Common; The Rise of the Citizen CIO; How CISOs Help Lower Breach Costs; Google Poised to Become the Next Amazon in Cloud, Analyst Says.

The wait is over! Google and DLT Solutions are proud to introduce Emergency Response Tools for Govies – a free eBook that explores how Google’s information management and collaboration tools help emergency management teams achieve unparalleled situational awareness before, during, and after a crisis.

This week in Technically News: Striking The Right Balance Between BYOD & Security; Q&A: HHS CTO Bryan Sivak On Disrupting Government Culture; Big Data – Big Exposure. What Can You Do About It; NIST Cybersecurity Center Moves Into High Gear; Do We Need a US Department of Technology; Virtualization Has Changed Disaster Recovery: 15 Data Points.

Seems like Fed IT innovators are tied to the rails as the big-iron locomotive careens down the track. A new MeriTalk study, “Innovation Inspiration: Can Software Save IT?,” tells us what we already know - we spend too much money updating and maintaining legacy systems. But, this isn’t all a doom-and-gloom story - there’s a glimpse of a super-hero option.

This week in Technically News: Federal IT Efforts Slowed by Weak CIO Roles, Uneven Reporting; Cybersecurity: You Can't Firewall Human Nature; FBI Data Center Efficiency Program the Way of the Future; The Positive Side Effects of Data Center Consolidation; Red Hat Exec Debunks Open Source Myth.

If I asked you to name the top barriers government agencies face when it comes to cloud adoption, I’d be surprised if privacy, security, and compliance didn’t appear somewhere at the top of your list. So how can agencies do more in the cloud while ensuring their mission critical data and systems stay secure?

This week in Technically News: Cloud Solutions Grab Big Slice of Government IT Budgets; Despite Sequestration, Cybersecurity Funding Growing; IRS Needs Better Data Center Consolidation Plan; Does Your Cybersecurity Strategy Include Shadow IT?; NASA Laser Comm Will Rocket Data To and From Space

During this panel, experts compared and contrasted security risks, responsibilities, and approaches of on-premise IT and the shared security model of the public cloud. Conversations explored topics from FedRAMP, shared resources, continuous monitoring, data management, and automation.