How's your virtualization and data center consolidation strategy progressing? Have you hit a plateau after virtualizing everything you can? With all eyes firmly fixed on the cloud, why would I bring up virtualization? Virtualization has come and gone, everyone's done it, there's nothing left. Right? Not so fast.

Technically News scans thousands of industry articles to present you with a weekly source of IT news, information, and ideas that impact the public sector. This edition's articles include: Veterans Affairs Department Launches $3M Open Source Contest; Technology’s Real Value for Government; Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud; Nations Prepare for Cyber War; The Pentagon's Cybersecurity Big Data Analyzer.

Today, many public sector organizations are facing rising operating costs, but decreasing budgets and high operational growth are overburdening legacy systems. With consumer IT creating demand for familiar e-mail and collaboration technology for the workplace, IT Directors are facing a difficult 2013. How do they satisfy operational needs and lower costs, while satisfying the demands of their coworkers?

Zombie Data is old, forgotten data you think you’ve disposed of, but haven’t, coming back “from the dead” when a hacker finds it. And unfortunately, in the digital age, these zombies are not the slow limping version; they’re the 21st century, adrenaline-fused kind.

Technically News is a new feature on Technically Speaking that scans thousands of industry articles to present you with a weekly source of IT news, information, and ideas that impact the public sector.

Imagine a pen that practically remembers what it writes. SmartInk provides the ability to do just that. There is a desire for paperless field data collection, but it has yet to happen – until now.

With the holidays in the rear view mirror we take a moment to look at what online scammers have been up to this season. It is that time of year where the perfect conditions exist for malicious programmers to run their seemingly annual Search Engine Poison (SEP) attacks. For those who aren’t aware: What is SEP?

In the final part of this series, DLT Solutions Engineering Team Lead, Matt Micene assures us that there is a happier future for Enterprise IT on the horizon.

Much of the technology pundi-sphere has been burbling about the creation of shadow IT, cloud democratizing IT, the rise of bring-your-own-device (BYOD), and all sorts of anti-enterprise IT buzz to the point that I've even blogged about it before.