Technically Speaking

The IRS breach was exceedingly low-tech: it’s at the other end of the spectrum from the infamous and sophisticated Chinese hacking operations. This was just a bunch of bad actors who stole – or bought on the black market – personally identifiable information (PII) on a large number of American taxpayers. They accessed the IRS “Get Transcript” application, and provided answers (or educated guesses) in response to personal questions about their victims. This allowed them to access tax returns and other filings, facilitating lucrative identity thefts in the future.

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At DLT Solutions, we are seeing a pattern emerge with the types of workloads being deployed to public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms by our customers. DLT primarily engages the Public Sector and Educational entities, so the relevance of our observed trends rests there.

The challenge of easily procuring new technology is the Old Faithful of federal IT. Regardless of the year, it’s an issue that keeps coming up. In fact, judging by a recent survey of federal IT pros at SolarWinds, procurement challenges are erupting more than ever before.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is changing the way both the public and private sector work together to design, communicate, solve problems, and build better projects faster and at less cost. As BIM practices and technologies continue to evolve, what does the future hold? From mobile-enabled BIM to simplifying the prefabrication of building materials, this new white paper takes a look at the Top 7 BIM Trends that are Game Changers for the Public Sector. We've summarized the highlights below: