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Early adopters offer five tips for avoiding vulnerabilities.
The city of Fort Wayne, Ind., enhanced IT processes by embracing Six Sigma. Find out how to implement this methodology.
The city of Asheville, N.C., offers a roadmap for deploying mapping tools that benefit the community.
Mobile computing devices boost the efficiency of social workers, leaving them more time to protect at-risk children.
Officers slow down motorists by speeding up the ticket process.
Single sign-on cuts support and training costs while speeding access to critical data.
Localities bring public safety communication into the 21st century with new technology that extends interoperability.
Government agencies deploy Internet monitoring and filtering technologies to oversee employee activity.
Austin’s Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority smooths operations with thin clients and desktop virtualization.
Charlotte County, Fla., rolled out server virtualization to avoid a repeat of outages it suffered during Hurricane Charley.
Cellular modems enable civic workers to access applications on the go.
Expectations of mobility and flexible access drive adoption of Secure Sockets Layer VPNs.
Financial calculations don’t tell the whole story. To really capture the benefit of a potential project, factor in what it offers the government and public.
Sharing IT projects with other public sector organizations can reduce costs and aid innovation.
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Data-leak prevention technology inspects outbound content to keep sensitive data from escaping the network.
Sensitive data at rest is the most vulnerable data of all. Experts share their suggestions on how and where to protect it.
Blades and SANs help two circuit courts bring order to chaos in the data center.
It’s no longer an arcane mainframe strategy, but this resource-pooling strategy still requires care to succeed.
State and local agencies look to file area networks to ease storage management.
Learn about document management’s role in government and the benefits of content management. (pdf)
IT can help states respond to FOIL requests, making records available to the public inexpensively and quickly.
States fret about the implementation challenges of the new federal driver’s license law.
When Mayor Adrian Fenty appointed me to his cabinet as chief technology officer for the District of Columbia, I asked a simple question...
There’s no question a sound project management methodology helps an information technology project succeed in terms of cost, schedule and functionality.
It wasn’t so long ago that the mainframe ruled IT.
As the summer heats up and gasoline prices continue to rise, the cost of power is one topic that isn’t going away anytime soon.
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