DOD contract - Navy looks to speed up data center consolidation efforts
Recently, a number of federal agencies have been looking to reduce and streamline their use of computing facilities as part of an overarching government program...
NASA seeks guidance with data center consolidation initiative
Recently, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration put out a Request for Information in connection with its plans for data center consolidation.
Public sector shared services and mobility, the way ahead
Shrinking federal IT budgets of the past few years have mandated the federal government to come up with new guidance and directives that outline steps to create...
Enterprise network switches – the hidden bottleneck
A hidden bottleneck is growing within systems deployed on data center floors today.
Cisco races ahead with breakthrough data center solution - application centric infrastructure (ACI)
A few weeks back, I wrote a blog on Software Defined Networking (SDN) and how it is gaining momentum in the market place.
New trends in converged IT infrastructure
Converged Infrastructures combine networking, servers and storage into a preconfigured and usually pre-engineered solution for running applications.
The future of software defined networking
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a new approach to designing, building and operating networks.
Security considerations for BYOD
Bring your own device (BYOD) is an IT policy where employees are allowed or encouraged to use their personal mobile devices — and, increasingly, notebook PCs — ...
The convergence of cloud computing & big data analytics
There are two initiatives that are top of mind for public sector agencies dealing with information overload - big data analytics and cloud computing.
UNICOM Engineering webinar - system architectures for service provider
UNICOM Engineering is all too familiar with the difficulties faced by designers as they build systems for service providers.