Contributed Solutions

Government Technology works with industry-leading technology companies to highlight innovative solutions to state and local government challenges. The following are vendor-contributed solutions case studies and whitepapers.

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Securing Your Cloud-Based Data Integration
May 2012, Sponsored by Informatica
A Report on Secure Integration Techniques Targeted at the Information Technology Executive

A Practical Guide for Retiring Legacy Applications
May 2012, Sponsored by Informatica
One of the reasons for an organization to initiate an application retirement project is to save costs. As application retirement allows the application and the supporting hardware and software stack to be shut down, the organization saves on licensing, maintenance and administration costs.

Asset Management for Local Government
April 2012, Sponsored by IBM
When individual departments use separate systems to manage their own assets, the result can be a complex, multi-layered enterprise. Local governments need to look at enterprise solutions that allow them to take an enterprise asset management approach to maintain their assets, deliver services and improve performance of the government as a whole.

Building a System for Picking the Right IT Projects for Maximum Bottom-Line Results
April 2012, Sponsored by Innotas
In order to reduce costs and better prioritize low-risk, high-reward projects, it is useful for an IT organization to prioritize initiatives according to a standard scoring system. This eBook will illustrate how to implement an effective scoring and prioritization model to identify high-priority projects and streamline business operations.

High Capacity Wireless Solutions for Government Networks
April 2012, Sponsored by BridgeWave Communications
In addition to high capacity backhaul for video surveillance applications, point-to-point gigabit Ethernet (GigE) solutions are an ideal way for government agencies to enable future-proof, high-speed mobile connectivity, even in emergency situations. This paper will explore the vital role and value proposition that GigE wireless plays for local and state governments.

Online Auctions Cut Costs, Increase Revenues for Tax Liens, Tax Deed, and Property Foreclosure Sales
March 2012, Sponsored by RealAuction.com
Conducting your judicial sales of tax lien, tax-defaulted and foreclosed properties online brings considerable administrative cost savings, improvements in efficiency and greatly reduced staff time. In most cases deploying this technology is revenue-neutral providing the ability to do more for Government Agencies in these budget conscious times.

Get Started with Cloud
March 2012, Sponsored by IBM
Do you consider cloud to be all about IT infrastructure? Think again. Cloud enables innovation and transformation by lowering enterprise and IT operating costs and improving enterprise and IT processes by standardizing applications, infrastructure and service processes.

IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor
March 2012, Sponsored by IBM
Benefits from cloud are compelling. Early adopters of cloud computing, including IBM and IBM’s customers, have realized real benefits, including: • Reducing IT labor cost by up to 50 percent • Eliminating up to 30 percent of software defects • Lowering end-user IT support costs by up to 40 percent.

Five Myths of Cloud Computing
March 2012, Sponsored by HP and Intel
HP and Intel are committing extensive resources to helping customers with all of their questions and concerns around cloud computing. Register to download this detailed whitepaper and learn more.

HP Cloud Service Automation
March 2012, Sponsored by HP and Intel
Combining award-winning HP technology and best practices, HP Cloud Service Automation is a unique blend of software and services, providing a flexible cloud solution to deliver infrastructure and applications as a service. Register to download this detailed whitepaper and learn more.

2012 Cloud Trends – How Should You Prepare HR and IT
March 2012, Sponsored by Workday
For the fourth year in a row, Workday's annual discussion on trends in HR was an informative and exuberant event. Top IT, HR, and Talent Management analysts and consultants gathered to discuss their predictions for 2012 with critical trends and offer advice on how you should prepare for the year ahead.

4 Key Areas to Recognize in a People Economy - Value Management White Paper
March 2012, Sponsored by Workday
In this complimentary whitepaper, Seth Halpern, Director of Value Management at Workday, discusses the four key areas companies need to recognize in the new “people economy.”

Managed Network Services for State Government Agencies
February 2012, Sponsored by Hughes
This white paper presents an overview of Hughes’ new Converged Broadband Architecture (CBA) with patent pending ActiveQoSTM technology which overcomes the inherent performance challenges associated with running your data, voice and video applications over a broadband network. CBA represents a truly new networking paradigm by providing even faster performance than MPLS, over affordable broadband for the distributed government network.

State and Local Government Data Management Challenges
January 2012, Sponsored by Dell
Government Technology recently surveyed state and local government leaders on their challenges around data storage. Read this executive summary to see how prepared government agencies feel they are in combating complex data management and rising costs – and the projects and plans they have for the future.

Thin Client Computing
, Sponsored by Citrix
Providing Solutions and Dispelling Myths

Desktop Transformation Model: From Wow to How
, Sponsored by Citrix
The benefits of migrating to desktop virtualization are self-evident, making the decision to transition over a clear one. But for larger organizations within government, education and healthcare, the actual move from “wow” to “how”— that is, from decision to implementation—can be daunting in the details.

Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solutions
, Sponsored by Cisco
This document describes why Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is becoming increasingly important and discusses VDI requirements and challenges. It then details the end-to-end Cisco solution for VDI.

Imagine Virtually Anything
, Sponsored by NetApp
Oak Hills Does the Math: VDI on Cisco UCS, VMware, and NetApp + Champion Solutions Group = $1.27M Savings

University of San Diego Manages Skyrocketing Data Growth with NetApp
, Sponsored by NetApp
This white paper details how NetApp efficiency helps the University of San Diego reduce overall technology costs while facilitating a highly dynamic and rich academic learning environment.

Hospital Deploys Desktop Virtualization with Unsurpassed Performance
, Sponsored by Cisco
Seattle Children’s Hospital uses Cisco Unified Computing System to power 3000 virtual desktops across its locations.