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New Mexico Lt. Gov. Diane Denish Touts Google Apps in Cost-Saving Plan
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Budget proposal says using Gmail and other Google productivity tools could save $1.9 million annually. - State and Local IT News in Brief - Nov 4
- Oakland County, Mich., Saves Money with Employee Cost-Reduction Blog - Nov 2
- Report: Interoperability Requires Improvements in Governance - Nov 2
- Virtualization: CIOs Find Benefits Beyond Savings - Nov 2
Leadership Strategies & Careers
- Public CIOs' Role Shifting to Leader
- Philadelphia CIO Allan Frank Has Plans for a Digital City
- Bill Schrier Elected President of the Metropolitan Information Exchange
IT Management & Governance
- Avoid the Five Common Dangers of IT Risk Management
- Chicago Academy of Advanced Technology Opens
- Oakland County, Mich., Saves Money with Employee Cost-Reduction Blog
Research
- Report: Interoperability Requires Improvements in Governance
- Study: States and Locals Put Lower Priority on Energy Efficiency in IT Purchasing
- Agile Development Speeds Government Software Development
Enterprise Technology
- Adobe Announces New Version of Connect Pro Web-Conferencing Solution
- Virtualization: CIOs Find Benefits Beyond Savings
- Q&A: Former Salesforce.com Executive Steve Cakebread Sees Big Move to Cloud for Government
Case Studies & Interviews
- CIO Brenda Orth on Pennsylvania's Outsourcing Success Story
- Beth Noveck on the Future of Government Transparency
- SaaS Saves Millions for North Carolina
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- Government Must Attract More Cyber-Security Talent (Opinion)
- It Doesn't Pay to Skimp on Cyber-Security (Opinion)
- An Economic Argument for Cloud Computing
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Securing GovSpace
By Mark Weatherford: Musings on the latest rumors and news in the government cyber-security arena.
Leaving Las Vegas ... and DefCon
FastGov: Where Government is Going These Days
By Paul W. Taylor: Dispatches and observations from the field in the continuing campaign for government modernization.
Former Washington State CIO named fiscal chief for state welfare agency
Prepare to be disappointed by initial ARRA reporting roll-up
Distracted Drivers Summit: Digital Distractions are different, and now subject to crack down
Lohrmann on Infrastructure
By Dan Lohrmann: Discussions on the virtual tsunami of technology challenges and options government faces today, from hot stimulus projects to cloud computing.
NASCIO Best Practice Submissions Worth Reading
Citizen Satisfaction with Federal Websites Surges
Should Governments Move to Windows 7, Linux or Wait?
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Virtualization: CIOs Find Benefits Beyond Savings
- Nov 2, 2009
Photo: Jim Russell, vice president of public sector, Symantec/Photo courtesy of Symantec
As budgets tighten and public-sector agencies face increased scrutiny due to spending, virtualization is transforming the endpoint and data center by increasing utilization rates, reducing energy consumption and driving down costs.
As a result, many public-sector agencies are moving outside their comfort zones to explore virtualization as a viable alternative. The goal of virtualization and other emerging technologies is centered on doing more with less - a promise that is hard to ignore in these economic times. The following are benefits government agencies can expect when implementing virtualization:
1. Increasing Cost Efficiency
Server and endpoint virtualization offers government agencies a streamlined, automated and cost-effective way to deploy and support both computing resources and users, while also meeting regulatory requirements for privacy and reporting.
A recent study by MeriTalk, a federally focused, online ...Continue Article...
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