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Doing More with Less Was Always the Wrong Goal

Do more with less has been the federal mantra for so long that for many it stopped meaning anything. This year it grew teeth....

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When the Perimeter Disappears, Everything Drives and Simultaneously Jeopardizes the Mission

There is a line inside the Department of War that the only thing left that is not digital is the bayonet. Everything else,...

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OMB M-26-14 Signals a New Era for Federal Cyber Visibility

The 2020 SolarWinds attack exposed a hard truth: sophisticated adversaries could live inside federal networks for months,...

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The Mission Critical Systems Hiding in Plain Sight

When Defense IT leaders think of mission critical systems, the same images come to mind: command and...

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Hybrid Cloud Survival Guide, Part 4: Decrypting and Demystifying CSfC and PQC for Federal Agencies

For federal customers, security claims only matter when they hold up under scrutiny. That is especially true when the conversation...

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Hybrid Cloud Survival Guide, Part 3: Security Starts with the Storage Layer

For most federal customers, security is no longer a secondary design consideration it is often the first question on the...

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Hybrid Cloud Survival Guide, Part 2: Overcoming Management Fatigue of Distributed Footprints

For federal customers, hybrid cloud usually starts as a design conversation and turns into an operations conversation very...

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Hybrid Cloud Survival Guide, Part 1: Slow the Conversation Down and Consider Day 2 Realities

For federal customers looking at ONTAP in AWS, the real question is usually not which platform is better, but which operating...

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What Federal Agencies Must Do Before AI Outpaces Zero Trust

Somewhere inside your agency, an AI system is making a decision right now. The question is not whether that system is working....