The document discusses the transition from the FTS2001 and Networx contracts to the new Networx contracts for network services. It notes that while good progress has been made, over 50% of the transition and over $3 billion in spending remains. It outlines actions the Interagency Management Council is taking to help complete the transition by the extended August 2010 deadline, including engaging support from the CIO Council and providing agencies transition assistance and credits.
National information infrastrcuture_Rrecommendations to Deptt of Electronics ...Prakash Kumar
Recommendation on Policy and Institutional Mechanism for National Information Infrastrcuture presented to Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India
Evolved customers with new expectations driven by technological advancements are expecting government to think, act and response differently in near future. This transformation will make a huge difference on stakeholders and the way they interact with government.
What they need is more personalized service to individuals or groups or other entities! which does not focused on what citizen could obtain as services but how government could help them to carry on their work towards their goodwill!
Blockchain for Power Utilities: A View on Capabilities and AdoptionCognizant
Blockchain networks promise to improve process efficiencies, reduce IT costs and elevate trust across the value chain for utilities that pilot new business models pivoting around shared infrastructure and collaborative ecosystems.
National information infrastrcuture_Rrecommendations to Deptt of Electronics ...Prakash Kumar
Recommendation on Policy and Institutional Mechanism for National Information Infrastrcuture presented to Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India
Evolved customers with new expectations driven by technological advancements are expecting government to think, act and response differently in near future. This transformation will make a huge difference on stakeholders and the way they interact with government.
What they need is more personalized service to individuals or groups or other entities! which does not focused on what citizen could obtain as services but how government could help them to carry on their work towards their goodwill!
Blockchain for Power Utilities: A View on Capabilities and AdoptionCognizant
Blockchain networks promise to improve process efficiencies, reduce IT costs and elevate trust across the value chain for utilities that pilot new business models pivoting around shared infrastructure and collaborative ecosystems.
Network Neutrality - Training Presentation for Indictee Scientists at C-DAC, ...Rajat Kumar
The Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is a research and development organization under the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt of India.
Net Neutrality formed a critical part of the C-DAC Induction Training Programme to allow the scientists to understand the discourses surrounding this relevant topic
"Bite-sized" updates from TRPC on tech-related developments in APAC. In telecoms, South Korea appears to be the first country in APAC to allow 6GHz Wi-Fi. OTT services continue to be scrutinised, with Australia and Japan casting an eye on misinformation and slander efforts. In FSI, South Korea will be hoping to expand the use of big data, while Australia is relaxing rules on regulatory sandbox participation.
Group 4 Networks - Google help create ethernet consortium for cloudsdgrubisa
Group 4 Networks is able to provide assistance and direction to various businesses, companies and offices including; Dental IT Support, IT Support for Law Firms as well as Medical IT Support.
Mobile the big game changer - Camp digital 2014 in ManchesterPatrik Malmquist
Mobile transforms sociality both for the individual and organizations in a higher and higher paste. Our mobile devices have become our primary connection to our digital life. At the same time more and more of our non-digital life is becoming dependent on our digital identity. This changes our behaviour and raises new challenges and opportunities for all digital endeavours. Patrik will talk about strategies that organisations can use to conceive and deliver an efficient time-to-market mobile project. He will also discuss initiatives to create ‘more than a mobile app’ and but instead to create ‘a mobile company’. The discussion will be both strategic and practical, from thoughts on how to get a competitive advantage in a more mobile world to why HTTP will be challenged by protocols like MQTT in the mobile age. A more mobile world changes everything, from customer relations to user interface considerations and technologies. It challenges the whole game and everything we thought we knew about digital.
My Presentation on Technology in Corporate Governance & Ethics ClassMargaret D.
I created this slide deck and taught it to the MBA class. Chapter 12 on Technology in Corporate Governance & Ethics was outdated. So, I scrapped the entire chapter, did all of the research and re-wrote it with updated facts and appeal. The teacher liked it so much that he sent a copy of it to the book's author. Note: almost every slide has "action", but SlideShare cannot show it unless you download the entire deck and run it locally.
Executive panel discussion at the 2010 BDPA Technology Conference on "Federal IT Initiatives".
Panel members: John James (US Navy), Bob Whitkp (US Navy), Tony McMahon (IRS) and Dr. Anthony Junior (US Navy)
SSC will collaborate with the 106 organizations listed in Schedule I, I.1 or II of the Financial Administration Act, other than Agents of Parliament, who will be part of this initiative to consolidate contracts where possible, to identify the best procurement options, and to ensure competitive and fair service arrangements are put in place with the private sector.
2.2. Case Study #2 DTGOVDTGOV is a public company that was crea.docxeugeniadean34240
2.2. Case Study #2: DTGOV
DTGOV is a public company that was created in the early 1980s by the Ministry of Social Security. The decentralization of the ministry’s IT operations to a public company under private law gave DTGOV an autonomous management structure with significant flexibility to govern and evolve its IT enterprise.
At the time of its creation, DTGOV had approximately 1,000 employees, operational branches in 60 localities nation-wide, and operated two mainframe-based data centres. Over time, DTGOV has expanded to more than 3,000 employees and branch offices in more than 300 localities, with three data centres running both mainframe and low-level platform environments. Its main services are related to processing social security benefits across the country.
DTGOV has enlarged its customer portfolio in the last two decades. It now serves other public-sector organizations and provides basic IT infrastructure and services, such as server hosting and server collocation. Some of its customers have also outsourced the operation, maintenance, and development of applications to DTGOV.
DTGOV has sizable customer contracts that encompass various IT resources and services. However, these contracts, services, and associated service levels are not standardized—negotiated service provisioning conditions are typically customized for each customer individually. DTGOV’s operations are resultantly becoming increasingly complex and difficult to manage, which has led to inefficiencies and inflated costs.
The DTGOV board realized, some time ago, that the overall company structure could be improved by standardizing its services portfolio, which implies the reengineering of both IT operational and management models. This process has started with the standardization of the hardware platform through the creation of a clearly defined technological lifecycle, a consolidated procurement policy, and the establishment of new acquisition practices.
Technical Infrastructure and Environment
DTGOV operates three data centres: one is exclusively dedicated to low-level platform servers while the other two have both mainframe and low-level platforms. The mainframe systems are reserved for the Ministry of Social Security and therefore not available for outsourcing.
The data centre infrastructure occupies approximately 20,000 square feet of computer room space and hosts more than 100,000 servers with different hardware configurations. The total storage capacity is approximately 10,000 terabytes. DTGOV’s network has redundant high-speed data links connecting the data centres in a full mesh topology. Their Internet connectivity is considered to be provider-independent since their network interconnects all of the major national telecom carriers.
Server consolidation and virtualization projects have been in place for five years, considerably decreasing the diversity of hardware platforms. As a result, systematic tracking of the investments and operational costs related to th.
MECC Central is a web-based emergency management system used throughout Australia for municipal EOC operations.
It covers the preparation, response and recovery phases of emergency management, and is easy to use yet secure and powerful.
This presentation has been used during Datalink's Victorian roadshow in August and September 2011.
Network Neutrality - Training Presentation for Indictee Scientists at C-DAC, ...Rajat Kumar
The Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is a research and development organization under the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt of India.
Net Neutrality formed a critical part of the C-DAC Induction Training Programme to allow the scientists to understand the discourses surrounding this relevant topic
"Bite-sized" updates from TRPC on tech-related developments in APAC. In telecoms, South Korea appears to be the first country in APAC to allow 6GHz Wi-Fi. OTT services continue to be scrutinised, with Australia and Japan casting an eye on misinformation and slander efforts. In FSI, South Korea will be hoping to expand the use of big data, while Australia is relaxing rules on regulatory sandbox participation.
Group 4 Networks - Google help create ethernet consortium for cloudsdgrubisa
Group 4 Networks is able to provide assistance and direction to various businesses, companies and offices including; Dental IT Support, IT Support for Law Firms as well as Medical IT Support.
Mobile the big game changer - Camp digital 2014 in ManchesterPatrik Malmquist
Mobile transforms sociality both for the individual and organizations in a higher and higher paste. Our mobile devices have become our primary connection to our digital life. At the same time more and more of our non-digital life is becoming dependent on our digital identity. This changes our behaviour and raises new challenges and opportunities for all digital endeavours. Patrik will talk about strategies that organisations can use to conceive and deliver an efficient time-to-market mobile project. He will also discuss initiatives to create ‘more than a mobile app’ and but instead to create ‘a mobile company’. The discussion will be both strategic and practical, from thoughts on how to get a competitive advantage in a more mobile world to why HTTP will be challenged by protocols like MQTT in the mobile age. A more mobile world changes everything, from customer relations to user interface considerations and technologies. It challenges the whole game and everything we thought we knew about digital.
My Presentation on Technology in Corporate Governance & Ethics ClassMargaret D.
I created this slide deck and taught it to the MBA class. Chapter 12 on Technology in Corporate Governance & Ethics was outdated. So, I scrapped the entire chapter, did all of the research and re-wrote it with updated facts and appeal. The teacher liked it so much that he sent a copy of it to the book's author. Note: almost every slide has "action", but SlideShare cannot show it unless you download the entire deck and run it locally.
Executive panel discussion at the 2010 BDPA Technology Conference on "Federal IT Initiatives".
Panel members: John James (US Navy), Bob Whitkp (US Navy), Tony McMahon (IRS) and Dr. Anthony Junior (US Navy)
SSC will collaborate with the 106 organizations listed in Schedule I, I.1 or II of the Financial Administration Act, other than Agents of Parliament, who will be part of this initiative to consolidate contracts where possible, to identify the best procurement options, and to ensure competitive and fair service arrangements are put in place with the private sector.
2.2. Case Study #2 DTGOVDTGOV is a public company that was crea.docxeugeniadean34240
2.2. Case Study #2: DTGOV
DTGOV is a public company that was created in the early 1980s by the Ministry of Social Security. The decentralization of the ministry’s IT operations to a public company under private law gave DTGOV an autonomous management structure with significant flexibility to govern and evolve its IT enterprise.
At the time of its creation, DTGOV had approximately 1,000 employees, operational branches in 60 localities nation-wide, and operated two mainframe-based data centres. Over time, DTGOV has expanded to more than 3,000 employees and branch offices in more than 300 localities, with three data centres running both mainframe and low-level platform environments. Its main services are related to processing social security benefits across the country.
DTGOV has enlarged its customer portfolio in the last two decades. It now serves other public-sector organizations and provides basic IT infrastructure and services, such as server hosting and server collocation. Some of its customers have also outsourced the operation, maintenance, and development of applications to DTGOV.
DTGOV has sizable customer contracts that encompass various IT resources and services. However, these contracts, services, and associated service levels are not standardized—negotiated service provisioning conditions are typically customized for each customer individually. DTGOV’s operations are resultantly becoming increasingly complex and difficult to manage, which has led to inefficiencies and inflated costs.
The DTGOV board realized, some time ago, that the overall company structure could be improved by standardizing its services portfolio, which implies the reengineering of both IT operational and management models. This process has started with the standardization of the hardware platform through the creation of a clearly defined technological lifecycle, a consolidated procurement policy, and the establishment of new acquisition practices.
Technical Infrastructure and Environment
DTGOV operates three data centres: one is exclusively dedicated to low-level platform servers while the other two have both mainframe and low-level platforms. The mainframe systems are reserved for the Ministry of Social Security and therefore not available for outsourcing.
The data centre infrastructure occupies approximately 20,000 square feet of computer room space and hosts more than 100,000 servers with different hardware configurations. The total storage capacity is approximately 10,000 terabytes. DTGOV’s network has redundant high-speed data links connecting the data centres in a full mesh topology. Their Internet connectivity is considered to be provider-independent since their network interconnects all of the major national telecom carriers.
Server consolidation and virtualization projects have been in place for five years, considerably decreasing the diversity of hardware platforms. As a result, systematic tracking of the investments and operational costs related to th.
MECC Central is a web-based emergency management system used throughout Australia for municipal EOC operations.
It covers the preparation, response and recovery phases of emergency management, and is easy to use yet secure and powerful.
This presentation has been used during Datalink's Victorian roadshow in August and September 2011.
The advantages of UC for businesses, employees, customers and busuiness partners are well-known. UC empoweer them to communicate anytime, anywhere, using any device. However, many companies beleive that implementing a unified communications solution will prove too expensive for their limited budget and require replacing their whole infrastructure.
IDGA is pleased to announce the return of the 5th Annual Cloud Computing for DoD & Government. The Draft Agenda is now available for you to view. Get your copy at www.CloudComputingEvent.com or request a copy via email at idga@idga.org
This summit is unique from the rest as it allows you to look at both sides of the Cloud - the fluid and functional aspect of Cloud services for government agencies, as well as with the tactical capabilities of the Cloud.
Presented at AFFIRM February Virtual Speaker Series: Shifting Gears: The Impact of CMMC on Government Contracting https://affirm.org/programs/2021/2/17/affirm-february-virtual-speaker-series-shifting-gears-the-impact-of-cmmc-on-government-contracting
March 2010: FedSources executive breakfast with HUD CIO Jerry Williams and HUD Deputy CIO Chris Niedermayer
http://www.fedsources.com/services/events/brk_williamsniedermayer.aspx
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: Passkeys at Amazon.pdf
AFFIRM Network panel slides
1. November 18, 2009 Voice of the Customer: Networx Transition, and Beyond Sonny Bhagowalia, CIO, Department of Interior Karl Krumbholz, Director of Network Services, GSA ITS Mike Brown, Executive Director, IT Services Office, DHS Mike Ponti, Director, Strategic Resources Planning, ASD/NII, DoD
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11. Overall Agency Transition Progress (10/29/09) Known SOWs Known FOs Disconnects Networx $ Value 38% Remaining 52% Remaining 3,444,557 Remains 26% In Progress 31.8% Disconnected 96.0% FTS 2001 Revenue Remains 36% Completed 48% Completed 4.0% Total: 143 Total: 383 Total: 5,047,794 Total: $1.1B K
ITS has a strong telecom and IT solutions portfolio that includes Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts, IT Schedule Programs, Strategic Solutions, as well as Network Services Programs. ITS actively works with GSA’s industry partners and customers to ensure the array of IT solutions and telecommunications offerings remain relevant in support of your agencies' important broad-ranging missions. In addition, ITS includes the service delivery roles and responsibilities for all Network Services product and service offerings. Collectively, these programs enable agencies to meet your voice, data, and video telecommunications needs at better prices than you could obtain individually while reducing potentially duplicative customer acquisition efforts, allowing you to focus your increasingly limited resources on your core missions.
In order to provide Agency’s Network convergence the Networx program has to converge as well - solutions are moving towards IP-centric services on a shared infrastructure delivery model Where all Agencies services including legacy wireline services such as voice, FRS, ATMS, SONETS as well as wireless services connect to the same infrastructure, an IP/MPLS backbone Improving emergency planning and providing COOP capabilities while simplifying ordering, billing and management processes GSA is used this new shared, simplified, model to build the Networx Program