On April 24, 2013, Dan Dougherty, Vice President, EMC Federal, accepted a United States Postal Service Supplier Performance Award, highlighting those who have played a significant role in the sustained growth and performance of the U.S. Postal Service. EMC was honored for its role designing data storage and data management solutions including hardware, software, and ...

Last month, I had the chance to moderate a panel at the second annual MeriTalk Data Center Brainstorm at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., speaking with the Department of the Interior (DOI), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on the data center consolidation journey.  We talked about ...

Please join us in congratulating Bethann Pepoli, Chief Technology Officer for Public Sector and Education at EMC, who has been honored with a bronze award for the 9th annual Stevie Awards.  The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are the world’s premier awards for female executives and their organizations.  Bethann is being recognized for Female ...

This year The World Economic Forum highlighted big data as a new economic asset comparable to currency and gold1. No wonder everyone is a flutter. In the private sector, I understand the excitement. Companies see the potential for new revenue streams and the emergence of entirely new market categories. They see dollar signs. Like with ...

In my previous posting I have covered a perspective on Big Data and the benefits for Human Services organisations.  Just recently the UK Policy Exchange Think Tank  has published a comprehensive report titled “The Big Data Opportunity: Making government faster, smarter and more personal”, and discussing the many benefits offered to Public Sector by leveraging ...

To quote one of my favorite thinkers, @ChuckHollis, who tweeted recently “IT needs to get good at marketing, as they’re competing with Service Providers who do it.”  As a tech marketer, I couldn’t agree more.   If Government IT departments don’t learn how to market their services, they will most assuredly go out of business. ...

Over the course of four seminars, the Big Data for the Public Good series presented a rare opportunity for leading data science thinkers, innovators, and practitioners to explore how the field can serve the public interest. Presented by Code for America and sponsored by Greenplum, the series hosted Michal Migurski and Eric Rodenbeck of Stamen ...

To improve citizen services and protect national interests, the federal government must be able to quickly and effectively analyze the enormous volumes of structured and unstructured data that it collects from sources around the globe. This data continues to grow at an astounding rate, which is compounded by the continuous advancement of technological collection capabilities ...

Anyone who makes their living in Public Sector IT knows the tech industry runs on buzz words. Take “Cloud”, for example. How many times have you read or written that word in the past 24 months?  For me, I’d have to say > 1,000! (Note to self: Make some time for pleasure reading!) Kidding aside, ...

It’s difficult to go anywhere today without a CCTV camera picking up your movement and storing these images for the future. Advancements in DNA and positive identification are such that crimes committed over 30 years ago are being solved as technology provides the means to identify the previously anonymous. Across the US and the diverse ...