Open First

If you do an Internet search on the phrase, “Is Java dead,” more than 62 million hits will come up. The idea that Java has passed its useful life has been predicted for almost a decade. And yet Java remains the No. 1 programming language, according to surveys.

As the cyber workforce is stretched thin, the Open Organization model can help achieve the flexibility and innovation needed to address complex challenges.

Government agencies leveraging the hybrid cloud environment need enterprise software with long-term support, portability and security. This means relying on commercial open source products, not open source projects.

The Defense Department has been making waves in the information technology industry with its single-award contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud Program (JEDI).

IT modernization funds are coming, and the chief information officers of federal agencies are figuring out how to take advantage of them, and how they can get the most bang for their buck.

When thinking about future trends, it’s important to have a strong understanding of the important innovations impacting most sectors, and pair that understanding with an intuition around what impacts those innovations will have to most organizations in 2018.

The 2017 Red Hat Government Symposium highlights the key role that the open source community has in meeting the challenges of government IT.

Demands for faster production times, higher quality and more predictable cost management are posing significant challenges for development teams. In-house software development is essential in achieving these and other agency objectives. Exacerbating the demands on development teams is often the need to successfully release new applications, while also updating existing ones.

How do we ensure systems on government networks are in a completely known, secure state once they are in production?

Achieving a culture of secure dev ops doesn’t happen overnight, but it is possible when the leadership of an organization makes the brave, conscious decision to lead their organizations on a journey to examine processes and find the right platform.

As government IT seeks ways to be more innovative and responsive to keep up with increasing workloads and demands, open hybrid cloud offers hope as a means to meet growing mission challenges.

Despite its industry age, here are seven top reasons Java is not headed into retirement anytime soon.

Digital transformation is a hot topic in the federal community. But what do CIOs mean by digital transformation? Does digital transformation mean IT modernization? Does it mean moving to the cloud? Does it mean changing business processes and doing all of the above?

Although Ansible is a young product, it already has wide acceptance among IT experts because of its simplicity and flexibility. Here are some of the reasons Ansible is becoming the go-to solution for a variety of IT operations.

Maximizing automation helps prepare agencies and their workloads for cloud deployment. Those same steps will make cloud migration and moves between clouds successful.