Federal Tech Podcast

January 24, 2023 Stuart Dyer, CBRE When Vivek Kundra called for a cloud-first emphasis back in 2011, he never thought that it would be so popular that a situation would arise where data centers may be in short supply. Everybody knows 70% of the world’s Internet traffic goes through Ashburn...

January 17, 2023 Brian Hettinger, ABBYY Years ago, one would enter a federal agency with a badge and go to work.  The server was down the hall and much of the security was based on the classic Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card. The past five years has seen that model...

January 3, 2023 Willie Hicks, Dynatrace All systems, including federal systems, are full of vulnerabilities. The question is, given a limited number of hours in the day and a limited staff, how can you optimize your resources to remedy this issue? Well, the Cybersecurity & Cyberinfrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has...

December 15, 2022 Tom Scurlock, Talend It is all about alignment. When you hit a pothole, you need to get your car aligned; if you do not your tires will wear out and can cause an expensive repair to the bushings and ball joints of your car. Anybody who has...

December 13, 2022 Dr. Elsa Schaefer, LinQuest Once upon a time scientists would dream of the day when they could have enough information to make decisions based on data.  Young readers may have to go to history books to see computer science majors taking stacks of punch cards to a...

December 8, 2022 Gregory Garrett, Peraton When it comes to a federal agency making the transition to Zero Trust, sometimes, ya gotta bring in the big dog. Gregg Garret has written 24 business books and has decades of experience helping federal agencies solve complex problems.  Seems to me he might...

December 6, 2022 Christopher Townsend, Elastic If you were to do a “thought cloud” of technology, you would see the usual suspects, companies like Microsoft, AWS, and Google. Nobody would include Elastic Search in this discussion, yet it is seen all over the place, perhaps the best kept secret in...

December 1, 2022 Dr. Tim Robinson, WWT There was a time in American culture when “living on the edge” was a social construct. Perhaps a person was a test pilot or motorcycle racer.  In terms of federal information technology, we all live on the edge. The edge referred to is,...

November 29, 2022 Melissa Gilbert It is not just lemmings that follow a herd off the cliff; technology professionals are garden-variety humans and subject to herd thinking as well. If you try to keep up with trade publications you are subject to the editorial selection process of the folks who...