The proliferation and virtualization of mobile computing environmentswhich is inextricably linked to the massive adoption of mobilityhas reshaped the federal government IT landscape. The key is to be able to leverage the profound productivity impact of mobility while ensuring security.
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Federal agencies today routinely offer teleworking arrangements to employees, allow users to collaborate with other decision-makers without leaving the office, enable employees to work on the fly via mobile technology, incorporate social media into communication to citizens, and offer a host of online-based services to the public. While these advances enhance productivity and citizen satisfaction, they also introduce many more points of potential network vulnerability.
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State and local governments struggle with constrained budgets to provide more digital services to constituentsfrom standard online services to emergency notifications that affect public health and safety. To meet these IT demands, agencies are looking to the cloud. However, moving to cloud can require new tools and processeseven recoding.
Meet Agency IT Needs with a Hybrid Cloud
The public cloud is an attractive option for state and local governments because it promises increased IT agility and scalability while lowering costs. But public clouds also introduce complexity, interoperability, and security concerns.
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Healthcare providers face unique IT challenges, as they want to drive down costs and improve patient care, but they also must comply with HIPAA and other government mandates. With looming deadlines, such as meeting the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act meaningful use requirements, healthcare providers are looking to virtualization and cloud computing to provide the flexibility and efficiency benefits they need to meet their agility and compliance goals, at lower cost.
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As healthcare reform deadlines rapidly approach, choosing the right information technology (IT) platform will be critical to the success or failure of new services and exchanges. Download this paper to learn how vCloud for Healthcare helps transform the cost, quality and delivery of patient care while providing the necessary control and transparency for regulated organizations to establish and maintain compliance in their virtual and cloud environments.
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Before an organization invests in a technology solution, it must first prove why the purchase makes sense financially. This can sometimes be tricky in a healthcare environment. To ease this process, VMware developed a return on investment/ total cost of ownership (ROI TCO) model that focuses on three common workflows in healthcare: Shared clinical workstation, clinical imaging, and ubiquitous dictation.
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As federal agencies turn to the cloud more often, they are opting for more hybrid options, keeping some data on-site while migrating other applications and information.
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Four years have passed since the release of the White House's Cloud First strategy, aimed at encouraging agencies to implement cloud services.