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Technology Insights for Leaders in State & Local Government

April/May 2008

Features
Enhanced Emergency Systems
Localities bring public safety communication into the 21st century with new technology that extends interoperability.
Recipe for Governance
A choice concoction of people, process and technology can help lower costs and improve service to users.
Righting the Ship
Is your IT project in danger of sinking? Act fast and apply these fixes to salvage the situation.
Keep an Eye Out
Government agencies deploy Internet monitoring and filtering technologies to oversee employee activity.
Departments
Tech Trends: Virtualizing Desktops
Deployments strengthen security and cut maintenance costs.
Tech Trends: Protective Order
The Louisiana Supreme Court and other state and local agencies rely on continuous data protection to recover data.
Best Practices: A Fit for Government IT
The city of Fort Wayne, Ind., enhanced IT processes by embracing Six Sigma. Find out how to implement this methodology.
Best Practices: Secure Storage
Sensitive data at rest is the most vulnerable data of all. Experts share their suggestions on how and where to protect it.
Best Practices: Supporting Teleworkers
Organizations apply a mix of technologies to protect the network and better manage remote clients.
Tech Forward: Computing Fabrics
Data center virtualization treats server, storage and network resources as a single pool.
Tech Forward: Dense Disks
Emerging 3-D holographic storage is poised to be the next great archival medium.
Interview: Talking Tech in Michigan
Wolverine State IT leader Ken Theis reflects on his new role.