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Connected Government in Action

Secure Information-Sharing Architecture:
The Storage Aspect

Communities of interest can share information more readily and reduce costs by sharing a common storage infrastructure. However, members need assurance that their confidential information will remain private, both in transit and at rest. Specifically, each department’s or agency’s information must be kept separate as it travels over the storage area network (SAN), resides on shared storage media, or is stored on shared workstations. This article explains how agencies and departments can confidently
share a common SAN and storage infrastructure using the data protection services layer of the Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA). More

Fostering Trust, the Essential Human Ingredient
of Information Sharing

Giving federal employees the tools for interagency collaboration is just one ingredient for information sharing. Another major ingredient is personal trust, which develops over time as people interact and develop confidence that the information will be used as intended. Federal government can foster trust within and between public- and private-sector agencies with communications technologies that help personnel be more accessible, let them see each other’s faces, and give them confidence that their communications are secure. More

The Greening of Federal Data Centers

The obvious benefits of reducing power consumption in data centers are environmental responsibility and lower power costs. There’s a little known ancillary benefit that is also compelling. That is, the same network technologies that reduce power requirements, such as virtualization and branch infrastructure consolidation, also facilitate the information sharing that’s central to a connected government. More

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