The Internet of Things will continue to balloon while we’ll all still struggle with extracting value from Big Data. Those are the headline predictions from DLT partner and IT asset management leader, BDNA, in its 2016 IT Predictions Report.

BDNA did a solid job of predicting the trends that dominated enterprise IT in 2015, so we’re curious to see how this year’s forecast will pan out.

Here’s a snapshot of what we can expect:

Bandwidth is one of those things we all take for granted, like electric power we don’t really pay attention to it until it’s gone. Then we get disgruntled.

So when an application is running slowly or a file won’t load, we tend to go straight to the IT helpdesk and complain about how slow the network seems to be. But is it really the bandwidth?

In the ever changing technology landscape, IT companies are constantly perfecting their products to keep up. We’re proud to be a partner of key IT providers to the government who continue to be relevant assets by consistently improving their offerings.

Catch up on a few of the recent product updates from our partners:

Well, not exactly.  Except for whatever delicious things you may have shopped for and purchased on Amazon, then no, Amazon is nowhere to be found in your body.  However, some really interesting research is taking place in the Amazon Web Services Cloud by NIH and the results could help your stomach lining stay healthy.

Whether seeking solutions to pressing problems, networking with like-minded professionals or researching products, professionals across nearly all industries benefit from participating in communities every day. For federal IT professionals specifically, online communities can be a goldmine of resources to help keep up with the constantly changing federal technology landscape.

Are you concerned that your agency’s federal year-end spending spree can lead to the wrong buying decisions? Federal CIO, Tony Scott, is.

“That’s just a really bad way to run IT,” said Scott at the Digital Government Institute’s 930Gov Conference in Washington, D.C. in late August.

With a background in the commercial sector (VMware, Microsoft and Disney), Scott is just getting used to the busy federal buying season that culminates in September, and he’s not liking it.

September is the heaviest buying season for federal agencies. This “use it or lose it” spending spree is decades old and a regular fixture on the calendars of procurement officials.

How to Make the Right IT Buying Decisions this Federal Year-End

Federal fiscal year-end. Busy, busy, busy! Given the plethora of companies competing for their share of fiscal year-end dollars, especially in the crowded IT market place, federal fiscal year-end is always a crazy time for procurement officials. The pressure is on to make the right buying decisions while moving the procurement process along as quickly as possible.

In my last post, I mentioned that a good use case for containers is managing application deployments.  I'm going to go a step further here and state that containers are the next evolution of application packaging and application run time separation.

Federal fiscal year-end is right around the corner, but is it really the busy buying season that we’ve come to expect?

As any Fed or politico knows, September is traditionally the month that keeps purchasing officers on their toes and budget hawks in attack mode. As budgets expire, agencies are often perceived as rushing to spend excess funds in order to avert any impact on future budget appropriations.

If you were ever in any doubt, new research proves that this “use it or lose it” tendency among federal agencies is a very real thing.