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    Big Data, Mobility, Cloud Technologies Put Pressure on Federal IT

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    Nathan Eddy
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    September 16, 2013
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      Federal agencies plan to fully deploy data center consolidation, mobility, security, big data and cloud computing (the Big Five) efforts in the next two years, but their networks aren’t prepared for the additional capacity or complexity, which will result in network bottlenecks, according to a study released by MeriTalk, a public-private partnership focused on improving the outcomes of government IT, and underwritten by Brocade.

      While agencies have a long way to go in preparing their networks for the Big Five, the report indicated some agencies are laying the groundwork for the Big Five now. Forty-three percent of network managers report that they have taken steps to improve security measures, and 46 percent plan to do so. In addition, agencies have taken steps or plan to take steps to improve network policies, add bandwidth, increase openness and adherence to open standards, as well as reduce network latency.

      The majority of survey respondents said they are deploying or planning to deploy the Big Five by 2015. On average, network managers expect agency’s total network load to increase by 79 percent as a result of the Big Five. However, federal network managers said they do not believe today’s networks are ready, with 59 percent admitting that if the Big Five were fully deployed today they would be at or over their network’s capacity limits. In addition, four out of five–84 percent–of network managers said if deployed today, the Big Five would put them at risk for a network bottleneck.

      “With federal initiatives like Cloud First, FISMA and FDCCI, the Big Five are here to stay and they will vastly increase the traffic on legacy agency networks,” said Anthony Robbins, vice president of federal for Brocade. “Networks are the backbone of IT delivery in federal agencies, just as they are in the enterprise. As such, agencies need to take steps to prepare for increased network demands now–this includes ensuring networks are modernized to open standards and robust enough to handle the traffic.”

      To overcome these challenges, network managers expect to transform almost half of their agency’s infrastructure between now and 2015. But the study noted this transformation might be easier said than done, as agencies fail to take important steps to coordinate Big Five efforts.

      Just 45 percent of agencies are using the budget process to prioritize and pace the implementation of each initiative and only 35 percent are rolling all five initiatives up to one senior executive. The majority of agencies also fail to follow a single, standardized process for the implementation of all five initiatives or have the leads for all five initiatives meet regularly to coordinate.

      To further prepare for implementation of these technologies, network managers request clear prioritization from leadership (50 percent), standardized documentation of infrastructure requirements (47 percent), structured coordination across all initiatives (44 percent), consultation on all senior leaders’ Big Five plans prior to implementation (40 percent), and total ownership so they can respond as needed (31 percent).

      Nathan Eddy
      A graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Nathan was perviously the editor of gaming industry newsletter FierceGameBiz and has written for various consumer and tech publications including Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, CRN, and The Times of London. Currently based in Berlin, he released his first documentary film, The Absent Column, in 2013.

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