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Whitepapers
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General
- Toward a More Innovative Government
- Collaborative Solutions for Innovative Government
- Are you controlling software costs? Or are software costs controlling you?
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Edition
- Accenture and Red Hat solutions
- Red Hat: The government’s secure & trusted choice for open source solutions
- Closing the IT delivery gap in government with secure, hybrid cloud
- Choosing an enterprise platform for big data
- FICO using OpenShift
- Robust solutions for continuous diagnostics mitigation
- Securing while innovating: Government security with Red Hat
- Open First: More open government with open data and open source
Virtualization
Cloud computing
- Solving security challenges for government cloud-based IT environments
- How Open Source Cloud Technology Can Eliminate IT Silos
PaaS
- The Power of PaaS
- Accelerating Your DevOps Journey in the Public Sector
- Red Hat JBoss xPaaS services for OpenShift
- Picking the Right PaaS
Storage
Middleware
Videos
- Red Hat's Ashesh Badani talks open source and the digital divide
- Red Hat's Adam Clater on federal government's 'rich history' with open source
- Red Hat Government Symposium 2015: Everything from Dev to Ops
- Government meets mission-critical IT demands with freedom of open source
- Red Hat's Gunnar Hellekson on the evolution of open source
- Canary Islands Government relies on Red Hat
- Red Hat's Paul Smith on open source trends
- Red Hat CloudForms: The role of appliances and architecture overview
- Networking with OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 by Red Hat
- Persistent storage in Red Hat OpenShift
- Red Hat Ceph Storage network and security design principles
Webinars
General
Cloud computing
- Advantages of Migrating to the Cloud Using OpenStack
- Government's Step by Step Path to the Cloud
- The Big Switch: Government Infrastructure in the Cloud
- Middleware for Government Cloud Based Integration
- Government as a Platform: Connecting the Dots
- Tips for Managing Your Hybrid Cloud Environment
Middleware
Storage
Mobile
In the press
Get more in-depth information about Red Hat and open source in government.
General
- Open source speeds innovation, plays major role in NASA's mission (CIO, 2016-07-11)
- HCI Opportunities in Agency IT (GCN, 2016-06-24)
- Choosing an OS for Military IoT Systems (Military Embedded Systems, 2016-05-31)
- Avoiding Common Hang-ups in DevOps Pipelines (GCN, 2016-05-12)
- An Important Fix for the Federal Open Source Software Policy (GCN, 2016-04-13)
- Embedded systems, meet the Internet of Things (Military Embedded Systems, 2015-8-20)
- Open source exploding, generating benefits in new areas ( 2016-11-02)
Cloud computing
- Microsoft and Red Hat Position Themselves to Expand Federal Presence (Bloomberg Government Blog, 2016-08-01)
- Agencies open up to OpenStack (FedScoop, 2016-06-02)
- What Government Needs to Know About the Cloud (NextGov, 2016-05-09)
- 4 Steps to Consider When Creating a Cloud Strategy in 2016 (Nextgov, 2016-05-06)
- The University of Cambridge Chooses Red Hat as OpenStack Partner for HPC-as-a-Service Offering and Upstream Collaboration (2016-04-26)
- NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab moves to OpenStack Cloud Platform (FedScoop, 2016-04-25)
- Where cloud computing meets mission: Maximizing the cloud's potential (Nextgov, 2015-7-20)
PaaS
- North Carolina transforms its state websites (Red Hat, 2016-05-26)
- What's really required to make application modernization work (GCN, 2015-12-09)
- PaaS the time: How platform-as-a-service is speeding up federal IT (GCN, 2015-8-31)
Security
- How to make sure every DOD cloud has a security lining (FedScoop, 2015-7-21)
Mobile
- 5 steps to a mobile-first strategy (GCN, 2016-07-25)
- More steps to making mobile-first a winning strategy (GCN, 2016-09-19)
Government events
Find government-related open source and Red Hat events.
- Twentynine Palm Tech Day, Twentynine Palms, CA (2016-11-15)
- TechNet Asia-Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii (2016-11-15 through 2016-11-17)
- ACE Alamo, Austin, TX (2016-12-05 through 2016-12-08)
- Mobile Technology Summit, Washington DC (2017-01-03)
- AFCEA CyberSpace Symposium, Colorado Springs, CO (2017-02-06 through 2017-02-09)
- AFCEA West, San Diego, CA (2017-02-21 through 2017-02-23)
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