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ADVANCE MISSION SUCCESS
Six Best Practices for Modernizing Government IT
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Digital Transformation in GovernmentIT modernization advances the mission objectives
of government organizations around the world.
From large federal departments to local public safety
bureaus, digital transformation initiatives move
agencies toward more secure, agile, and cost-effective
infrastructure and applications, empowering workers
and citizens.
The challenges posed by modernizing IT make it
imperative to choose the right partner. VMware offers
a pragmatic, value-added path to IT modernization
that taps the power of data centers, cloud, mobility,
and security to improve operations and contain costs.
Today, federal, national, state, and local agencies
advance their digital transformation journeys with
VMware. This e-book examines the best practices
government leaders embrace when they team with
VMware as their IT modernization partner of choice.
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
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Server Virtualization Was Just the BeginningAs a foundation for IT modernization, virtualization—
pioneered by VMware—helped agencies efficiently
deal with increasing demand for IT services
while reducing hardware, energy, and operational
costs. It also led to more dynamic and agile
computing environments.
Today, additional virtualization and advanced
technologies from VMware are at the core of data
center modernization, transforming security, extending
to any cloud, and supporting the delivery of apps,
data, and information—any time, on any device,
wherever work needs to be done.
“ We knew that we needed a virtualization
solution to have agility and security
across IT systems statewide. The work
we’ve done with VMware…will serve as a
model for other states looking to
consolidate and streamline their IT
operations while improving security.”
— Michael Allison Chief Technology Officer State of Louisiana Division of Administration/OTS
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
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IT Modernization Best Practices Government agencies working with VMware take an
evolutionary, not revolutionary, approach to IT
modernization. These six best practices are among
the ways top government agencies accelerate digital
transformation with VMware.
1. Boost Agility with a Software-Defined Foundation
2. Improve Operational Efficiency Through
IT Automation
3. Support Application Innovation
4. Meet Changing Mission Needs on Demand
5. Transform Cybersecurity with a Software Layer
6. Increase Productivity Through Mobility
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
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1. Boost Agility with a Software-Defined Foundation
A modernized data center is virtualized, automated,
standardized, and extensible across private, public,
and hybrid clouds, making it ideal for innovation.
Governed by software, a modern data center meets
increasing agency requirements to deliver IT services
faster and at scale while improving cybersecurity and
employee productivity. It enables existing IT staff to
support on-premises legacy applications and future,
cloud-based architectures, including cloud-ready
development platforms and ecosystem partners,
without ripping and replacing systems.
As the optimal foundation for agility, a software-
defined data center (SDDC) includes
• Virtualized compute – Consolidate servers, increase
efficiency, and improve workload performance
using virtual machines as the foundation for your
modern data center. For more than a decade,
agencies have benefitted from VMware vSphere®.
• Virtualized storage – Drastically simplify storage
management, improve utilization, and lower TCO
with a future-proof, hyper-converged platform built
for cloud and application changes. vSphere uses
VMware vSAN™ as its native, software-defined
storage platform.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
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TAKE A TOUR The Modern Data Center
• Virtualized networking – Streamline cumbersome
networking and security management tasks, and
better protect individual workloads with network
virtualization that attaches network, automation,
and security policies to individual workloads and
applications via the hypervisor. VMware NSX®
leads the industry in this category.
By combining the foundational capabilities of the
SDDC with a common management platform,
agencies can seamlessly extend from internal data
centers to any public, private, or hybrid cloud and
endpoint for the increased agility needed to meet
changing requirements, whether they are from
constituents, employees, or in the context of
budgetary or regulatory shifts.
Modernize your data centers for greater flexibility:
• Virtualize compute, storage, and networking.
• Move applications to the cloud when and where it makes sense.
• Automate and standardize management across the infrastructure.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
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2. Improve Operational Efficiency Through IT Automation
Cost containment is key to the stewardship of public
dollars. Every agency recognizes it, but doing more
with less continues to challenge teams stretched by
the upkeep of legacy systems and proliferating
endpoints. Furthermore, reliance on traditional high-
touch, manual lifecycle management, provisioning, and
delivery of IT services impacts availability, performance,
and resource allocation. IT automation helps agencies
dramatically improve resource efficiency.
With end-to-end virtualization, centralized
management, and IT automation, agencies
• Eliminate wait times for provisioned infrastructure
and applications.
• Standardize configurations.
• Reduce unnecessary rework.
• Respond faster to requests for new IT services.
The enterprise-ready, complete cloud management
platform from VMware is the ideal solution for
agencies seeking to manage, monitor, and automate
data center and heterogeneous, hybrid cloud
infrastructure. It improves consistency, quality, and
time-to-mission readiness with standardized
blueprints for application environments, decreasing
time spent deploying infrastructure and applications
or responding to IT service requests.
For example, a U.S. federal civilian agency delivers
private cloud services to globally dispersed offices
using an intelligent, automated, hyper-converged
infrastructure. As a result, the agency has reduced
TCO of the overall IT environment by 50 percent,
lowered storage capital costs by 33 percent, and
exceeded application performance, consolidation,
and shared services goals.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
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“ We needed to change from a physical,
client-server, manual-touch business model
to a totally virtualized, cloud-delivered
infrastructure-as-a-service model. That
would give us a platform on which we
could efficiently automate operations.”
— IT Director U.S. Federal Agency
Automate IT across your data centers and hybrid cloud:
• Gain policy-driven, automated delivery of production-ready infrastructure, apps, and custom IT services.
• Unify monitoring and automate performance management across apps and infrastructure.
• View real-time log management and analytics across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
• Automate costing, usage metering, and service pricing of virtualized infrastructure.
READ THE GUIDE Modernizing the Data Center
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
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3. Support Application Innovation
Today’s cloud-native applications require modern
development frameworks and infrastructure stacks,
which complicates legacy modernization efforts and
delays new service delivery models. To keep up with
new technologies and mission requirements, agencies
need a way to support next-gen app development by
giving developers ready-to-consume access to
modern, production-grade, secure, highly available
frameworks and resources.
Agencies interested in supporting all methods of app
development, including third-party container solutions
and OpenStack, now have a solution using a common
vSphere platform to ensure applications can be
moved seamlessly and securely from development
to production.
In response to defense customers’
requests for cloud-native applications,
U.S. federal government contractor,
Intelligent Software Solutions, gives
developers access to virtualized Docker
containers using VMware vSphere
Integrated Containers™. The on-premises
solution allows developers to spin up
instances of the service and speed time
to market of cloud-native applications
without worrying about back-end
infrastructure or interoperability.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
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VIEW THE VIDEO Intelligent Software Solutions
Simplify Running Modern Applications with VMware
• Deploy and consume container services with production-grade Kubernetes – VMware® Pivotal Container Service (PKS) radically simplifies the deployment and operation of Kubernetes clusters on vSphere.
• Boost developer productivity with open APIs – VMware Integrated OpenStack makes it easy for IT to give developers simple, standard, vendor-neutral OpenStack API access to VMware infrastructure.
• Run containerized apps alongside existing workloads – vSphere Integrated Containers enables agencies to run all apps without having to build a separate, specialized container infrastructure stack.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
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The California Natural Resources Agency
(CNRA) partnered with VMware to
consolidate 24 data centers and operate its
hybrid cloud at peak efficiency. The agency
automated management, delivery, and
monitoring of all IT services across private
and public clouds with the VMware SDDC
and cloud management platform, VMware
vRealize® Suite, increasing capacity by 300
percent, reducing its physical footprint by
more than 60 percent, and reducing CapEx
and OpEx by more than 50 percent.
4. Meet Changing Mission Needs on Demand
Cloud is a strategy, not a destination. Yet without
a common operating environment, managing
workloads across on-premises, public, and hybrid
clouds often becomes inefficient. Successful cloud
deployments enable agencies to manage workloads
where it makes sense—on premises, or in a public
or private cloud—depending on application type,
program, or mission function.
Extend to Public Cloud VMware leads in ensuring interoperability, enabling
agencies to run workloads anywhere without having
to commit to one vendor or rewrite application code.
The largest public cloud providers, Amazon Web
Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and IBM SoftLayer,
in addition to the robust VMware Cloud Verified
partner network, team with VMware on hybrid
cloud solutions that are compatible with VMware
infrastructure. This compatibility enables agencies
to extend on-premises vSphere infrastructure to
commercial and government clouds based on
vSphere, and move workloads back and forth using
a common toolset for management and monitoring.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
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VMware Cloud™ on AWS brings the VMware SDDC to the AWS Cloud as an on-demand service. Powered by VMware Cloud Foundation™, the service integrates vSphere, vSAN, and NSX along with VMware vCenter® management, and is optimized to run on dedicated, elastic, bare-metal AWS infrastructure using familiar VMware tools and a broad range of AWS services.
READ THE WHITE PAPER Guiding Principles for Successful Cloud Adoption in Government
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
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5. Transform Cybersecurity with a Software Layer
Security remains the top IT priority for every
government agency. A software-defined approach to
infrastructure extends to security, better safeguarding
data and applications through a defense-in-depth
approach to mitigating risk.
More operationally efficient than hardware, agencies
can use software for ubiquitous abstraction of
physical resources across their entire IT environment:
infrastructure, apps, networks, and endpoint devices.
This abstraction, pioneered by VMware, enables full
visibility, context, and control of interactions between
users, apps, and devices while also allowing for the
insertion of third-party security and compliance
services. This same open and ubiquitous architecture
provides comprehensive policy-based governance,
automation, monitoring, and identity-based
conditional access to provisioned resources.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
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Control Lateral Movement Inside Your Data CenterBecause traditional perimeter-centric network
security doesn’t solve the growing problem of attacks
targeting data centers, there’s NSX, the software-
defined networking solution. NSX enables granular
firewalling and security policy enforcement for every
workload in the data center:
• Eliminate server-to-server threats within the
data center.
• Reduce errors and inefficiencies inherent in a
physical networking environment.
• Ensure security policies move with the application.
• Reduce scope of compliance by isolating the systems
that store, process, or transmit sensitive data.
Across users, apps, and data, VMware helps
successfully protect interactions while mitigating risk,
preventing data loss, and keeping pace with current
and emerging threats.
READ THE WHITE PAPER Core Principles of Cyber Hygiene in a World of Cloud and Mobility
As the first software-defined networking solution with a published Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG), NSX meets the security hardening guidance required for installment on Department of Defense (DoD) networks. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has also released a STIG for vSAN, vSphere, and VMware AirWatch®.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
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6. Increase Productivity Through Mobility
Modern infrastructure enhances agency agility and
flexibility while providing an architecture that securely
mobilizes government employees.
The Digital Workspace Today’s workforce demands a forward-thinking
approach to tasks and workflows, with the flexibility
of mobile access to data and applications. A digital
workspace platform, such as VMware Workspace
ONE™, integrates access control, application
management, and multiplatform endpoint management
to deliver secure access to data, apps, and IT services
from any device or location while maintaining a
consumer-like user experience.
Mobile devices don’t confine the digital workspace;
it also includes virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that
modernizes the workstation experience for deskbound
and remote office workers. VDI enables IT to centrally
manage and deliver desktops and applications through
a single virtualization platform for more cost-efficient,
secure desktop and application delivery. With VDI,
agencies can easily migrate to Windows 10 with
minimal disruption, and seamlessly manage legacy
apps side by side with modern software-as-a-service
(SaaS) and web-based apps.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
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— Cliff DuPuy Director of Technical Services Mecklenburg County North Carolina
“ The benefits of using VMware are in hardware
cost avoidance and time savings. It equals out
to be about $3.2 million cost avoidance per
year for the organization. That’s money that
we can put back into services for the citizens
of Mecklenburg County.”
READ THE REPORT VMware’s Move to a Digital Workspace: An Analysis of Deploying VMware Workspace ONE
When agencies deploy the digital workspace, from
field workers to warfighters, they are
• Providing a modern interface and self-service app
catalog for unmatched user experience
• Empowering field-based personnel with single
sign-on access to unclassified data from any app
(legacy, Windows, Office 365, SaaS, cloud native),
device, or operating system
• Enabling the centralized management of users,
apps, and devices from a single console
• Offloading cumbersome IT management tasks,
including full application and PC lifecycle
management
• Providing real-time visibility into user, device,
and application behavior across locations, and
over-the-air delivery of apps, policies, and
updates, further streamlining management and
strengthening cybersecurity
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
Consistent User Experience from Patrol to Barracks to Court
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The Connected OfficerInside and outside the vehicle,
officers have secure, reliable access to information and
systems through a consistent and predictable digital workspace.
The Connected CarOfficer’s on-patrol vehicle has
mobile device access to and integration with RadioIP, records
management and computer-aided dispatch systems, CJIS database, Office 365, satellite mapping, the
Internet, and more.
On-Scene ResolutionIntelligence and analytics fed into real-time crime centers and state/federal agencies. Citizens receive timely information across social media and community policing apps.
Mobile Office Solution for Law Enforcement
VMware digital workspace solution to enable
secure, real-time access to critical information
across devices from the station to the patrol car,
on foot, and at the scene.
The Digital Workspace in Action: A Mobile Office for Every OfficerAware and efficient field operations keep
communities safe. Law enforcement uses the
Data is protected and CJIS compliant over the
air and on the device9-1-1 call center dispatch and real-time response. Seamless
lookup of call location and prior visits. Coordination with county resources, including
fire and EMT.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
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READ THE BRIEF Creating Smart Cities
Taming the Internet of Things As more and more connected devices enter
government workplaces, agency IT teams will be
confronted with interoperability and security
questions. How will Internet of Things (IoT) devices be
configured, secured, managed, and monitored, from
the edge to the cloud? A single platform, such as
VMware Pulse™ IoT Center™, supports agencies’
enterprise-grade IoT success. From smart buildings
and cities to optimized supply chain management,
fleet telematics, and digital citizenship, the
opportunities for new government services and
cost-cutting measures are endless. With VMware,
agencies can leverage IT to evolve and innovate,
without reinventing the wheel.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
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Advance Mission Success with IT Modernization and VMware Groundbreaking software-defined solutions
modernize IT, accelerating digital transformation
for national, regional, state, and local governments
around the world. Position your agency for IT
modernization success with VMware.
Tap into a World-Class Team Dedicated to Government VMware understands the unique requirements of
government IT, making VMware technology solutions
built on a virtualized, software-defined approach to
IT even more advantageous for agencies seeking to
preserve investments in point solutions.
In the years since VMware introduced the concept of
server virtualization to government organizations,
VMware solutions have been used by all 15 U.S.
Cabinet departments, including all DoD agencies,
services, and joint commands; throughout both the
legislative and judicial branches; and across all 50
states and thousands of municipality, county, and city
governments. With VMware, you’re partnering with
a dedicated team of government leaders, engineers,
and subject-matter experts as well as best-in-class
security, support, and solutions architects.
Benefit from Long-Standing Partner RelationshipsThe VMware portfolio of data center and multicloud
IT solutions supporting the end-to-end IT framework,
from the data center to endpoint devices, serves the
entire government IT landscape. Our deeply
integrated partnerships across government systems
integrators and technology providers—including Dell,
Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and IBM—accelerate IT
modernization initiatives securely and effectively.
Take an evolutionary, not revolutionary, approach to
IT modernization in support of your mission goals.
Modernize IT with best practices and technologies
from VMware.
Learn more at www.vmware.com/go/government.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN GOVERNMENT
SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WAS JUST THE BEGINNING
IT MODERNIZATION BEST PRACTICES
1. BOOST AGILITY WITH A SOFTWARE-DEFINED FOUNDATION
2. IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH IT AUTOMATION
3. SUPPORT APPLICATION INNOVATION
4. MEET CHANGING MISSION NEEDS ON DEMAND
5. TRANSFORM CYBERSECURITY WITH A SOFTWARE LAYER
6. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH MOBILITY
ADVANCE SUCCESS WITH IT MODERNIZATION AND VMWARE
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