Comments on: Help Gartner Define Its Government Research Agenda for 2010

By: Rich Towers

Rich Towers — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:55:56 +0000

I’m including below the feedback we’ve seen from our customers regarding technology, IT management and economic challenges. The focus on efficiency, particularly in government IT, coincides with both the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, requiring 30% energy reduction by 2015 at federal buildings; and President Obama’s Executive Order # 13514, establishing goals for the reduction of emissions in all federal facilities by 2020 and implementing best practices for energy-efficient management of servers and federal data centers. From our Data Center Users Group, we’ve also seen an increase in concern for availability and monitoring alongside efficiency, whereas energy efficiency has dominated the past couple of years. Data center managers seem to be placing more value on this balance than ever before.

Technology issues
1. Energy efficiency/savings and green technologies
2. Flexibility and adaptability to ever shifting demands
3. Reliability and availability

IT management issues
1. IT asset management and effective utilization
2. Reliability and availability of virtualized application
3. Change management/workflow automation and standards

Economic challenges
1. Flat to shrinking budgets with increased demand for service
2. Service-level agreements without the funding to support preventive maintenance to ensure maximum uptime
3. Aging data centers/critical physical infrastructure without the capital funding for upgrades and replacements

By: THarwood

THarwood — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:11:10 +0000

Technologies – semantic web, virtual worlds interoperability, privacy; Management – security, mobile/presence, open innovation; Economic challenges – IP, inclusivity, sustainability

By: Teresita A Krueger

Teresita A Krueger — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:03:03 +0000

3 top technologies
Cloud ( and SaaS)
Next Gen wireless
security & privacy

IT Mgmt Issues
training of nxt gen SW developers and architects
lower operational costs
new geos for outsourcing portfolios

Economic challenges
The Gov’t weakening revenue base
knowledge gap left by retiring work population
lack of political will to support shared serivices among agencies/depts to consolidate, lower costs, eliminate redundancies

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uberVU - social comments — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:54:39 +0000

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By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:23:59 +0000

Top 3 technology issues:
1) Cloud computing
2) Security
3) Social Software

Top 3 IT Management Issues
1) retaining staff in an era of budget cuts
2) retraining for modern skills such as cloud, SOA and open source
3) budget and portfolio management

Top 3 economic challenges
1) Govt is lagging private sector in economic cycles: large budget cuts expected
2) political pressure to “buy local”
3) supporting business agility

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