Ep. 254 How QTS Is Powering Digital Transformation for Federal Data Centers
Release Date: 07/01/2025
Ep. 274 How Fortreum can help protect executives
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? It is difficult to pinpoint an exact number, but some statistics show an executive is five times more likely to be attacked than a regular employee. It makes sense. If you receive a suspicious email from a fellow employee, do not respond. However, if you receive an email from the CEO, you are more likely to react more aggressively. In today's interview, Richard Fleeman and Ricky Freeman from Fortreum Labs discussed the increased risk executives face, citing a 74% human error rate in breaches. How do...
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Ep. 269 Overcoming Cross Domain Barriers in Federal Security
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? The federal government manages a great deal of sensitive information that it is reluctant to share with other agencies or organizations. However, isolation means important decision-making data can be inadvertently withheld from leaders. The simple term "collaborate" can be easily applied in a classroom. Still, it becomes almost impossible with petabytes of data that have varying levels of security, such as classified, secret, and top secret. Even if the puzzle of sharing data is solved, the issue of data...
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Ep. 268 Federal Tech Leaders: Key Digital Shifts to Watch at Google’s Public Sector Summit
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? Sometimes, a company becomes so large that it is difficult to be specific about how it can help any organization, especially one as vast as the federal government. Today, we sit down with Ron Bushar, Chief Information Security Officer & Managing Director – Google Public Sector. We address many of the significant concerns federal technology leaders have regarding topics such as cloud-native, edge computing, and Zero Trust. This is a rudimentary overview of working with Google Public Sector. If you...
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Ep. 267 How Virtualitics Helps Federal Agencies Prepare for AI at Scale
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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? Virtualitics, a company spun out of Caltech and NASA JPL in 2016, focuses on applying advanced AI to mission-critical challenges, including asset availability, personnel readiness, and supply chain optimization. During the interview, Rob Bocek, Chief Revenue Officer at Virtualitics, provides listeners with insight into how his company can enhance Air Force readiness while ensuring explainability and democratizing AI. Sometimes, AI is described as a “black box” where one pours in data and out pops an...
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Ep. 266 Inside the Push to Build Smarter Digital Solutions Across Federal Agencies
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? In 1987 Microsoft introduced PowerPoint, it is one of the few applications that has endured almost four decades! Today, we look at some options that incorporate more flexible ways to innovate. Charles Firey from Excella provides listeners three ways to make a transition from PowerPoint to modern applications. He discusses setting temporary instances of a modification, making sure this approach is consistent, and where to look for opportunities to apply this dynamic method. Sandbox. Instead of...
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Ep. 265 Fortreum’s Cybersecurity Foundation for Digital Security
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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? In boardrooms across America, members are slowly starting to notice the proliferation of cyber-attacks. It is one thing to recognize the danger, quite another to do something about it. Board members may ask, how does a company’s risk profile compare to others? What is a reasonable amount of money to budget for cybersecurity? What about company growth & change? Are there tools to use to approximate risk level? Today, Ben Scudera from Fortreum jumps feet first and answers the tough questions Ben admits...
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Ep. 264 How Automation is Accelerating Digital Transformation Across Federal Agencies
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Ep. 264 How Automation Is Accelerating Digital Transformation Across Federal Agencies Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? In this episode of the Federal Tech Podcast, host John Gilroy interviews Nabil Amiri, Vice President of Business Development for the federal practice at NWN. The discussion introduces NWN’s expanding role in helping federal agencies adopt advanced technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), as part of broader digital transformation efforts. Amiri explains NWN’s recent acquisition of Leverage Information, a...
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Ep. 263 How Microsoft Drives Cloud-Powered Transformation in Federal Agencies
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Ep. 263 How Microsoft Drives Cloud-Powered Transformation in Federal Agencies Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? Microsoft has been a behemoth in the world of information technology since its founding in 1985. The only way to understand how Microsoft can impact the federal government is to take a topic like AI and conduct a thorough analysis. Today, we sat down with Wole Moses, the Chief AI Officer for Microsoft Federal. He shares his perspective on how Microsoft's innovation can help federal agencies achieve their ambitious...
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Ep. 262 How Qualtrics Is Powering Better UX Across Federal Websites
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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? Today, we discuss the importance of user experience for federal websites with guests Amanda Chavez and Rishi Vajpayee from Qualtrics. The expansion covers topics such as cost savings, automation, and the impact of unstructured data on how websites provide information. COST SAVINGS Older systems in the federal government may have been designed to optimize for one function. When new administrations are elected, it is possible that alterations can be made, and the existing system can lead to inefficiency and...
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Ep. 261 Technology's Role in Improving Force and Well Being
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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? The current administration has a focus on reducing costs while also improving the delivery of goods and services. When it comes to handling data, innovations in code generated by artificial intelligence have enabled this remarkable goal. The challenge arises when transitioning from the data center to the hospital. " Fail early" may be a mantra for a software developer, but in a healthcare situation, it is unacceptable. Today, we sat down with two executives from Phillips and explored the value of...
info_outlineSeventy percent of the world's internet traffic goes through Ashburn, Virginia. That fact has led to the growth of over five hundred data centers in Northern Virginia. Today, we sat down with one of those companies to examine its data centers and its relationship with the federal government.
John Reynolds is the Director of QTS Federal. He has decades of experience in federal technology and provides the listener with an overview of QTS's origins, its values, and recent growth.
He views the data center business as a real estate endeavor. Land is acquired, a facility is constructed, and it has occupants. A company like Amazon Web Services have their dedicated data centers; QTS can house several different customers. We do not know the specific names; we can assume they are as large as Facebook and encompass federal agencies of all types.
Facebook may require one set of standards when it comes to security, and the NIST provides guidelines for federal data protection, which QTS includes as part of its compliance. The company participates in the community and understands the impact of energy requirements and cooling for local communities.
John Reynolds highlights the importance of resilience with multi-layered power redundancy and advanced energy contracts. QTS is also expanding into Europe and exploring alternative power sources due to grid limitations.