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Evaluations
Evaluations
Product and technology choices, each judged against a book’s requirements with the evidence for and against
The Federal Modernization Workbook’s evaluations: products and technology options judged against the books’ requirements, with the evidence for and against each.
An evaluation helps you choose: it judges a product, or a set of options, against what a book requires, and records the evidence for and against each. It plays the part of the technology choice guides on Microsoft Learn, such as Technology choices for Azure solutions.
The books stay vendor-neutral: they set out what to achieve and why. An evaluation names products because a choice has to be made. Where it recommends one, that is the program’s own analysis, not an endorsement by any agency. Each page keeps its status label (draft or in review) until it is reviewed and proved; see Status labels.
| Title | Status | Reviewed | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud DNS on AWS, Azure and Oracle Cloud: Native Resolvers, Infoblox and BIND | in review | 2026-10-31 | Research under review: the Route 53 VPC Resolver (endpoints, forwarding and system rules, rule sharing through AWS RAM, DNS Firewall, query logging, private hosted zones, Profiles) the Azure DNS Private Resolver (endpoints, rulesets, DNS resolver policy) and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure VCN resolver (views, endpoints, rules), with GovCloud (US), Azure Government, Oracle US Government Cloud and FedRAMP scope as the providers state it; when to run Infoblox vNIOS or BIND in a cloud instead of, or beside, the native resolver; BIND roles, placement, forwarding, DNSSEC, response policy zones and CISA Protective DNS, logging, patching and configuration from Git; an alignment checklist; and the NIST SP 800-53 mapping. |
| Contractors as Oracle Contingent Workers: Choosing the Contractor Source of Truth | in review | 2026-10-29 | Research under review: whether contractors could be recorded as Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM contingent workers so one HR feed drives employees and contractors into Entra ID. It sets out what Oracle and Microsoft document about contingent workers, what the Federal HR 2.0 memo, solicitation and award say about scope, licensing and privacy, how agencies’ published privacy assessments and inspector general reports show contractors being sourced and deprovisioned, five options compared attribute by attribute against AC-2, PS-7, FIPS 201-3 and M-19-17, the contractor PIV path from sponsorship to revocation, and a phased, agency-neutral recommendation with decisions and owners. |
| Infoblox DDI for Federal Agencies | in review | 2026-10-22 | Research under review: a narrated technical deep dive on Infoblox NIOS and Universal DDI for federal agencies, with the requirements that drive the need, a fair comparison, the platform’s risks, and delegated administration for divisions. |
| SD-WAN and SASE Platforms Against Book 09’s Requirements | in review | 2026-10-24 | Research under review: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN and Prisma Access, Fortinet, HPE Aruba EdgeConnect, Arista VeloCloud, Juniper Session Smart, Zscaler and Microsoft Global Secure Access, checked against Book 09’s requirements using FedRAMP, CISA, NIST and NIAP records. |
| Trinzic Alone, or Trinzic Plus Cloud DDI? | in review | 2026-10-22 | Research under review: a narrated evaluation for architects learning DDI, on whether Infoblox Trinzic appliances can run an agency’s DNS, DHCP and IPAM alone or should be combined with vNIOS, Universal DDI or native cloud DNS for multi-cloud. |
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