Oregon capitol building

Oregon rides cloud to statewide records management system

The state is expanding a SaaS system using HP TRIM to give access to state, county and local agencies.

Mars Curiosity self portrait

The tech behind NASA's Martian chronicles

After Curiosity landed, JPL had to retrieve images from 150 million miles away via a low-bandwidth space network and deliver them to a voracious public quickly and without crashing websites. How did NASA do it?

Chicago Cloud Gate sculpture by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park

Chicago moving 30,000 employees' e-mail to Microsoft cloud

Cloud strategy is part of the city's move toward modernizing its digital infrastructure while improving employees' access to mobile tools and reaping significant cost savings.

Man looking at clouds over the Rocky Mountains

Western states build a platform for storing GIS data

Regional cooperation and sharing resources is the wave of the future, members of the 15-state alliance say.

Doorway on steps in the clouds

Appian Cloud app gets FISMA moderate security cert

GSA, which is using Appian Cloud's business process management app for acquisition planning, has upped its rating from FISMA low-level security.

Platforms in cloud

AWS changing PaaS before our eyes

With Amazon pushing the envelope on platform-as-as-service, public-sector IT managers should hold off on PaaS implementations until it shakes out -- or suffer vendor lock-in.

Cloud front moving in

5 ways the cloud gets disruptive in 2013

Agencies' steady march to the cloud will combine with disruptive technologies such as big data, analytics and mobile computing to push services in a new direction.

ADS-2500W scanner

Scanner sends docs directly to the cloud

Brother's ImageCenter ADS-2500W can scan documents and send them to cloud storage sites such as Google Docs, Evernote, Dropbox and more.

Identity verification

Agencies could get a cloud hub for trusted identities

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is considering commercial cloud services for authenticating third-party credentials of users accessing government websites.

DOE to broker its own cloud services

The department is taking a cloud brokerage approach to securely connecting a diverse set of users and partner organizations.

Server room with tablet showing usage stats

HP launches pay-per-use model for modernizing networks

Some analysts say the FlexNetwork Utility Advantage Program offers a new model for modernizing network infrastructure.

File and document sharing

Metalogix can boost agency collaboration, content sharing

Company's Content Matrix lets agencies smoothly migrate to newer versions of SharePoint and keep content organized on an ongoing basis.

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