Cloud & Infrastructure

Multiagency system tracks student progress from pre-K through employment

California’s Cradle-to-Career Data System aims to track student outcomes and show the relationships between education, workforce training, social services and employment.

  • By Susan Miller

School bus Wi-Fi qualifies for E-Rate, FCC chair says

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said broadband on school buses has been especially helpful in closing the homework gap.

  • By Susan Miller

How moving HR, finance to the cloud raised city efficiency, security

When Tampa moved its human capital management and enterprise resource planning to the Oracle cloud, it removed data silos across departments and boosted IT security.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

County completes 5-year telecom modernization

The VOIP upgrade allows Cook County to consolidate its telecommunications and data infrastructure.

  • By Susan Miller

Signals along 'Smart Spines' optimize traffic flow

With AI-powered adaptive signaling technology at nearly 150 city intersections, Pittsburgh plans to improve traffic flow and reduce idling times for buses.

  • By Shourjya Mookerjee

Internet service essentially free for millions under new Biden program

With a discount already in place, 20 companies have agreed to offer service for $30 a month. Advocacy groups are hoping states will adopt similar pricing requirements. 

  • By Kery Murakami

Cloud authorization ecosystem to expand, StateRAMP predicts

To meet demand for cloud security validations, the State Risk and Authorization Management Program is working to increase standardization and create bidirectional relationships with other security frameworks for criminal justice, tax or health data.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

NIST is building a 5G network to model cybersecurity for operators

NIST's draft publication is designed to clarify how cloud security capabilities can help protect a 5G network.

  • By Mariam Baksh

AWS launches digital twin service

The IoT TwinMaker service integrates data from multiple sources and creates a knowledge graph that connects data sources to virtual replicas of physical systems to accurately model real-world environments.

  • By Susan Miller

Why data centers call Virginia home

As the largest data center market in the world, Northern Virginia owes its No. 1 position to a rich history of high-speed connectivity and solid public/private partnerships.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

Survey: No clear winner in cloud wars

The biggest potential differentiator among hyperscale cloud providers is automation and migration services.

  • By Frank Konkel

TX-RAMP: Texas-friendly cloud security

The state’s risk and authorization management program ensures agencies find Texas-based businesses to provide secure cloud services.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

Analysis: Texans without high-speed internet are getting closer, slowly

Like other states, Texas found out during the pandemic how critical high-speed broadband is for school, work and medicine. And the state is working to expand it — but it’s going to be at least a year before Texans start to see results.

  • By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune

CISA seeks comments on securing cloud business applications

A new program aims to develop consistent, effective, modern and manageable security configurations that will help secure information assets stored within cloud environments.

  • By Mariam Baksh
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Arkansas outlines broadband connection plans

A hybrid fiber-wireless approach will provide the best near-term solution as future-proof fiber-to-the-home connections are built out.

  • By Susan Miller

Website makeover lessons drive intranet redesign

After cleaning up its citizen-facing website, the Los Angeles Department of Public Social Services is upgrading its intranet to support remote work.

  • By Stephanie Kanowitz

Chicago makes childhood education data accessible through new cloud

The Chicago Early Childhood Integrated Data System will bring together data from across systems and programs in neighborhood-level analyses and program-specific dashboards.

  • By Susan Miller

Ohio tees up GPU-powered high-performance cluster

The Ohio Supercomputer Center announced Ascend, a new high-performance computing cluster to support artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data and data analytics.

  • By Susan Miller

Pre-COVID modernization streamlined DMV services

Because North Carolina modernized its DMV portal prior to the pandemic, it could easily pivot to online driver’s permit applications, virtual queueing and automated license and tag renewals.

  • By Shourjya Mookerjee

Mismanaged cloud services put user data at risk

When cloud services are not properly managed, attackers can "squat" on unused cloud IP addresses to collect personal data intended for other organizations.

  • By Eric Pauley, The Conversation

Pardon application process moves online

Pennsylvania’s digitization of pardon applications is the first update to the paper-based process “since the advent of computers,” officials said.

  • By Susan Miller