How to Help Small Businesses Survive a Flood
After a flood, 40% to 60% of small businesses close down. Lawmakers say improving infrastructure before disasters strike could help prevent that from happening.
MilCloud 2.0 migration is moving forward
Caroline Bean, DISA's MilCloud deputy program manager and lead engineer, explained where the migration stands and what to expect this year.
Trump and Democrats Agree to More Talks on $2 Trillion Infrastructure Package
They're slated to convene again in three weeks to discuss funding options.
USDA Accepting Applications to Fund Rural Broadband Services
The agency is making at least $600 million available and the pot is open to rural electrical cooperatives and municipalities, as well as telecom companies.
Bursting the Aquarium Bubble
Aquariums might seem like underwater wonderlands, but building a new one comes at a cost.
Shenango: improving data center efficiency
The system detects when time-sensitive applications would benefit from more compute power and orchestrates the reallocation of packets across server cores.
GPUs usher in a new era in government analytics
Today's GPUs can handle artificial intelligence, machine learning and other high-performance tasks, making them a vital component of digital transformation, better public service and improved national security.
Containers and hybrid IT: Plenty of benefits, but one big challenge
Containers offer some enormous advantages for IT administrators working with different types of clouds, but they also introduce unique challenges when it comes to monitoring.
Opening supercomputing to all agencies
The combination of the hybrid cloud and Linux containers makes high-performance computing attainable –- even for organizations without the budget or supercomputing expertise inherent in larger agencies.
Army pushes enterprise IT toward the cloud
The Enterprise IT as a Service pilot will assess whether private-sector IT infrastructure investments, operations and best practices will work for the Army and support the investments the service has made in its network.
Cloud powers survey of industrial seismic activity
Seismologists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are using cloud computing to conduct a continent-scale survey for seismic signatures of industrial activity, cutting the time it took to complete the work from days to hour.
Cloud-based learning system for federal courts
The Federal Court System wants its tens of thousands of court employees across the county to be able to access training and other applications from the cloud.
How to improve data management at your agency
A software-defined storage platform operates across IT environments regardless of whether they are on-premise, in the cloud or a hybrid of both.
Could Hawaii Be Paradise For Hydrogen-Powered Public Transit?
Hawaii has been overhauling its transportation systems, and hydrogen-powered public transit may be next.
Microsoft moves on classified cloud
Two new Azure Government Secret regions are in private preview and pending accreditation, Microsoft says.
How Historic Ellicott City Plans to Survive the Next Flood
After catastrophic storms in 2016 and 2018, the Maryland mill town has five flood control plans. But it faces hard choices on how to avoid future disasters.
Civic Crowdfunding Reduces the Risk of Bike Lane Opposition
COMMENTARY | This collective fundraising technique helps defuse anti-cyclist sentiment before it dooms protected bike lanes and other new infrastructure.
Arkansas Changes Its Mind on Municipal Broadband
Eight years after banning cities and towns from building high-speed internet networks, state lawmakers unanimously reversed course. Will more red states follow?
FCC Rural Broadband Fund Would Shift Money From Existing Program
The $20 billion proposed initiative would also set higher standards for internet speeds.
Latest timeline for JEDI cloud contract
Federal Claims Judge Eric Bruggink lifted a stay on an Oracle lawsuit against the procurement and approved a new timeline for the matter, including a new date for oral arguments.
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