Smart cloud helps cities manage events, services
Delivered in the IBM SmartCloud, the Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) helps users monitor citywide operations by collecting, visualizing and analyzing operational data from multiple sources.
Los Angeles County opts for Office 365
More than 120,000 county and law enforcement staff in Los Angeles County will migrate to Office 365 as part of an agreement that will also consolidate 15 department contracts into one.
NuCivic launches 'truly' open SaaS, open data platform
The Drupal-based NuData open-source, open data platform aims to help governments comply with open data mandates and help developers build businesses based on government data.
NASA launches challenges using OpenNEX data
The open data challenges will use the Open NASA Earth Exchange (OpenNEX), an Amazon Web Services data and supercomputing platform where users can share knowledge and expertise.
For some small towns, public safety means IT consolidation
Pressures on local governments to cut costs means that maintaining emergency and public safety services depends on consolidating or sharing IT and emergency operations centers.
NIST forms new cloud working groups
The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced three new cloud computing working groups to address standards and frameworks for cloud interoperability and portability.
Los Alamos unleashes HPC for unclassified research
The Wolf computer system modernizes mid-tier resources for Los Alamos scientists.
How talent management tools can improve HR
By automating forms and processes, centralizing data and driving alignment and performance, talent management software is becoming an indispensable tool for public sector agencies.
Software streamlines compliance reporting
Delphix Compliance Engine helps agencies meet changing security and compliance regulations.
Alabama court rules against its tape backup
A U.S. District Court sped the access and retrieval of case and business files by switching out antiquated tape backup for a disk-based system that eliminated long backup and restore routines.
IBM's Watson to supercharge personal medical app
GenieMD, one of three winners of IBM's Watson Mobile Developer Challenge, aims to tap the supercomputer to provide sophisticated analysis and information to health care queries.
As FOIA requests surge, EPA readies e-discovery toolkit
EPA is preparing a set of off-the-shelf tools to help it collect information relevant to litigation, FOIA requests or congressional inquiries.
IBM launches cloud data centers for government
IBM’s Cloud Services data centers provide infrastructure as a service that will enable agencies to deliver 100 different applications and services.
Nevada's DOT taking the paper out of paperwork
By moving to electronic signatures and a cloud-based digital workflow, the Nevada Transportation Department has simplified and speeded up its business processes.
FDA soups up open data with research-friendly openFDA
The Food and Drug Administration has raised the bar on open data with a search-based application program interface for openFDA.
Open data portal aims to be 'Data.gov for state and local agencies'
Accela Inc. launched Civic.Data.com, an open data portal that combines information from government sources and public users, giving researchers one place to query cross-jurisdictional data sets.
Police get free multimedia platform, storage during emergencies
Designed to handle photo and video uploads from citizens, the Large Emergency Event Digital Information Repository helps officials collaboratively manage, organize and analyze crowdsourced media in the cloud.
AppStore gives governments access to municipal apps
The Granicus AppStore that will allow the company's customers to easily find, purchase, deploy and manage apps for government-specific solutions.
The fallacy of 'fog computing'
Cisco’s fog computing is an ill-conceived marketing metaphor that further confuses the cloud market.
In Buffalo, big data drives precision 311 'clean sweeps'
Buffalo uses customer service software to create density maps of citizen 311 complaints and orchestrate 'clean sweeps' of two- and three-block areas.
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