Struggling Small Businesses Are Also at Risk from Postal Service Delays
COMMENTARY | A reliable U.S. Postal Service is critical for small- and medium-sized businesses, which depend on both its wide reach and affordable rates.
What Happens Next With Affordable Housing?
COMMENTARY | States and local governments already haven’t been investing enough to help build housing that poor families, and sometimes even middle-class people, can afford. And now funding could be yet another victim of the coronavirus.
The new complexities of cloud access control
NIST's new guidance is a valuable first step.
3 key advantages of on-premises object storage over public cloud
Despite what many organizations have assumed, the public cloud is not the best option for all workloads and use cases.
Pentagon moves to revamp online education systems
As the pandemic increases the need for online learning, the Defense Department's chief management officer pushes change.
California Braces for More Rolling Blackouts Amid Heat Wave
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CBP plans cloud management contract
The cloud governance contract will help the agency get a better handle on proliferating bills and hard-to-track costs for cloud services, as well as a more efficient way to use its stable of commercial cloud service providers.
The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
The U.S. has never had enough coronavirus tests. Now a group of epidemiologists, economists, and dreamers is plotting a new strategy to defeat the virus, even before a vaccine is found.
AWS launches cloud-based quantum computing
Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon Braket, a service that taps AWS cloud resources to run quantum computing algorithms on simulated quantum computers, reducing the need for developers to set up and manage their own infrastructure.
How to Use Ventilation and Air Filtration to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus Indoors
COMMENTARY | When it comes to making indoor spaces safer, it is either a matter of bringing in more outside air or removing the virus from air inside a building.
Cloud streamlines CARES Act grants management
With grants management taking on more importance in the pandemic, state and local governments are turning to cloud-based systems to streamline processing and reporting.
How technology can help local police improve efficiencies and better serve citizens
Tools like automated license plate recognition software and vehicle recognition systems can be used to create a contactless and efficient form of policing that can help departments manage their budgetary realities while keeping their officers and communities safe for everyone.
Automating breathalyzer tests to reduce in-person contact
As people social distance to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, police are finding tools to help them enforce the law and practice social distancing.
Reaching into virtual machines for forensic data
The Cloud Hypervisor-forensics and Incident Response Platform gives analysts a way to extract data from cloud infrastructure at the hypervisor level.
DOD wants another month for JEDI review
The Pentagon is looking for a 30-day extension so it can continue its partial re-examination of award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract to Microsoft.
Why local governments should secure CARES Act funding (and how they can)
Software-defined, virtualized and decentralized infrastructure gives governments the flexibility, scalability and operational efficiency required to address residents’ needs in real-time, from anywhere.
DOD clears mid-band spectrum for commercial 5G
The Defense Department has made another 100 megahertz of mid-band spectrum bandwidth available for commercial 5G use.
NSA expanding telework for unclassified work
As the National Security Agency works to broaden its cloud-based telework capabilities, it is expanding capabilities within Microsoft Office 365 to support unclassified activities.
High-performance computing from anywhere
GPU-accelerated virtual workstations allow scientists to continue working with massive datasets from almost anywhere.
Managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments with enterprise IT as a service
As agencies adopt multi- and hybrid-cloud environments, they should consider an as-a-service model with zero trust network access as their foundation for secure access.
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