Government Policy, Business and Technology

Nutanix’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Private Cloud Enables Federal Agencies to Streamline Operations and Improve Management of Large Data Sets

Just two years ago, the Federal government caught the attention of the government IT provider and user communities with a “Cloud First” mandate. If the response to this Federal initiative has been variable, it’s been only by degree, because there is clearly a strong...

Lawmakers Set the Stage for the Privacy Debate

NextGov: Republican lawmakers are taking their first stab at drafting privacy regulations, or at least pushing enforcement agencies to build a framework for them to follow.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on Wednesday introduced legislation that would give the Federal Trade Commission six months to...

Nutanix’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure Enables Government Entities to Provide Positive Outcomes to Citizens

Delivering services that support quality of life is the central task of local and regional governments entities, with a traditional focus on providing public safety, education, and social services such as healthcare. As citizens become increasingly aware of the capabilities of modern IT networks, they...

Request for Unemployment Aid to Help Federal Workers Was Denied, D.C. Mayor Says

Governing: The Department of Labor on Thursday denied a request from Washington's mayor to make more federal employees who are working without pay eligible to collect unemployment benefits, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday.

The Labor Department's response to Bowser's request Monday...

Cloud-Driven Databases Improve Service Quality, Reduce Costs

Most agencies have migrated at least a few applications to cloud services, but progress has been slow, due primarily to internal IT complexities, cybersecurity worries and a reluctance to abandon physical resources. Increasingly, however, agency leaders find that optimizing data management provides a critical first...

New House Armed Services committee sees an influx of veterans, women

Military Times: This year’s House Armed Services Committee will feature more veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan than ever before, and also boasts its largest contingent of female veterans crafting defense policy.

Democrats are adding 16 new members to the influential...

Overcoming Aging Infrastructure

Explore the use of IoT sensors to monitor vibrations and better track the safety of bridges and other structures. Using real-time, cloud-based, advanced analytics and IoT sensor data, government executives can measure vibrations that would help federal, state and local organizations more closely monitor aging...

Senate health committee leaders introduce key funding bill

Modern Healthcare: This year's healthcare package started taking shape Friday as the leaders of the Senate health committee introduced a bill that includes five years of funding for community health centers. The Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing on the legislation on Jan. 29.

Federal judge links PG&E's uninsulated power lines to California wildfires

Utility Dive: While Alsup is overseeing the San Bruno pipeline case in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, he has also been making inquiries into the state's wildfires and the utility's possible role, potentially exposing the utility to even greater scrutiny.

Fed Up, L.A. Principals Ask District to Close Schools During Teacher Strike

Education Week: While Los Angeles teachers have been on strike, principals and other administrators have been handling instruction. And the situation, some say, is untenable.

On Thursday, Juan Flecha, the president of the Associated...