Government Policy, Business and Technology

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...

Data.gov is offline because of the shutdown

FedScoop: Data.gov, the federal government’s central catalog for open data sets, is the latest casualty of the ongoing government shutdown.

Visitors to the site are now met with a simple error message: “Due to a lapse in government funding all data.gov websites...

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...

As Shutdown Stretches On, Will Public Transit Still Run?

Governing: So far, transportation agencies that rely heavily on federal funds have been spared from major consequences from the federal government shutdown. But the longer the impasse in Washington continues, industry officials warn, the harder it will be to keep state and local agencies running normally.

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...

How the US and China collaborated to get nuclear material out of Nigeria — and away from terrorist groups

Defense News: At a staging ground in Ghana, a group of nuclear experts watched the clock and nervously waited for the news.

The team — a mix of American, British, Norwegian and Chinese experts, along with Czech and Russian contractors â€...

A Natural Evolution: From Data Center Consolidation to IT Optimization

As federal IT organizations make progress consolidating and modernizing their IT infrastructures, the impact of legacy platforms, technologies and traditional data centers still weighs heavy, along with each agency’s ability to attract and maintain the skill sets and applications needed to meet 21st century requirements. If...

Supreme Court gears up to review Medicare DSH formula

Modern Healthcare: The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in an appeal over whether HHS can recalculate its Medicare disproportionate-share hospital payments without going through the full rulemaking process to get public input on the change.

PG&E to file for bankruptcy protection as California wildfire costs mount

Utility Dive: PG&E's second bankruptcy protection proceeding in as many decades is imminent. Under California law, companies must give employees at least 15 days notice of a bankruptcy filing, and the utility told the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to expect the filing "on or about Jan. 29....

Why the L.A. Teacher Strike Is Different From Last Year's Protests

Governing: For the first time in nearly three decades, public school teachers in Los Angeles are set to go on strike Monday, continuing the nationwide trend of teacher uprisings that began in West Virginia last spring.

Similar to those protesting in places like Arizona and...