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Hispanics and Education: a Texas-Sized Challenge for States

Stateline: AUSTIN, Texas – Manuel Ramirez was the first in his family to get a college degree, and it wasn’t easy.

His parents, who brought him to the U.S. illegally from Guanajuato, Mexico, when he was 8 years old, made just enough to get by with day labor and house cleaning.

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Cities Turn to ‘Smart’ Initiatives to Remain Vibrant

State and municipal governments are examining how to leverage low-cost tools, technologies and services to help optimize internal facilities and asset management and keep pace with evolving constituent needs. Smart initiatives typically run on high-performance networks, using sensors, computers and other physical devices. The National...

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A Roadmap for E-Discovery Compliance

Without the right combination of tools and defendable, repeatable, internal processes in place, agencies tend to ‘overcollect’ information for e-discovery, and can end up incurring judicial sanctions, along with ballooning costs. By establishing scalable and agency-wide e-discovery processes, it’s possible to lower costs, and improve regulatory...

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Special Report: Anything as a Service

Government agencies are under pressure to keep costs under tight control while at the same time providing a high level of services to citizens and businesses. It’s a tall order for sure, but not impossible thanks to a host of “anything-as-a-service” offerings enabled by...

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Defense Organizations Strive for Software-Defined Operations

Virtualization mandates have spread as military organizations strive to comply with initiatives such as the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) and ‘Cloud First.’ Now defense and military organizations are migrating to cloud services, which rely on virtualized apps, servers and storage, as a way...