Cloud

Chief Information Officer Christine Sakuda explains how the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need to update older technologies, but the state workforce will also need new skills to support modern services.

Chief Information Officer Mark Raymond is on a mission to convince decision-makers that technology doesn’t just cost money — it provides value. “It’s how we improve in government at all.”

Data centers are emerging as essential pieces of infrastructure to support the modern, digital, artificial intelligence-driven economy. Electricity, and lots of it, is vital to their growth.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer may have had New York in mind to host a federal research center when he wrote the CHIPS and Science Act, but Oregon is among the states competing to land the facility.

Researchers at the Kentucky university have garnered attention this year for studies about how artificial intelligence could prevent cloud computing attacks, and how LLMs could respond to health care challenges.

Only a few data centers are now operating in the state, but at least six more are being developed. With that in mind, government, utility and data company officials met to discuss what happens next.

The move comes as the e-commerce giant’s Amazon Web Services continues to gain more footing in the public sector. Meanwhile, gov tech accelerator CivStart provides an update of its own work promoting innovation.

The company rebranded and moved to Washington, D.C., last year to be closer to federal customers. But, as its CEO explains, non-federal markets remain important to the firm’s growth.

At an Education Week webinar, panelists from the cloud software provider Softdocs said schools can enhance data security by moving away from on-premise data management and using third-party cybersecurity expertise.

Commissioners in Franklin County, Maine, will commit $100,000 from the county’s undesignated fund to an IT reserve fund. During the next 18 months, plans are to migrate a computer server onto the county’s cloud network.

The new product line could help public agencies and other organizations embrace edge computing and its faster data-transmission speeds. Public-sector spending on edge computing is set for significant growth.

The government technology giant follows a February Amazon Web Services pact with a potentially longer-term state of Maryland contract. It comes as Tyler’s most recent financials show double-digit cloud growth.

CIO Bob Osmond said prioritizing system modernization, financial optimization and infrastructure enhancement is essential to providing the best tech resources to agencies and residents.

Cox Enterprises’ purchase of OpenGov, which valued the company at a landmark $1.8 billion, saw it buy out private equity stakes in the firm. A company executive said it offers “long-term stability” as investments in AI for local government are planned.

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s redesign of its marketplace is focused on smoothing navigation. The update to FedRAMP, first launched in 2011, followed dialog with users on pain points.

2023 saw more cloud-based intrusions and data breach-based extortion. Cyber extortion and ransomware, plus election-related disinformation, are likely to be key concerns in 2024, too.

The 12-year-old company reports big recent sales gains — a reflection of larger trends in the gov tech world. A company executive also expresses skepticism about the role of private equity in the industry.

The two giants have extended their cloud relationship in a new deal. It comes as Tyler Technologies continues to grow and embrace AI, and works to move more public-sector tech programs to the cloud.