PostgreSQL's materialized views are a great tool to provide low-latency answers to complex queries – but did you know they could offer serializable consistency if you used cutting-edge streaming engines, many millions of dollars, and countless hours of work from talented systems engineers and academics? Oh, and I guess you could then also join them with arbitrarily complex queries over Kafka topics… In this talk, we'll take a look...

We invite you this month to RSVP and join the Azure Government user community as we explore the “Art of the possible: AI in government” Wednesday, March 30 from 6 – 7 p.m. ET during a virtual meetup where we’ll discuss strategies, best practices and the latest tech driving exciting AI for good projects. With increasing mission demands and vast amounts of data, government continues to look at ways to spur innovation and...

As government agencies progress their cloud journey, many are working to move faster to meet demands to improve cybersecurity and take advantage of emerging technologies that will drive further innovation into missions. This month we invite you to RSVP and join the Azure Government user community on Wednesday, Feb. 23 from 6 – 7 p.m. ET, for a virtual meetup, “Zero to 60: Accelerate your speed to cloud,” where we’ll dis...

With more than $6 billion projected investment in related research and development projects in 2021, according to National Defense Magazine, AI-focused initiatives will multiply as they become more essential to agency missions.And, while AI brings a wide range of capabilities for government – from predictive maintenance to language translation to expediting disaster response – there are many challenges and considerations around ado...

As many agencies approach the next level of cloud adoption, they’re facing new modernization challenges and demands ranging from governance to IT cost management, data silos to cybersecurity, and cloud integration and more.During this event, which is free and open to the public, we’ll look at the steps organizations can make toward a more effective government cloud including landing zones, charge-back, governance, and compliance. W...

Deploying a new government service or application involves manual work such as procuring and preparing hardware, configuring operating environments, and enabling monitoring solutions. This manual work takes time, is error-prone, and can produce inconsistencies.Key DevOps practices such Infrastructure as Code (IaC), continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) and automated testing, allow you and your team to develop and release changes...

Citizens increasingly expect higher performance and quality of government services and applications – putting developers on the hook to deliver new, secure capabilities to their agencies faster than ever. To keep pace, agencies can implement DevSecOps– a methodology that leverages agile principles, automation and integrates security from the start. To hear how to realize DevSecOps in government, we invite you to RSVP and join the M...

More and more government agencies are reaching the tipping point with cloud; going beyond lift-and-shift as the full potential of cloud is becoming crystal clear. Without a doubt, 2020 will bring even greater focus on ways agencies can take advantage of cloud capabilities to enable their mission. During this free event, which is open to the public, government and industry speakers will share insights such as: Cloud fundamentals: What you need...

The next wave of computing is taking shape around us – from smart devices and sensors that can speak, listen and action; to compute-enabled in remote parts of the globe – without requiring always-on connectivity to the cloud to make real-time, insightful decisions. This is the intelligent edge, and it’s defining the next wave of innovation and how organizations will address some of the world’s most pressing problems.To...

The Annual ICIT Gala and Benefit is an intimate, invitation-only gathering of legislative, agency and private sector leaders committed to protecting our Nation’s critical infrastructures. This black-tie event will celebrate the accomplishments of the most influential members of our community as well as the efforts of today’s most impactful cybersecurity leaders. The funds raised from this Benefit will be used to help sustain and gr...