Critical infrastructure services in North America face accelerating threats from both nation-states and other sophisticated threat actors. Governments globally are grappling with how to best balance incentives, support, and direct oversight. Meanwhile, critical infrastructure owners and operators face significant challenges with technology, staff resources, and expertise to better manage cyber resilience. For instance, the healthcare industry...

As agencies increasingly migrate their workloads to the cloud, it is crucial to understand the implications and benefits of writing natively to the cloud, which enables organizations to optimize their data protection strategies, streamline operations, and enhance overall security. “Writing natively” is about building, deploying and managing software apps in the cloud computing environment. Taking this approach makes it possible to...

After the events of the past few years, security is in the forefront of election officials’ minds. The individual states are responsible for conducting elections, so the National Association of Counties (NACo) at its annual legislative conference just conducted a series of workshops and panels on the range of threats facing election workers and voters alike. While physical threats, intimidation and harassment are primary concerns, there...

Educational institutions and state and local agencies historically have been challenged to keep up with technological advancements – their budgets are tight, their users are increasingly distributed post-pandemic, and they face significant operating expenses from maintaining legacy architectures and equipment. Digital transformation is appealing, but for many organizations the challenge is where to start. As the generation of data has ex...

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...

When it comes to providing services for both employees and constituents, many agencies are working in the dark: They just don’t have any concrete idea of how those services are resonating with the intended users. Needless to say, that is not a good long-term strategy. That’s where data can help. Join us online Tuesday, Dec. 12 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT to hear from experts at General Services Administration, Dept. of Veterans Affairs...

What’s the future of the internet? Will it survive the next marketing-generated hype cycle? Why is there an ethical dilemma linking the internet and the stock market? Is anyone really thinking about these issues? Postgres World, in conjunction with Command Prompt Inc’s More than a Refresh podcast, is thrilled to present an hour long discussion with Cooper Quintin, Senior Staff Technologist at The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF...

pgLogical was a step forward in logical replication for PostgreSQL database users. Recently released, pgEdge, with its Spock extension, has overcome many of the limitations pgLogical users have faced with distributed applications such as fault tolerance, data consistency, conflict resolution, and performance. This webinar will provide an overview and demonstration of pgEdge’s game-changing advanced asynchronous replication capabilities t...

Discover how government IT leaders are automating edge deployments to reduce the need for specialized IT expertise in the field while accelerating their time to value for insights from real-time data collection, processing, and analysis from a wide array of sources. IDC forecasts that 50% of the data will be generated at the edge by 2026. Gartner concurs, stating that by 2025, more than 40% of enterprise storage will be deployed at the edge, w...

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