Florida is the third-largest state in the U.S. by population, and it continues to grow rapidly – from 2010 to 2020, its population grew by 14.5%. That kind of growth rate might be the envy of other states, but it also means increased pressure on the state government to deliver internet-based, user-friendly services for everything from child support services to renewing business licenses. Bringing digital transformation to the Sunshine St...

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...

A recent study concluded that government agencies are deploying mixed-IT environments - whether on-prem, public cloud, CSPs, MSPs, edge, colocation - at a high rate and that hybrid multicloud is projected to grow almost 5 times over the next three years. Government agencies are rethinking their cloud strategies to meet evolving priorities and mandates and how to address this complexity, especially in the face of IT staffing and skills shortage...

The federal government continues to encourage agencies to move to the cloud. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in June published Cloud Security Technical Reference Architecture v.2 (TRA), which strengthens its guidance to meet cybersecurity standards laid out in Executive Order 14028, "Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity." The TRA includes an introduction to the concept of “cloud security posture manageme...

Government and education IT teams are dealing with an explosion in demand for accessible databases, fueled by the deluge of new unstructured data, structured data, and application development. Whether enterprise apps, mobile, or newer technologies such as wearables and virtual reality devices, the velocity and volume of application growth will continue to expand. In fact, IDC predicts there will be 750 million applications by 2026. Apps and t...

The Top 10 list of enterprise risks facing CIOs in state, local, tribal and territorial agencies is both comprehensive and disturbing, covering everything from cybersecurity to compliance to workforce. High on that list is the technology, including how to manage and work with their cloud portfolios. These public agencies are looking to manage their data in public and private clouds, hybrid clouds or multi-clouds, whether on a daily basis, thro...

State and local governments identify moving to the cloud and incorporating artificial as high on their list of priorities. For instance, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency started using AI and analytics to import weather data in real time and develop a base analysis, which the agency’s meteorologists review and revise. This creates forecasts for weather alerts that can be sent quickly to vulnerable populations, including locations ou...

Federal agencies have embraced cloud strategies as foundational to their transition to digital government, but their approaches come in many different flavors of cloud. As they’ve come to see the benefits, more agencies are adopting a hybrid cloud structure – one or more public and private cloud services that operate as separate but integrated entities. Hybrid cloud provides the cost optimization, agility and scalability of public...

According to the National Association of State CIOs, the top two enterprise risks faced by state governments in 2022 are cybersecurity and technology. Cybersecurity includes everything from data protection and ransomware to identity theft and stolen network credentials. Technology risks include aging or obsolete systems, data management, and handling cloud portfolios, to name a few. Addressing these risks is part of modernizing and transformin...

While government agencies continue their migration to the cloud, concerns about security continue. A recent survey by Fidelis Cybersecurity found that 95% of cybersecurity professionals are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. Their top three concerns: misconfiguration of the cloud platform (71%), exfiltration of sensitive data (59%), and insecure APIs (54%). These are the fears that haunt government IT professionals,...