After migrating to the cloud, the Seattle Police Department was able to enhance operations and make improvements to emergency response and criminal investigations. Like many departments, the Seattle Police Department had multiple disparate data sources. Cloud computing equips institutions with agility and scalability, providing the ability to store and analyze data, powering innovation. Join leadership from the Seattle Police Department and pu...

Cloud solutions can bring tremendous benefits to state and local agencies, but it’s important to understand the true costs of cloud before initiating any core systems migrations. Many agencies are surprised to find that cloud doesn’t necessarily represent a cost savings. In many cases, cloud technologies can cost just as much or more than on-premises solutions, at least initially. In this conversation from the Center for Digital Go...

State and local governments are tasked with securely connecting one or multiple of five things to support mission-critical needs: People, locations, data, clouds and applications. With a renewed focus on government cybersecurity, agencies face increased pressure to keep those connections secure. There’s growing attention to the physical security of government data centers and an increase in the adoption of cloud strategies that explore v...

Agencies implementing a cloud-smart strategy understand the many benefits of multicloud adoption, which can include operational efficiencies, cost reductions, improved security and more. However, multicloud adoption is just one part of the solution and can introduce new operational challenges when implemented without a comprehensive strategy. To realize the benefits of multicloud, disparate infrastructure, applications and data must be federat...

Governments are turning to hybrid cloud to meet some of today’s most pressing challenges, and it’s working. Agencies nationwide have made major improvements to mission-critical operations like public service delivery and emergency response as a result of hybrid cloud adoption. But to ensure continued success, governments need hybrid cloud strategies that address cloud costs. As agencies embrace the efficiencies that come with cloud...

The road to an efficient and effective cloud system has never been an easy one — and now that road often passes through multiple providers as more agencies adopt a multicloud strategy. While leaders continue to turn to the cloud, technologists are falling behind when it comes to learning new cloud technologies. The gap between what leaders want and what technologists can execute creates foundational obstacles to multicloud success. Learn...

Cloud-based solutions can help government agencies accelerate digital transformation. By migrating workloads to the cloud, agencies can improve their processes from end-to-end while offering solutions that enhance data security, mitigate risk and provide next-generation speed and flexibility. The common thread in all these improvements is artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) which allows non-technical staff to use prebuilt t...

With government and education organizations tasked with transforming their IT infrastructure quickly and securely, many are leveraging multiple cloud computing platforms. For most agencies, this means they must replace legacy systems with systems suitable for managing multiple cloud application workloads. A cloud management solution can help agencies to overcome multi-cloud complexity. IT teams can get a holistic overview of every system on a...

Leveraging multicloud computing has many well-known benefits for state and local governments – it can increase efficiency, improve cybersecurity and reduce costs. But migrating to a multicloud environment can be complex. How can agencies make the journey to the cloud seamless and straightforward? Cloud migration solutions can address the challenges of moving to a multicloud environment. These tools can help organizations quickly migrate...

State and local governments have access to a wealth of data, yet many agencies are still starved for valuable insights. Gaining insights from data can be a lengthy process – it requires a thorough understanding of and speedy access to data, the ability to analyze data and a method to present findings for further consumption. This process has been coined as ‘time to insight.’ As more agencies seek to leverage data, many are a...