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Innovation requires many ingredients: a great idea, creativity, persistence, the right data, and technology. Governments around the world are taking advantage of the cloud to reduce cost and transform the way they deliver on their mission. The expectations of an increasingly digital citizenry are high, yet all levels of government face budgetary and human resource […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers scalable, cost-efficient cloud services that public sector customers can use to meet mandates, reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and accelerate innovation. The procurement of an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud is unlike traditional technology purchasing. Traditional public sector procurement and contracting approaches that are designed to purchase products, such as […]

Government agencies often look to promote new technology for cost-savings and efficiency, but it does not stop there. The second and third-tier effects of technology can be long lasting for citizens, businesses, and economies. When public institutions adopt the cloud, they experience an internal transformation. Inside an organization, cloud usage drives greater accessibility of data […]

City leaders around the world are working to improve the quality of life and increase the number of useful services for their citizens, businesses, and visitors. Smart city initiatives are gaining attention in several countries, as administrators, industry, and citizens are working together to enhance their communities, cities, regions, and nations. After more than ten […]

Data, and the technology used to collect it and turn it into insights, are a means to an end: to better serve residents. Cloud technology allows city leaders to focus on serving residents by offering a reliable and secure infrastructure to administer services. The cloud ensures data privacy and allows leaders to focus their time […]

Implementing Detective Controls to Cover All Your Bases Organizations also need detective controls to review and monitor user access and activity for anomalies that need investigation. In other words, it’s not enough to simply define access controls and forget about them. Too many factors in the environment are constantly changing (users, applications, directories, etc.), and […]

Data is undoubtedly the focal point of unstructured data management, but in order to manage unstructured data effectively, identity governance expertise and processes are required. Specifically, the IAM group plays a central role to ensure that:  All high-risk, sensitive unstructured data has an appropriate access control model in place.  Access to sensitive data is granted […]

Velostrata is a purpose-built, enterprise-grade cloud migration solution that lets you mass migrate enterprise workloads to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) from on- prem or other clouds quickly while controlling and automating where storage resides. Our patented technology decouples compute (VMs) from storage (VMDKs) and provides intelligent streaming, optimization, multi-tier caching, and data pre-fetching capabilities to ensure […]

According to the 2018 International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Spending Guide, the market is expected to gain five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.9% with public cloud services spending totaling $277 billion in 2021. If that’s the likely forecast growth in five years, what will happen in a decade? The […]

Your guide to a successful and cost-effective cloud migration. Google Cloud’s migration solutions are purpose built and enterprise grade. They deliver to enterprises a cloud migration journey that both accelerates and de-risks their migration, enabling customers to honor stringent application SLAs regardless of application complexity, statefulness requirements, or size of datasets. Rapid migration: Minimizing disruption […]