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When I woke up this morning, it was all over the news: “Big corporation gets breached in cyberattack.” Unfortunately, every few months I see a similar headline. What lessons can we learn from these recurring attacks that can help us do a better job in creating defenses — and make it a lot harder for the bad guys to succeed?
Backup professionals used to prepare for physical disasters, while security professionals planned for different types of disasters. In the age of ransomware, the lines between these disciplines are disappearing, yet too many security and backup teams are still not in synch.
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At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million Internet properties, for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
The role of the Advanced Technology Account Executive is to drive product gross profit (GP), service revenue, and Data Center revenue across a balanced portfolio in Advanced Technology Solutions. Develop an understanding and capability to sell CDW Advanced Technology Solutions in key areas including Networking (UC, Wireless, and Contact Center), Advanced Server and Storage Solutions (Virtualization, Optimization), Microsoft, Security, Data Center and Services offerings. Sell the CDW Advanced Technology services engagement methodology will be key to success in selling Advanced Technology Solutions and will lead to success in driving Hardware GP. The ATS Account Executive will coordinate and lead the efforts to develop requirements and deliver customer Statements of Work around all service engagements.
Generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs), such as those available soon via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Titan are transforming the way developers and enterprises are able to solve traditionally complex challenges related to natural language processing and understanding. Some of the benefits offered by LLMs include the ability to create more capable and compelling conversational AI experiences for customer service applications, and improving employee productivity through more intuitive and accurate responses.
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This post was co-written by Nazhin Beiramee, Jazmin Childress, Kevin Clark, and Nick Weiss.
Greater situational awareness can help transform emergency response. Experts estimate that as many as 10,000 lives could be saved every year by reducing 911 response times by just one minute. Information that improves situational awareness is seen as a foundation of emergency response strategy because, as FEMA notes, "accurate, timely information will enable more informed, effective decision-making."
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Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration platform that enables developers to deploy modern applications at scale. However, deploying applications on Kubernetes can be complex and time-consuming, and it often requires specialized expertise and knowledge.
Government financial processes are in need of an upgrade now, more than ever before. With a perfect storm of challenges, such as reporting and audit requirements, cybersecurity threats, and legacy knowledge leaving with retiring employees, the time is now for many local governments to rethink their financial processes.
DDoS attacks aren't new, but they are on the rise in the Public Sector. Now more than ever, the Internet is mission-critical to providing citizen services. Hackers are more easily able to choose between making citizen services completely inaccessible or just degrading services enough to noticeably impact the customer experience.
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What to Know:
  • The city-operated AI Factory processes real-time data from cameras, sensors and connected systems to enhance public safety, traffic control and emergency response, according to CIO Jorge Cardenas.
  • The platform is powered by the city’s own fiber network and private 5G infrastructure, allowing for secure, high-speed data processing without relying on third-party cloud providers.
  • Brownsville plans to offer compute capacity to neighboring cities that lack similar capabilities.
What to Know:
  • Texas’ 2026–27 state budget includes more than $1 billion in IT capital funding for modernization across key agencies.
  • Major initiatives include system overhauls at HHSC, TxDMV and DFPS, and creation of the new Texas Cyber Command.
  • Agencies are expanding use of AI, automation and data integration, with new vendor opportunities expected in late 2025 and into 2026.
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  • The state of Texas spent about $6.3 billion on IT-related goods and services in Fiscal Year 2025.
  • The Health and Human Services Commission and Department of Transportation were the top-spending agencies.
  • Deloitte, Rackspace and the Texas Facilities Commission were among the highest-paid vendors.
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