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How to modernize your agency network for resilience and growth
We are taking a closer look at the impact of Kubernetes on business and operational success. The majority of respondents report seeing both operational benefits 98 percent and business benefits 97 percent. Developer productivity 60 percent and IT efficiency 64 percent were widely cited as business benefits.
Water and sanitation public utilities are one of the most visible ways that citizens interact with local government. Poor service delivery, unanswered phone calls and indecipherable bills can frustrate customers and damage the reputation of these important government service providers. Explore how cloud infrastructure can help agencies deliver exceptional service to their constituents.
Guidance for modernizing systems and networking technology to meet citizen needs
As the world continues to face unprecedented challenges, constituents look to their governments for help.
How to evaluate and implement new connectivity capabilities
Everything's bigger in Texas- including the Cartegraph National Conference! Get ready for an info packed week that will energize you to think bigger and take on infrastructure and operations management in a whole new way. We're talking five days chock-full of one-on-one software training, customer-led sessions, inspiring keynotes, and peer networking.
Alation has secured a Standard Licensing Program (SLP) in California and a Department of Information Resources (DIR) in Texas. What does this mean for public leaders in these regions?
Learn why a modern network is critical to your mission’s success
VMware's Flagship Public Sector Event in Austin on April 5th at The Bullock Museum
Improve efficiency, reduce costs and meet cybersecurity requirements in the cloud era
Today’s organizations enlist complex processes to enable customer service and satisfaction. But those processes can break down at scale without proper capacity and observability of application and business analytics data.
Modern enterprise should never be constrained by the limits of an aging network infrastructure. The successful modern enterprise ensures that the entire operation is equipped with the bandwidth it needs, delivered securely to the furthest reaches of its extremities. Speeds of 100Gbps, with redundancy options, are the base upon which the modern enterprise should build when sharing data, applications and processes. Time is money might be an adage your grandmother taught you, but it’s never been truer than in today’s business world where multi-million dollar deals may hinge on the efficacy of low-latency communications and applications.
IBM Security released its annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index finding that although ransomware's share of incidents declined only slightly (4 percentage points) from 2021 to 2022, defenders were more successful detecting and preventing ransomware. Despite this, attackers continued to innovate with the report showing the average time to complete a ransomware attack dropped from 2 months down to less than 4 days.
Here are four significant observability trends we’ll see shaping IT leaders’ agendas in 2023.
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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.
What to Know:
- 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.
