In the information-technology world, there are plenty of projects with daily, weekly or even monthly deadlines. There are not many where the end product must be designed and executed once every 10 years. Yet, that is exactly what is required for the U.S. to count its residents as defined by the Constitution, a process known ...

Over 6,500 government agencies now use cloud solutions provided by Amazon Web Services Inc., and one of the users of AWS GovCloud is the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The law enforcement agency had been saddled with an aging information-technology infrastructure, and the FBI’s computer operations leadership became accustomed to hearing complaints from employees about system performance. ...

When it became apparent that U.S. firms would need financial help during the pandemic, Congress approved $349 billion in emergency small-business funding for loans under the Paycheck Protection Program. It fell to the Small Business Association to administer those loans, and the agency quickly turned to Amazon Web Services Inc. and third-party reseller Four Points ...

Please sign-in to your video chat-enabled, cloud-based virtual platform. The Municipal Court of the City of Alvin, Texas, is now in session. While this might sound like a scenario from a work of science fiction, it is actually happening for defendants with business before a judge in Alvin, as well as in 60 courts throughout ...

Learn by doing. That’s the underlying philosophy behind a rapid use-case prototyping training model designed by NorthBay Solutions LLC, an Amazon Web Services Public Sector partner. NorthBay’s AWS-trained staff works side-by-side in virtual simultaneous rooms to help information technology customers quickly come up to speed on cloud-based areas, such as database migration, application modernization, machine learning ...

When COVID-19 began shutting down schools across the country earlier this year, the University of Maryland Baltimore County had a big problem on its hands. There were many of its 14,000 students who could no longer attend learning sessions in on-campus physical labs. The school turned to eLumin LLC, a provider of cloud-based technology solutions ...

Themes of innovation and customer obsession were especially relevant when Amazon Web Services Inc. announced its 2020 AWS Public Sector Partners Awards. The global pandemic lent particular importance to many of the innovative solutions that were recently recognized by AWS on behalf of public sector customers. “During COVID, data became so essential,” said Sandy Carter (pictured), vice ...

The tech world moves fast, but when it comes to female representation at senior levels, it doesn’t move fast enough. Representation of female board members among companies with $100 billion or more in market capitalization is currently 23%. That drops to 9% for private companies or firms up to $500 million in market cap, and ...

A company’s assets, liabilities and shareholder value are reported on the balance sheet. What about the value of its data? As data volume grows along with its importance to enterprises, a case could be made that it should be treated as an asset and its value reported accordingly. Nothing could be more wrong, according to ...

One company that supports query and analysis of fast-moving enterprise data is growing fast as well. After expanding its business 200% in 2018, MemSQL Inc. grew an additional 75% in 2019 and just raised $50 million in debt facility to capitalize its operations for the next several years. MemSQL’s relational real-time database analyzes data across ...