The city of Los Angeles has Olympic-level ambitions for its development as a smart city over the next year seven years. The city, which is set to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, recently released a smart city blueprint that outlines how it plans to evolve and become a more connected and equitable city in time for the games. The plan was shared with members of the Los Angeles City Council in June.

Poly Studio Enhances Hybrid Meeting Experiences. The Poly Studio X50 lets you share content over wired or wireless connections using dual monitors, and the solution also does an excellent job of simplifying and enhancing the hybrid meeting experience in medium-sized rooms, which I tested by taking meetings for two months with the unit.. The result of those two months of tests was a seamless ...

In a modern work environment, state and local government agencies regularly find their employees collaborating remotely. Many agencies have adapted to this reality by orchestrating security solutions suitable for a distributed workforce.. To analyze and augment the cybersecurity posture of the modern distributed organization, Gartner coined a …

Jim Weaver joined the N.C. Department of Information Technology in March 2021 as secretary and CIO. NCDIT oversees IT services for the state of North Carolina and is the primary IT service provider for state government agencies.

The phrase “cloud-native apps” gets thrown around a lot. But 9 times out of 10, what we’re really talking about is Software as a Service, especially among state and local government agencies that don’t necessarily have the in-house staff to develop, …

What Are the Pros and Cons of Colocation for State and Local Agencies? Colo can enable agencies to reduce the staff and pare back the resources that presently go toward running an on-premises data center.And colo offers ready access to a level of data-center expertise.

In closing the programming for the annual conference of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers recently, state CIOs emphasized the importance of enterprise architecture in achieving their goals in burgeoning IT focus areas.. Speaking to challenges outlined in “The 2024 State CIO Survey: Building Blocks of the Next Generation CIO,” state CIOs linked generative ...

The world can be dangerous and unpredictable. For state and local governments, the difference between weathering a crisis or succumbing to a cascading disaster lies in continuity of operations plans.. COOPs are decidedly not sexy.

In February 2020, Tennessee opened the doors to its MyTN application, providing its residents with integrated access to an initial eight state services through an integrated, one-stop portal.. Today, the application offers access to an estimated 78 services, and it has registered about 300,000 users to date, said Jerry Imsand, executive director of …

In most emergency scenarios, state IT leaders would turn to both traditional data centers and modular data centers, Chhabra says. Modular data centers in remote areas can link to traditional data centers using a satellite connection, Chhabra adds.