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Virtualization, Consolidation Help Agencies Cut Back on Physical Data Centers

FedTech Magazine

Turn back the clock a decade or so, and you would see a far different data center landscape in the federal space than exists today. For one, there would be more data centers —many more, in fact —and they would be largely running applications on bare-metal servers. Those efforts have been so successful that data center closures…

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Use FinOps to Track and Forecast Cloud Costs

FedTech Magazine

Federal IT managers who move applications to cloud data centers gain a host of benefits, including cost savings — on real estate, utilities, equipment and more. IT managers may have to repatriate applications to their on-premises data centers if they can’t deliver the promised cost savings. Enter FinOps.…

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FBI’s AI efforts face funding and workforce barriers, OIG finds

FedScoop

The Justice Department has not utilized federal hiring authorities to establish alternate pay scales for highly technical work like some other agencies have done for cyber and STEM jobs. The funding issues the FBI faces manifest themselves in two primary areas: procurement, and data architecture and IT infrastructure.

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ICE says it’s stopped using commercial telemetry data

FedScoop

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped using commercial telemetry data, which can include phone data that reveals a person’s location, an agency spokesperson confirmed to FedScoop. The move comes amid ongoing bipartisan concern about law enforcement agency purchases of peoples’ location data without obtaining a warrant.

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Improving public health through data exchange

AWS Public Sector

As public health resources shift away from the pandemic response, jurisdictions now seek ways to modernize their public health infrastructure to avoid previous challenges such as data fragmentation, incompleteness of health data, and lack of interoperability.

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House bill calls on EPA to update IT systems that store air quality data

FedScoop

The Environmental Protection Agency would be required to update the legacy IT platform it uses to store air quality data systems under new legislation in the House. I requested the GAO report on this issue because the federal government is only as good as the IT it utilizes,” Connolly said in a press release. Gerry Connolly, D-Va.,

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Applying AI in Healthcare: Netsmart AI Data Lab

AWS Public Sector

That’s why Netsmart, an industry leader in electronic health records (EHRs) for human services and post-acute care, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) joined forces to advance artificial intelligence (AI) for community-based care providers, through the development of an AI Data Lab.

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