State governments manage enormous volumes of sensitive information every day, from tax records and health data to the systems that keep essential public services running. When this information is ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Connecticut CISO Gene Meltser cut through the tooling hype: The state’s biggest enemy is fragmentation — too many products, too little scale and not enough measurable risk reduction. His fix is a ...

The artificial intelligence boom represents more than a tech trend. It’s a national resilience issue. As agencies race to harness AI capabilities, the underlying infrastructure is accelerating faster ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. A cyber event in Texas helped drive home the need for a security ...

Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. The DIR’s Data Center Services program, ...

As state and local agencies accelerate cloud adoption, security and compliance issues increasingly stem not from missing controls but from configuration drift — the gradual divergence of cloud ...

I’ve had a version of the same conversation with state and local government IT leaders dozens of times. They’re trying to modernize data centers, cut costs and make sense of an infrastructure ...