IoT in connected Government helps to deliver better citizen services and
provides transparency. It helps in delivering contextual and personalized
service to citizens, enhances the security, and improves the quality of life.
The reference architecture provides guidance for the development of
government systems, solutions and application architecture. A reference
architecture provides a common framework and allows the design to follow the
consistent definitions for the system of interest, its decompositions and
design patterns.
The vision of any Connected Government in the digital era is "To develop
connected and intelligent IoT based systems to contribute to government's
economy, improving citizen satisfaction, safe society, environment
sustainability, city management and global need."
In Connected Government, IoT-based applications provides many benefits, which
i... (more)
Is there more than bitcoin to blockchain?
Absolutely, because today's blockchain is opening up a pathtowards the
delivery of trusted online services.
To understand this statement, you need to see blockchain as more that it's
more famous bitcoin use case. As a fundamental digital tool, blockchain is a
shared, immutable ledger for recording the history of transactions. If used
in this fashion, it can enable transactional applications that can have
embedded trust, accountability and transparency attributes. Instead of having
a Bitcoin blockchain that is reliant on the exchange of cryptocurrencies with
anonymous users on a public network, a Business blockchain can provide a
permissioned network with known and verified identities. With this kind of
transactional visibility, all activities within that network are observable
and auditable by every network user. This end-to... (more)
Did you know that the reservations systems of the biggest carriers mostly run
on a specialized IBM operating system known as Transaction Processing
Facility (TPF). Designed by IBM in the 1960s it was designed to process a
large numbers of transactions quickly. Although IBM is still updating the
code, the last major rewrite was about ten years ago. With all the major
technologies changes since then, it's clear that IBM has already accomplished
a herculean task by keeping an application viable for over 50 years.
Just like Americas aging physical infrastructure, the airlines are suffering
from years of minimal investment in their information technology. This
critical failure has been highlighted by a number of newsworthy incidents
including:
Delta, April 4, 2017 - Following storms that affected its Atlanta hub,
Delta's crew-scheduling systems failed, causing days of op... (more)
Runaway cloud computing cost may be causing an information technology
industry crisis. Expanding requirements, extended transition schedules and
misleading marketplace hype have made "Transformation" a dirty word.
Questions about how to manage cost variances and deviations with assets and
cost across different suppliers abound. A recent Cloud Tech article
explained that while public cloud offers considerable cost savings in
comparison to private or on-premises based alternatives, there may also be
significant hidden costs. Operational features like auto-scaling can cause
costs to soar in line with demand for resources, making predicting costs
difficult and budgeting even harder. There is also an acute need for a
holistic and heterogeneous system that can track the costs of cloud services
from the point of consumption (e.g., an application or business unit) down to... (more)
Cloud computing is more than servers and storage. In a crisis situation it
can actually be a lifesaver. BlackBerry, in fact, has just become the first
cloud-based crisis communication service to receive a Federal Risk and
Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization from the United
States Government for its AtHoc Alert and AtHoc Connect services. If you're
not familiar with FedRAMP, it is a US government-wide program that provides a
standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous
monitoring for cloud products and services. The Blackberry certification was
sponsored by the US Federal Aviation Administration.
While you may not need a US Government certified solution in an emergency,
your organization may really want to consider the benefits of cloud computing
for crisis response. From a communications point of view, companies can... (more)
When executing an effective digital transformation strategy, management is
tasked with placing the right workload into the most appropriate IT
environment. This represents a shift from buying parts for self-assembly to
composing services through self-serve consumption and pay-per-use models.
Quite often this transition also leads to the adoption of software defined
environments across the enterprise infrastructure.
Software defined infrastructures do, however, bring with them some very
unique challenges. Many of the most prevalent issues are centered around the
relatively immature state of the technology itself. The most significant
aspect of this challenge is the lack of industry standards for device
control. Control software must know the status of all network devices and
trunks, no matter what vendor equipment is being used. While OpenFlow stands
today as the d... (more)
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an uninterrupted connected network of
embedded objects/ devices with identifiers without any human intervention
using standard and communication protocol. It provides encryption,
authorization and identification with different device protocols like MQTT,
STOMP or AMQP to securely move data from one network to another. IoT in
connected Government helps to deliver better citizen services and provides
transparency. It improves the employee productivity and cost savings. It
helps in delivering contextual and personalized service to citizens and
enhances the security and improves the quality of life. With secure and
accessible information government business makes more efficient, data driven,
changing the lives of citizens for the better. IoT focused Connected
Government solution helps in rapidly developing preventive and predictive
ana... (more)
Chat apps characteristics make them very appealing to businesses and
marketers. Prominent ones include their size, user retention, usage rates,
and user demographics. In fact, the combined user base of the top four chat
apps is larger than that of the top four social networks. Chat apps also have
higher retention and usage rates than most mobile apps. Finally, the majority
of their users are young, an extremely important demographic for brands,
advertisers and publishers.
These chat app traits have accelerated the blending of artificial
intelligence and business service functions to create the modern chatbot.
Recent advances in this area include:
A chatbot's ability to conduct engaging human conversations which has allowed
businesses to leverage the inexpensive and wide-reaching technology to engage
with more consumers; The greater suitability of chatbots with mobil... (more)
NATO ACT 'Art of the Possible' Interoperability Demonstration
GovCloud Network is proud to have served as the Program Manager for the NATO
Allied Command Transformation, "Art of the Possible" Interoperability
Demonstration on December 16, 2016. supporting the The Network Centric
Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), this effort featured an important
demonstration for military, government and business leaders by its
member-companies to underscore the benefits of collaborating via an
interoperable network environment. The demonstration used a secure,
federated-cloud infrastructure to highlight the consortium's work over the
past few years in how to develop a trusted environment, including governance
processes and federation management as well as interoperability verification.
This demonstration itself is an outgrowth of the NCOIC Interoperability
Verification (IV)... (more)
(Originally posted on the Engility Corporation Blog)
There's a lot to gain from cloud computing, but success requires a thoughtful
and enterprise focused approach. Cloud computing decouples data and
information from the infrastructure on which it lies. A process that is a LOT
more involved than dragging some folders from your desktop to a shared drive.
Cloud computing as a mission transformation activity, not a technological
one.
As an organization moves from local information hosting to the cloud, one of
the most important challenges is addressing cloud computing as a mission
transformation activity, not a technological one. Cloud computing isn't a new
technology. It's a new way of consuming and provisioning information
technology services. Adopting cloud computing means paralleling your mission
processes, rethinking the economic models and abstracting your applicati... (more)
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The computer and the network that connects them are both inextricably linked
to the success of any business. This truth is at the heart of our
contemporary connection economy.
"The computer patiently measures and reports. [T]he network creates value in
connection. The connection economy values the bridges between the nodes as
much as the nodes themselves." - Seth Godin
This train of thought explains why Uber is worth more than the independent
cars it connects. It also describes the imperative for enterprises to
redefine their network in order to operate in the modern data economy. The
instantiation of today's data economy lies in the digital supply chain that
links customer demand and organizational products. This reality surfaces the
need for organizations to transform their supply chains into demand and
product networks. This strate... (more)
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