How to improve incident command communications

Nokia is the latest business to be sucked into the voracious maw of the public clouds. In a deal announced this afternoon, the Finnish equipment vendor was revealed to have handed responsibility for its IT systems to Google. That will mean jettisoning its data centers and servers – and, presumably, the staff who manage them […]

While most emergency responders cannot work fully remote due to the nature of their job, they can access the same benefits of unified collaboration tools to quickly connect with stations and seamlessly communicate with other first responders. Implementing this technology not only slows the spread of COVID-19 and decreases the amount of time required to […]

AT&T this week announced that the U.S. Army has selected FirstNet—the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) being built by AT&T—to provide communications to public-safety personnel at 72 Army installations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico in a 3-year deal valued at $13 million. Jill Singer, vice president of defense and national security for AT&T’s Public […]

As connected devices proliferate, new ways of processing have come to the fore to accommodate device and data explosion. For years, organizations have moved toward centralized, off-site processing architecture in the cloud and away from on-premises data centers. Cloud computing enabled startups to innovate and expand their businesses without requiring huge capital outlays on data […]