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Eight of California’s 450 public-safety answering points (PSAPs) have migrated at least some emergency calls from legacy 911 technology to a next-generation 911 (NG911) platform, and the number of 911 centers making a similar transition should increase in 2023. Paul Troxel, chief of the 911 program-management division for the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services […]

Wildfires are becoming increasingly intense and common worldwide as the impacts of rising global temperatures are more keenly felt, with nations seeing increased risk to crops, land and homes. Early detection and warning systems are crucial to preventing these disasters, though existing devices typically use satellite or camera imaging for visual smoke detection, a technique […]

Current approaches to managing operations and security made sense at the time they were established, pre-cloud and pre-digital transformation. Now, with networked multicloud environments, both digital operations and security are far more complex. And even in the digital world, people and teams want to protect their turf. According to IBM’s most recent cyber-resilience report, the top […]