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The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.3% in the fourth quarter of 2024, a slowdown from the 3.1% growth in the previous quarter. Consumer and government spending drove the increase, while investment declined. Inflation indicators showed modest increases, with the PCE price index rising 2.4% and core inflation (excluding food and energy) up 2.7%. The full-year GDP growth for 2024 was 2.8%, reflecting steady economic expansion despite shifting investment trends.

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Conference / Summit

Cybersecurity

Networking

State and Local Government

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Join NetApp and Carahsoft on October 6th to discover how your agency can modernize infrastructure, strengthen cyber resilience and optimize IT spending with NetApp Keystone Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS). As agencies face growing demands to improve operational efficiency while supporting hybrid cloud and emerging AI workloads, Keystone delivers the flexibility, scalability and security needed to achieve mission success without the complexity of traditional infrastructure investments. During this webinar, our experts will explore how a consumption-based approach to storage helps agencies accelerate modernization, improve budget predictability and support mission-critical applications across hybrid MultiCloud environments.Attendees of this webinar will learn how to:<ul style="color: rgb(33, 37, 41);"><li>Reduce costs and increase flexibility with a consumption-based Storage-as-a-Service model.</li><li>Build secure, scalable hybrid MultiCloud environments for mission-critical workloads.</li><li>Strengthen cyber resilience while preparing infrastructure for AI and data-intensive applications.</li></ul><div style="color: rgb(33, 37, 41);">Register to learn how NetApp Keystone can help your agency meet modernization goals, improve operational efficiency and build a more agile, resilient IT environment.</div><ul>
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Join NetApp and Carahsoft on October 6th to discover how your agency can modernize infrastructure, strengthen cyber resilience and optimize IT spending with NetApp Keystone Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS). As agencies face growing demands to improve operational efficiency while supporting hybrid cloud and emerging AI workloads, Keystone delivers the flexibility, scalability and security needed to achieve mission success without the complexity of traditional infrastructure investments. During this webinar, our experts will explore how a consumption-based approach to storage helps agencies accelerate modernization, improve budget predictability and support mission-critical applications across hybrid MultiCloud environments. Attendees of this webinar will learn how to: Reduce costs and increase flexibility with a consumption-based Storage-as-a-Service model. Build secure, scalable hybrid MultiCloud environments for mission-critical workloads. Strengthen cyber resilience while preparing infrastructure for AI and data-intensive applications. Register to learn how NetApp Keystone can help your agency meet modernization goals, improve operational efficiency and build a more agile, resilient IT environment.

Virtual / Online

Webinar / Webcast

Artificial Intelligence

Cloud Computing

Private Sector

NetApp Government Team at Carahsoft

Carahsoft Technology Corp.

NetApp

Modern IT, On Demand: Powering Federal Missions with NetApp Keystone

Defense agencies, national labs, and research orgs now run
workloads across on-prem HPC, hyperscalers, and GPU neo clouds — but the
practitioner experience hasn’t kept up. Research shows the cost: 55.4% of
government tech orgs spend 26–50% of their app-dev budget on legacy technical
debt, 56% cite missing shared security context across on-prem and cloud as the
top barrier to a unified posture, and 48% name compliance documentation as
developers’ biggest cognitive load.<o:p></o:p>

In this fireside chat, analyst Paul Nashawaty joins David
Flynn of Hammerspace and Matthew Shaxted of Parallel Works to unpack managing
compute and data across distributed environments. They’ll share lessons from
real deployments — including a defense research project that onboarded 100
users to Kubernetes and Slurm in three days and hit 95% cluster utilization in
two weeks — and how to unify heterogeneous infrastructure without giving up
security or control.<o:p></o:p>

What you’ll learn:<o:p></o:p>

<ul><li>Why the shift from building AI to running AI has made
unified orchestration a priority</li><li>Why compute and data orchestration must be solved together,
and what breaks when they aren’t</li><li>How to build security and compliance guardrails into the
platform instead of bolting them on</li><li>What makes defense and government environments uniquely
demanding, and how those lessons carry over to commercial and regulated
industries</li><li>How to turn neo cloud and HPC investments into fully
utilized resources, fast</li><li>Where most organizations really sit on the maturity curve,
and a practical first step toward a single plane of orchestration</li></ul><o:p></o:p>

Defense agencies, national labs, and research orgs now run workloads across on-prem HPC, hyperscalers, and GPU neo clouds — but the practitioner experience hasn’t kept up. Research shows the cost: 55.4% of government tech orgs spend 26–50% of their app-dev budget on legacy technical debt, 56% cite missing shared security context across on-prem and cloud as the top barrier to a unified posture, and 48% name compliance documentation as developers’ biggest cognitive load. In this fireside chat, analyst Paul Nashawaty joins David Flynn of Hammerspace and Matthew Shaxted of Parallel Works to unpack managing compute and data across distributed environments. They’ll share lessons from real deployments — including a defense research project that onboarded 100 users to Kubernetes and Slurm in three days and hit 95% cluster utilization in two weeks — and how to unify heterogeneous infrastructure without giving up security or control. What you’ll learn: Why the shift from building AI to running AI has made unified orchestration a priority Why compute and data orchestration must be solved together, and what breaks when they aren’t How to build security and compliance guardrails into the platform instead of bolting them on What makes defense and government environments uniquely demanding, and how those lessons carry over to commercial and regulated industries How to turn neo cloud and HPC investments into fully utilized resources, fast Where most organizations really sit on the maturity curve, and a practical first step toward a single plane of orchestration

Security

Hammerspace

Why Compute and Data Orchestration Can No Longer Be Solved Separately

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Gross Domestic Product, 4th Quarter of Year 2024

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Topics:	Budget Economy Public Communication
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Author(s):	U.S. Department of Commerce
Publisher:	U.S. Department of Commerce
Published:	February 27, 2025
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