Since last summer when the state debuted its CalCloud arrangement with IBM, some in the vendor community had expressed confusion about when and how state customers are allowed to purchase cloud services.
With 2014 coming to a close, Techwire is counting down its Top 25 news stories of the year. Check back each day through Dec. 31 as we look back at the people, projects and events that made news during the year gone by.
A New Year is around the corner, and with it the potential for a vast array of new technologies. 2014 was a year of rapid changes, and there is no sign of a slowdown ahead. Techwire recently talked to several technology leaders to ask them what they expect to see next and what they think is important for the industry and government in the upcoming year and beyond.
Longtime state procurement official Russ Guarna in January resigned his position as deputy director of the Statewide Technology Procurement Division at the Department of Technology to join the nation’s largest technology trade association.
The next version of California Email Services (CES) will become the state’s primary email platform, expanding upon the current offering hosted by Microsoft in the Office 365 environment
OSI’s projects include the Statewide Welfare Automation System Child Welfare Services’ case management system and the Unemployment Insurance Modernization Project.
The Strategic Offender Management System (SOMS) modernized legacy computer systems so officials can obtain access to accurate and complete offender information.
California’s technology community will be gathering on Dec. 18 in Sacramento for a holiday mixer aimed to benefit the PowerHouse Science Center and STEM Museum.
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom remains discontented with advances in government IT, telling an audience in October that the public sector is woefully behind the times and on the "cutting edge of 1973."
Nisbet's duties include market eminence, and building and expanding relationships with clients in the California state and local government marketplace, according to Deloitte.
s director of the Office of Systems Integration, Boule manages a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of large, complex health and human services information technology projects.
With 2014 coming to a close, Techwire is counting down its Top 25 news stories of the year. Check back each day through Dec. 31 as we look back at the people, projects and events that made news during the year gone by.
Hosted by Techwire, the first-annual State of Technology Industry Forum was held December 10 in Sacramento. Produced in association with the California Department of Technology, IT Alliance for Public Sector and TechAmerica, the half-day event provided the 250 attendees from the public and private sector a wide perspective on California’s government IT landscape for the upcoming year.
Editor’s Note: With 2014 coming to a close, Techwire is counting down its Top 25 news stories of the year. Check back each day through Dec. 31 as we look back at the people, projects and events that made news during the year gone by.
California Department of Technology Director and State CIO Carlos Ramos gave the keynote address at the State of Technology Industry Forum hosted by Techwire on December 10, 2014 in Sacramento. Ramos discussed the state's cloud initiative and the State Technology Approval Reform (STAR) project, among other issues related to California's technology industry.
Hosted by Techwire, the first-annual State of Technology Industry Forum is being produced in association with the California Department of Technology, IT Alliance for Public Sector and TechAmerica.
During a Techwire Industry Briefing on Sept. 10, 2014, Office of Technology Services Chief Davood Ghods gave an informative presentation summarizing the office’s roles, responsibilities, and future initiatives and goals.
As the chief, he oversees approximately 700 staff which includes the divisions of Operations, Engineering, Customer Delivery, Statewide Telecommunications and Network, Security Management, IT Support along with the majority of the data center and network consolidation efforts for the California Department of Technology.
The City of Sacramento is recruiting for an IT Manager / Innovation Leader, within its Department of Information Technology, to lead a team focused on enhancing business processes in city government.
The Data Analytics Conference was held on May 13 in Sacramento. Ann Boynton, deputy executive officer of CalPERS opened the conference with the keynote presentation about her agency. A panel discussion was then moderated by Office of Systems Integration Chief Deputy Director Shell Culp, and included as panelists Boynton, Department of Health Care Services CIO Chris Cruz and California Geospatial Information Officer Scott Gregory.
