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.
Story #20: California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom remains discontented with advances in government IT, telling an audience at the Techmanity conference in San Jose in October that the public sector is woefully behind the times and on the "cutting edge of 1973." Newsom repeated his call for a full-scale move to the cloud, and he criticized a culture of incumbency that stifles emerging technologies. Specifically, Newsom said the state continues to struggle with legacy systems patched over the decades. The California Department of Technology this summer launched CalCloud — a private cloud for state and local agencies operated in partnership with IBM. State CIO Carlos Ramos has said California is working to adopt cloud technologies where appropriate.
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2014 Stories of the Year:
#25: DGS Releases Memo on Personal Services Contracts
#24: Rebecca Skarr Appointed Department of General Services CIO
#23: Governor Appoints John Boule as Office of Systems Integration Director
#22: Statewide Project Management Office Approved in State Budget
#21: Josh Nisbet Leaves CGI, Joins Deloitte in Sacramento
