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# 1: The California Department of Technology in July officially unveiled CalCloud, the new service managed by IBM at the state’s data center. The system is California’s answer to increasing demand for cloud computing infrastructure among government users. Officials said the delivery model — hosted in a secure state facility and operated by a vendor — is unique in the state government market. State agencies, local governments, and education institutions can choose to purchase bundled packages of servers, storage, backup, disaster recovery and more from CalCloud. George Cruser, IBM’s public-sector general manager of global technology services, said CalCloud will be updated and modernized during the life of the company’s five-year contract. The contract requires IBM to train staff at the Office of Technology Services so the state can run the cloud on its own someday.
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