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 #12: The next version of California Email Services (CES) will become the state’s primary email platform, expanding upon the current CES offering hosted by Microsoft in the Office 365 environment, which accounts for 100,000 of the state’s 200,000 mailboxes. Another 80,000 mailboxes currently are housed within CA Mail, the state’s in-house email system running on a Microsoft Exchange platform. It appears CA Mail users eventually will be migrated into the hosted CES system after the new contract is awarded in early 2015.
Read more about this story at Techwire here (Insider).
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
#20: Newsom Jabs Government IT, Vendors — Again
#19: Stilling Named CalTech Deputy Director for IT Project Oversight and Consulting
#18: California State Transportation Agency Hires First CIO
#17: California Lottery Taps CalPERS for New CIO
#16: Brown Signs Next-Gen 911 Planning Bill
#15: Corrections Scans 200 Million Inmate Documents, Completes SOMS Project
#14: Amy Tong Appointed OSI Chief Deputy Director
#13: Gov. Brown Vetoes Bills on Contract Performance, Personal Services
