Here' a roundup of interesting reads we've come across lately:
After almost two years of work, the California Department of Technology (CDT) has finished migrating the state’s two largest email systems to Microsoft’s Office 365 Government Cloud. That’s 198,291 mailboxes representing 78 departments. The CDT’s blog tells the whole story.
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Liability, fraud and other potential minefields should serve as a caution for the newest iteration in ride-sharing services: Ambulettes. Kickback schemes, billing for rides never actually given, illegal referrals, and providing rides to deceased patients are common “non-emergency medical transportation” (NEMT) fraud rackets. Pondera Solutions’ blog explains it in-depth.
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Strictly speaking, this isn’t a blog — it’s way more engaging and illuminating: It’s an interactive website put together by the State Controller's Office that allows users to compare and contrast a variety of public data in myriad ways. Want to compare University of California faculty salaries versus those of California State University? You can do that. Want to compare the salaries of the mayors of San Francisco and Tehama? You can do that, too. It’s fun.
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As part of the University of California’s sesquicentennial (150th) birthday observance, they held a scavenger hunt of sorts. Among the unearthed items: A 1976 tome imaginatively titled Administrative Information Systems in the University of California: The Report of a Task Force.
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Cybersecurity is getting plenty of attention in the IT sector, but there’s one metric, one measure of scrutiny, that it seems to escape: Return on investment, or ROI. Why is cybersecurity exempt from a key criterion applied to virtually every other IT function? Vikram Phatak, CEO of NSS Labs Inc., raises that question in a commentary that bears reading.
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Where’s the real power in the IT C-suite? Chief information security officers increasingly are asserting theirs. “CISOs must explore ways to become influencers within their organizations,” says a blog post about the changing role of the CISO.
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“London's largest airport, Heathrow, is investing in autonomous vehicles for their fleet of transport vehicles. The airport recently announced that it finished primary trials of self-driving airside vehicles.”
