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Dean Gialamas, a familiar face in Southern California IT circles, has been tapped as the next IT bureau chief and CIO for the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Techwire is pleased to welcome Informatica Corp. to the Techwire family. Informatica, a global leader in enterprise cloud data management, helps the public and private sectors accelerate data-driven digital transformation. The Informatica Intelligent Data Platform offers departments a comprehensive, versatile data platform capable of powering current apps, analytics and AI with intelligent automation and governance; its next-gen analytics solutions help governments wield big data, cloud, and visualizations for instant answers. For more information, visit informatica.com or contact Scott Reilly, whose focus is state departments and agencies; or Clayton Lewis, whose focus is statewide local government and education.
The purchases, ranging in price from several million to several hundred thousand dollars, seem to indicate the department aims to improve existing hardware and software while keeping an eye on cybersecurity.
As drones are more commonly used by first responders, public safety personnel, watchdogs and observers discuss how working together is key to maintaining residents’ trust.
Two major state departments are recruiting for technology leaders, as one of them will bid farewell to a 30-year veteran of private and public service.
Rico Rubiono, chief information officer for the California Department of Motor Vehicles and deputy director of its Information Services Division, discusses the department's ongoing tech modernization, how his role has changed, his favorite projects and how procurement might be improved.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, who last year convened a DMV Strike Team to assess that department's modernization work, on Wednesday announced the formation of an Employment Development Department strike team to create “a blueprint for improvements at EDD, including a re-imagining of their technology systems."
The 2020-2021 Fiscal Year California budget is packed with department-level detail. Here's an examination of state agencies' shares of that $202 billion pot, with information on locating heavy-hitters in tech and innovation.
The California Department of Transportation has spent tens of millions of dollars on IT goods so far this year, as might be expected from one of the largest departments in the nation’s most populous state.
The application deadline for this position is looming; however, it presents the opportunity to join the nation's second-largest city by population in a key IT role recently vacated by a veteran IT leader.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, who reappointed Amy Tong this spring as state chief information officer, made two appointments Tuesday at the California Department of Technology — the agency she directs — and one reappointment at the California Department of Transportation.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles will continue working with a nearly 10-year private-sector partner, in an effort to address so-called "dishonored checks" and customer keying mistakes.
The California Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will start collecting information on COVID-19 patients’ sexual orientation and gender identity – which is also an aim of an active Senate Bill amended Monday to include the reporting of that information for all communicable diseases reported to HHS.
The new budget for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services is smaller than last year's model, as might be expected during an economic downturn, but it reflects a steadfast commitment to emergency response and the technology to do that.
The Office of Systems Integration (OSI), part of the California Health and Human Services Agency, is among the large spenders in state government when it comes to IT goods and services. Its mission statement says: “OSI will be the trusted leader in the management and delivery of large, complex technology projects, enabling improved service delivery to the people of California.”
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System is recruiting for a consultant to play a significant role in a historically large technology modernization project.
The state technology agency is looking for a key player in its data squad -- someone who must take on “a variety of complex data analytical, data visualization and data science tasks and activities,” and work with “cross-functional teams and business programs to analyze their business problems ... .”
The California state Legislature extended its summer recess due to COVID-19 cases and concerns – but, upon returning Monday, they'll now have just five weeks to pass about 700 bills, including several key pieces of technology and broadband legislation.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Couchbase to the Techwire family. Couchbase is an award-winning, distributed NoSQL cloud database that offers scalability, performance and value in on-prem, cloud and hybrid deployments. The company provides an enterprise-class, multicloud to edge database with the robust capabilities needed to run business-critical applications. As a distributed cloud-native database, Couchbase is at home in customer or managed-as-as-service cloud environments. Built on open standards, it blends key attributes from NoSQL and SQL, simplifying transitions from mainframe and other architectures. Clients include such household names as Comcast/Sky, United Airlines, Verizon and hundreds of others. For more information, visit couchbase.com or contact Curt Phare.
Meeting on Zoom, the California Broadband Council heard about new contracts in the deployment of the state's Next Generation 911 system, progress made closing the digital divide and concerns about digital equity.
Officials are using the COVID-19 pandemic to reinvent how the city operates, including greater use of technology, more people working from home, streamlined problem-solving and increased focus on city assets like buildings.
The Techwire editorial team comes across a lot of news and commentary online that is worth noting, for those who follow California public-sector IT. Here are a few things we've noticed recently that you might find interesting.
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Forrester just published The Forrester Wave — Cloud Native Application Protection Solutions, an independent evaluation of 14 vendors in the CNAPP market. Wiz was named the Leader and received the highest score!
Technological innovation in artificial intelligence has shifted. For the better part of a decade, AI operated within tightly bounded constraints: classifying images, generating text, and using these capabilities to surface recommendations. While these systems were powerful, they were fundamentally passive. They needed to receive a prompt in order to return a result. Once the result was achieved, the system stopped.
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