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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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Poll books, the digital equivalent to paper voter rolls used at traditional polling places, suffered from major delays due to network and capacity issues, according to the report by the the Los Angeles County Registrar's Office.
The top 10 purchases to date in June include licenses, laptops, routers and servers. This list includes the purchasing agency, the item, the amount and the supplier.
As part of its ongoing quest to more closely connect readers in gov tech and the technology industry, Techwire heard from Patrick Dennis, chief information officer at the California Department of Parks and Recreation, on his role; the rise of "Statewide Broadband as a Service"; and reaching visitors where they are.
Three proposed pieces of technology legislation have so far survived an action-packed legislative session. Two would refine aspects of the California Consumer Privacy Act, while a third looks at the electronic verification of identity.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Infor to the Techwire family. Infor is a leader worldwide in business cloud software products that are designed to enable progress for companies in industry-specific markets. It creates full cloud-based industry suites and uses technology efficiently to prioritize the user experience, leverage data science and smoothly integrate with existing systems. Infor has 17,300 employees and more than 68,000 customers in more than 170 countries. Customers include leading high-tech companies and 19 of the largest U.S. cities. For more information, visit infor.com or contact Marta Massoodnia.
The Sacramento-area executive's transition to VIP's Infor Practice director follows his 17 years as a leader with Infor, most recently as that company's director of Product Management, Public Sector.
The California Department of Justice position oversees three branches within the Enterprise Service Bureau — Cybersecurity, Enterprise Support, and Project Management and Procurement. The CISO recruitment is for the city of Riverside, the state's 12th-largest city.
The East Bay transit district is seeking proposals for a three-year contract, with two one-year options, for a provider to host and support its PeopleSoft applications in the cloud.
If utilities cut power again this summer, as they did last year, home offices that were set up during the pandemic could go dark and stay dark for days, and remote workers will have no corporate offices to flee to for power.
California awarded the University of California-San Francisco an $8.7 million contract in May to expand the academy and train 20,000 new contact tracers throughout the state by July — one of the nation’s largest such efforts.
Application deadlines for the five positions are in late June and July. The position classifications include supervising transportation engineer, chief technology officer and enterprise solution architect.
In a recent Request for Information, the California Department of Technology wants to hear from vendors about creating a comprehensive new data management system to manage "cradle-to-career" resident information. It would link data from schools, state agencies, employers and others — and connect to other state systems.
Chief Scott Howland will retire as the CHP's chief information officer at month's end. He shared with Techwire some of his perspectives about IT -- and some of the advice he's giving his successor, Chief Chris Childs.
Alastair Mactaggart, who spearheaded the 2018 ballot initiative that led to the California Consumer Privacy Act, discussed his new proposed ballot initiative on privacy Friday with members of the California State Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection.
The 30-year veteran state executive reflects on the changes he's seen and helped effect, and looks ahead to what comes after finishing his run as agency information officer for two of state government's biggest entities — the Government Operations Agency and the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency.
"We are an experiment on the vanguard of something truly exciting … and truly essential, if we are to have an economic recovery that supports everyone. The time of the public option for education is coming, and we’re proud to be part of what that looks like."
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is poised to begin a "rotational" return to the office as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic wears on, its chief information officer said during a Techwire Virtual Member Briefing. The department is also working to make its IT infrastructure more modern and robust.
Application deadlines for the five key positions are this month. The position classifications include IT Specialist II and IT Supervisor II.
As part of its ongoing quest to more closely connect readers in gov tech and the technology industry, Techwire heard from Sumi Smith, chief information officer and chief information security officer for the California Department of Housing and Community Development.
A Southern California provider of water and power is planning some massive hardware, software and consulting RFPs.
Faculty unions and some key legislators call Calbright a botched experiment that duplicates the work of traditional community colleges. Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley, however, says lawmakers should be accelerating online learning amid soaring unemployment.
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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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