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- Officials from the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and State Teachers’ Retirement System shared their priorities during an exclusive briefing Thursday.
- Both agencies are working to modernize and perfect critical systems, while keeping an eye on where new technologies can be integrated.
- Officials say they need vendor partners who understand the mission and the security sensitivity surrounding their work.
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The state’s second most populous city isn’t reprioritizing code enforcement cases — but rather, preparing to change how residents can report them.
Vallejo has approved an agreement with KeyE Corp. for its police department to use a cellular site simulator, a device that masquerades as a cell tower.
The role includes overseeing the work of two IT Supervisors in support of multiple business areas and technologies within the IT domains of Software and System Engineering, and Project Management.
Private-sector researchers and officials with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) say that one or two weeks is not enough time to get a thorough understanding of the effects of greatly reducing traffic.
In a Request for Information, the state Office of Systems Integration seeks information from vendors who might ultimately help it maintain the Child Welfare Services/Case Management System (CWS/CMS), “the largest single child welfare system in the nation.”
Spending and priorities in government IT are shifting as governments adjust to life in the time of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). A webinar presented by e.Republic offered some advice for those who sell to state and local government.
The Los Angeles City Council canceled its last two meetings in March last week, as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic gathered strength. Now, having tested remote dial-in, the council will hold an emergency meeting Friday.
The novel coronavirus pandemic's impact on California still isn't clear, but a state watchdog agency's meeting Thursday highlighted recent developments among state departments and in the Legislature that could impact gov tech projects and bills.
Two key California cities' chief information officers discuss the solutions they're using to enable municipal employees to work remotely during "shelter in place" orders.
A spokesperson for the Employment Development Department said the agency has been working to update its current systems for some time.
President Trump indicated he'll relax the Oct. 1 deadline for California residents to obtain a federally mandated Real ID, but a California Department of Motor Vehicles official said the coronavirus pandemic shouldn't impact the agency's ongoing tech initiatives.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Qumulo to the Techwire family. Qumulo provides enterprise-level hybrid cloud file storage capable of delivering real-time visibility and control of your data, both on-prem and in the cloud. Its scalable, software-defined system enables programmatic configuration and management of capacity, usage and performance. Besides storage, governments and educational institutions can use Qumulo to integrate with video surveillance system software and store CCTV and aerial images, body camera footage and security device data. For more information visit qumulo.com or contact Donald Schiltz.
“They made it very clear from the start that based on the team I put together, the skill sets that we brought and the cultural fit made it extremely important to them that the entire team comes along," said Pondera founder and CEO Jon Coss.
The honorees, part of Government Technology magazine's Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers, also included the general manager of Los Angeles' transportation agency. Honorees stood out for being mission-driven, collaborative and trust builders.
Techwire is pleased to welcome InterVision Systems Technologies to the Techwire family. InterVision offers state and local governments leading-edge cloud services expertise and an understanding of practice deepened over 25 years. The company helps IT leaders quantify cost, risk and opportunity to identify strategic services that are the right fit. Among its public-sector use cases, InterVision tailored a multi-level cloud data storage system for the California Department of Tax & Fee Administration based on frequency of access. For more information, visit intervision.com or contact Tom Keane.
The positions are with a variety of departments, dealing with transportation, child welfare and taxes.
Tom Keane, based in the Sacramento area, most recently led Public Sector sales for KPMG; previously, he held sales and consulting roles with tech firms including Oracle, IDC, Siebel Systems and IBM.
She is a veteran of the IT sector with more than 20 years’ experience in project management and oversight of large-scale system integration projects in state government. She's also worked as a consultant in the private sector.
One council member said the decision was "incredibly frustrating," and said he'd go to a meeting "with a mask or gown or whatever we need, or I’m perfectly willing to do it remotely.”
In an effort to stimulate competitive responses, San Bernardino County and Riverside County have jointly issued a request for proposal seeking vendors to provide physical and digital document storage.
Thanks to the novel coronavirus, California is about to embark on an enormous unplanned experiment in remote learning — and no one knows how long it will last. The first challenge is simple: making sure everyone can log on.
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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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