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The department, which has an estimated Fiscal Year 2025 IT budget of $49.3 million, provides administrative services to various judicial-related entities in Florida, including offices of state attorneys, public defenders and other legal offices.
The department is seeking to implement technology solutions and secure maintenance and operations for a new customer portal.
Enterprise application administration, GIS applications development and digital software engineering are the areas for which the city’s Office of Business and Financial Services is seeking candidates.
The state’s environmental management and stewardship agency oversees 175 state parks and more than 12 million acres of public lands and has an estimated annual IT budget of $149.6 million.
During a webinar about NASCIO’s top tech priorities for 2024, Florida’s former CIO dived into the state’s approach to technology and how this year’s list of tech priorities could play a role in state government moving forward.
The capital plan, covering fiscal years 2024 through 2028, allocates $4 million for ERP software and $3 million for utility billing software.
“Dustin truly embodies the creative, passionate and positive values of our company,” said Cathilea Robinett, CEO of e.Republic. “He has accelerated our company’s growth as the driving force behind our forward-thinking initiatives. I look forward to our continued collaboration as we work to empower government and education.”
Industry Insider — Florida is pleased to welcome Veeam to the Industry Insider family. As a global market leader in data protection and ransomware recovery, Veeam aims to empower every organization to bounce forward, not just back, from a data outage or loss. To achieve this, Veeam’s data platform delivers a single solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments that gives IT and security leaders peace of mind that their apps and data are protected and always available. For information, contact Ben Wright or visit www.veeam.com.
The state is hiring IT leadership roles at the Department of Financial Services, Department of Commerce and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, all with application deadlines of Feb. 2.
Industry Insider — Florida is pleased to welcome Oracle Government and Education to the Industry Insider family. Oracle offers agencies a blueprint for total IT modernization through technology such as SaaS application suites for ERP, HCM and CX, database platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) from data centers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, contact Jay Westmark or visit oracle.com.
The hybrid public meeting has been scheduled for Jan. 25, allowing both in-person and remote participation.
To qualify for the opportunity, vendors must be able to install fiber-optic connection hardware and provide controller accessories and an uninterruptible power supply.
Leon County seeks information from vendors for a reliable, geographically diverse and user-friendly next-generation 911 system.
Active state contracts include 17 focused on IT-related needs, from national vehicles such as NASPO to general contracts such as one for cloud solutions.
Industry Insider — Florida is pleased to welcome Tenable to the Industry Insider family. Tenable is a cyber exposure company, providing vulnerability management and cyber compliance solutions. Tenable has more than 40,000 customers worldwide and offers tools for local governments and schools, allowing them to protect citizen data and critical infrastructure. The company is FedRAMP and StateRAMP certified. For information, contact Teddy Gorospe or visit www.tenable.com.
Most of the county’s IT capital funding will go toward purchasing new tech, including NetApp disk shelf flash, laptops, a hybrid phone system, satellite receivers and tuner controllers.
The inaugural Industry Insider — Florida briefing featuring Scott McPherson, former House of Representatives CIO, and Martin Stevens, CIO of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, will provide insights into the state budget and a discussion on IT.
Potential projects include computer, server and hardware replacements; tech acquisitions; upgrades; and an overall network infrastructure expansion.
The state legislative subcommittee approved House Bill 919 on Thursday. The bill would require disclosure of artificial intelligence used in political communications and set fines for failure to comply.
In 2023, reinforcing cybersecurity was top of mind for state agencies, resulting in projects such as a Local Government Cybersecurity Grant Program, establishing data governance guidelines, reducing redundant data and more.
The PALM project is en route to replacing the accounting system used across Florida's state government, and will impact numerous systems. Here are all the funding requests state agencies submitted for this legislative session to make the magic happen.
Each role would fall under different IT-related divisions within the Department of Commerce and focus on administering SQL database servers and providing network design and systems implementations.
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