State & Local

CalPERS broke the mold to get systems modernized

California retirement agency interpreted a hard deadline as permission to do what was necessary. Then they did it.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Calif. county taking 15,000 employees to Microsoft Office 365

County officials are stepping up efforts to transform operations and improve the quality of services to residents while at the same time lower IT management costs.

Cloud & Infrastructure

18 California courts to share procurement services

The Superior Court of California, County of Riverside is sponsoring the Shared Procurement Services Pilot Project, providing the services of a trial court procurement specialist to the other courts via BidSync, a procurement-as-a-service provider.

Cloud & Infrastructure

10 agency IT projects take 2012 GCN Awards

The winning project teams found creative solutions to challenges in information sharing, end user services, military communications and other areas.

Cybersecurity

California loses personal info for 700,000...on microfiche

The records, including Social Security numbers and state ID numbers for home care workers and recipients, were lost or stolen while in the mail.

State & Local

The best mobile apps: Simple, easy to use, ready to reuse

CIOs describe what works with mobile application development at NASCIO's Mid-year Conference.

Cybersecurity

Tony Bennett left his heart, others leave mobile devices in San Francisco

A survey of hotels in the city shows a surprising number of mobile devices, particularly smart phones and tablets, get separated from their owners, and most go unclaimed.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Apple, Google, MS, 3 others on board with mobile apps privacy mandate

A new agreement will call for app developers to provide clear information on their individual privacy policies before their products are downloaded.

State & Local

Can NASA give away a working satellite?

The GALEX space telescope is functioning fine, but its funding has dried up. If CalTech doesn't take over, it becomes one more piece of space junk.

Cloud & Infrastructure

If you need cool servers, open a window

Department of Energy scientists want to use outside air, and not much else, to cool the agency's new facility and supercomputer.

Cybersecurity

Hackers strike again: California city's site latest target

The city of Sacramento, California's, website is the most recent government website to suffer an attack, which is becoming a trend. So who will be next?

Cloud & Infrastructure

LiveBallot gets overseas votes to the polls on time

Voters living overseas from Florida, Virginia and California can now get absentee ballots via a secure Web portal powered by Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.

Cybersecurity

Undead virus pilfered college servers for more than 10 years

The City College of San Francisco recently found a virus that had been taking banking and other data from students since 1999, proving a point about long-lived threats.

State & Local

States, cities, pursue 'any-device' mobile platforms

State and local government CIOs are rushing to answer the public's demand for 'all information, anytime, from any device'.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Secure cloud service: If you build it, you have to sell it.

California's Office of Technology Services depends on charge-backs from customers to fund its cloud-based Secure File Transfer.

Cloud & Infrastructure

In California, secure file transport goes through the cloud

The state hosts its Secure File Transfer service on a private cloud, offering it on a pay-as-you-go basis to government entities and their partners throughout California.

Cybersecurity

Calif. joins fight against cyber crime

The state of California is targeting online crooks with its new cyber crimes unit announced this week.

State & Local

Legislative alert app highlights hackathon

An app that would send out real-time alerts when a topic will be debated or voted on at a public meeting was a highlight of the CityCampSF Hackathon.

State & Local

Hackathon aims to produce open government apps

Open government should get a boost from an event being held this weekend in San Francisco, according to event sponsor Granicus Inc.

State & Local

BART: 'Extraordinary circumstances' only for disrupting cell phones

The policy, adopted the wake of last summer's protests during which cell phone service was shut off, is not likely to quell criticism. The FCC says it will review the matter.

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