Cloud & Computing
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Iowa CIO Matt Behrens explains how his team spent the past two years completely reorganizing how the state runs IT, with a four-phased approach that eliminated redundancies, streamlined systems, and made state government more efficient and effective. -
The massive effort might be invisible to the average Iowan, says CIO Matt Behrens, but it's setting his organization up for "the delivery of IT for the future."
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A new report just released by Forrester highlights the growing cloud footprint in the public sector globally, along with challenges ahead in areas such as security and modernizing core applications.
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A new concept to develop open source digital infrastructure for the public sector is the focus of a new report by the Jacobs Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech. Authors advocate for a much more collaborative approach to the building process.
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At the NASCIO Midyear conference, Utah CIO Alan Fuller outlined modernization plans and cloud migrations for major systems like health and human services and HR to lower operating costs statewide.
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The February ransomware attack against the Bay Area city exposed personal data and affected city systems for several weeks, but officials are now reporting significant progress in the recovery effort.
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The city of Albuquerque, N.M., has announced that Mark Leech will lead the Department of Technology and Innovation. He takes over for Brian Osterloh, who retired at the end of March after nearly 20 years with the city.
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As Merced County, Calif., embarks on a multiple-year digital transformation journey to better serve constituents, evolving the permitting process involves the unification of previously siloed systems.
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The city of Sacramento, Calif., has appointed its newest CIO from inside the Information Technology Department. Darin Arcolino succeeds Maria MacGunigal, who retired this month after nearly 10 years as CIO.
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Across the city of San Francisco government, teams are working in collaborative ways to improve accessibility to government services and resources to better support people with disabilities.
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The California State Auditor issued a report this week criticizing the Department of Technology for failing to guide the state’s IT needs, failing to assess agencies’ information security systems, and failing to reduce risks to IT projects.
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Officials in Spokane County, Wash., are considering changes to email retention policies as a means of saving money on storage costs. The county pays about $52,000 a year to save well over 10 terabytes of emails.
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The Amazon Web Services unit on Thursday announced two of its own large-language models, one designed to generate text, and another that could help power web search personalization, among other things.
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The distributed ledger technology, used in cryptocurrency, could potentially power food permits, social media access and other tasks. But blockchain still has serious political and logistical obstacles to overcome.
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Passwords are both annoying to use and vulnerable to hackers. Fortunately, big tech is moving to support stronger, easier-to-use passkeys.
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The state is now the second in the nation with legislation requiring parental consent for child social media usage. It follows closely behind a March law signed by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox.
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Officials revamped workforce efforts by implementing new virtual training models, creating digital literacy programs and designing a data-centered platform to connect users with job opportunities based on work history and skill sets.
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Attorney General Chris Carr has announced that the Prosecution Division will be participating in a nationwide investigation into suspected users of Genesis Market, a marketplace known to traffic in the stolen credentials.
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Nevada State Parks is modernizing reservation processes with a cloud-based reservation software to simplify the visitor and staff experience. Officials say the state is the last to modernize its reservation system.
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A mid-March ransomware attack encrypted Camden County police files used in investigations and daily administration work. Another cyber incident hit the county prosecutor’s office.
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The city’s website hasn’t seen an update since 2012 and officials believe that might be why more than half of visitors to the website leave before clicking another button. Brazil-based CI&T will lead the overhaul.
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