OCIO - The Tech Blog

12/23/10 - Bill Maile

OCIO 2010 Year In Review

12/16/10 - Rachelle Chong

Inspiring Our Middle School Students to be Digitally Literate – the Fun Way

09/28/10 - Rachelle Chong

FCC’s White Spaces Decision Frees Up Unused TV Airwaves Between TV Channels.

09/16/10 - Rachelle Chong

California Wins $218 Million in Broadband Economic Stimulus Grants To Close Digital Divide.

09/13/10 - Bill Maile

EDD Announces Technology Projects.

08/12/10 - Rob Schmidt

Collaborating on Server Virtualization Best Practices.

08/10/10 - Rachelle Chong

Getting Connected to the Internet Gets a Little Easier.

07/01/10 - Carol Kelly

Progress Being Made on IT Consolidation Effort.

06/10/10 - Rob Quigley

Rob Quigley, Social Media Director, Office of the Governor

Last week, Governor Schwarzenegger sat down in front of a live streaming camera and took questions tweeted to him from his 1.7 million Twitter followers.

06/02/10 - Dane Wilson

On June first, we posted a video to the California YouTube channel to demonstrate the new, recently launched, CA.gov website. I commissioned the video to showcase the new designs and features of http://www.ca.gov/. We’re also going to put out videos on our updated mobile.ca.gov and data.ca.gov websites within the next few days.

05/20/10 - Rob Schmidt

Rob Schmidt, Project Manager, Consolidation

As the OCIO moves ahead in implementing the Governor’s Executive Order S-03-10 to consolidate the state’s IT infrastructure, this week the Infrastructure Consolidation Program (ICP) team released the Server virtualization practices documents for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtualization environments.

05/12/10 - Teri Takai

Teri Takai, Chief Information Officer

It is that time again when the Government Technology Conference is being held in Sacramento to, among other things, showcase all of the great work California IT professionals are doing to help improve government operations.

05/11/10 - Jack Gibbons

Jack Gibbons, ITMA Principal

ITMA class unveils new collaboration portal for state IT community

05/06/10 - Teri Takai

Teri Takai, Chief Information Officer

Next week, I am excited to attend the annual Government Technology conference here in Sacramento on May 11 and 12.

03/25/10 - Bill Maile

Bill Maile, Director of Communications - OCIO

OSI Unveils Framework for IT Project Success

03/15/10 - Teri Takai

Teri Takai, Chief Information Officer

This week, I am looking forward to a terrific opportunity to speak on a panel at CSU Sacramento.

03/01/10 - Mark Weatherford

Mark Weatherford, Director and Chief Information Security Officer

What's your Password IQ?

02/22/10 - Bill Maile

Bill Maile, Director of Communications - OCIO

DMV Launches iPhone App

01/25/10 - Mark Weatherford

Mark Weatherford, Director and Chief Information Security Officer

Wireless hotspots are changing the way people work by providing high-speed Internet connections in public locations and as the state begins to encourage more Teleworking and remote access to government networks, it’s important to remember your security ABC’s.

Read More >> http://www.cio.ca.gov/Public/Tech_Blog/012510_mweatherford.html

01/25/10 - Bill Maile

Bill Maile, Director of Communications - OCIO

At last month's Technology Services Board meeting, Office of Technology Services (OTech) Director PK Agarwal reported that the department has been saving $100,000 a month since they vacated part of their aging Cannery Campus last summer.

01/19/10 - Mark Weatherford

Mark Weatherford, Director and Chief Information Security Officer

The recent earthquake in Haiti has opened the door again for those unsavory characters who use tragedy to dupe, deceive, and otherwise take advantage of the naive and unwary.

Read More >> http://www.cio.ca.gov/Public/Tech_Blog/011910_mweatherford.html

01/19/10 - Teri Takai

Teri Takai, Chief Information Officer

This week, state IT officials will have a terrific opportunity to attend the Executive Institute (ei) , an annual two-day event hosted by the Office of Technology Services in fact, this year we are celebrating its 20th anniversary.

Read More >> http://www.cio.ca.gov/Public/Tech_Blog/011910_ttakai.html

01/14/10 - Michael Byrne

Michael Byrne, Geospatial Information Officer (GIO)

The Bureau of Reclamation's Central Valley Habitat Monitoring Program (CVHM) released its final dataset this winter.

12/31/09 - Bill Maile

Bill Maile, Director of Communications - OCIO

OCIO: A Look Back at 2009

12/22/09 - Mark Weatherford

Mark Weatherford, Director and Chief Information Security Officer - OCIO

Office of Information Security receives $3.69M in DHS Grant Funding.

12/10/09 - Carol Kelly

The E-Hub Statewide Procurement and Implementation Team has been honored with a Best of California award from the Center for Digital Government.

12/09/09 - Christy Quinlan

Today, we had a successful meeting of the State 9-1-1 Advisory Board, including a number of interesting and informative presentations.

12/03/09 - P.K. Agarwal

Today, we celebrate winning the Center for Digital Governments Best of Californias award for Most Innovative Use of Technology for our iPhone application CA.gov Services Locator.

12/03/09 - Daphne Rhoe

At the state level, we are always working on ways to improve emergency response to better serve Californians.

11/09/09 - Leo Barnes

Leo Barnes, Planning & Policy Unit, Office of Technology Services (OTech)

Nearly 200 people attended the 8th Annual IT Security Awareness Fair in October.

10/20/09 - P.K. Agarwal

P.K. Agarwal, Director, Office of Technology Services (OTech)

What's green, inexpensive, and saves thousands of trees each year?

10/06/09 - Michael Byrne

Michael Byrne, Geospatial Information Officer (GIO)

Broadband Mapping Announcement

10/06/09 - GariRae Gray

GariRae Gray, OCIO Principal, Policy Office

OCIO Launches Data Center Energy Efficiency Training

09/22/09 - Christy Quinlan

Christy Quinlan, Chief Deputy Director (OCIO)

Open Continuous Online Testing

Ream More >> http://www.cio.ca.gov/Public/Tech_Blog/092209_cquinlan.html