The California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA) is using a new solution from IBM and Pancetera to better manage their archived data while improving backup of their live data. By consolidating and managing some 80 percent of its data on virtual machines, Cal EMA expects to reduce 75 percent of its decades-old data backup.
Arizona’s Government Information Technology Agency (GITA) announced its FY 2011 Statewide Strategic IT Plan this week, outlining the state’s technology priorities and recapping some of the state’s accomplishments. Achieving efficiency & cost savings, enabling the private sector and building platforms for citizen engagement are among the five statewide goals outlined in the Plan.
According to a new study compiled by Accenture, both public and private sector organizations are investing more heavily in open source software than they were two years ago. Additionally, survey respondents indicated a shift in perceived reliability and speed of OSS solutions, pushing demand higher in the future. In a comparison of five industries: financial [...]
Despite the scheduled end to many federally funded Recovery Act programs and projected budget gaps into the next two or three fiscal years, a report released Wednesday says state and local information technology budgets over the next five years are expected to increase from $52.8 billion to $61.5 billion. Analysts at INPUT suggest that law [...]
Due to the lingering economic strain on state budgets, increased pressure has been added to the role of state chief information officers. Governors and legislatures have demanded that IT be used to streamline and save like never before, but according to a new survey of state CIOs, legislative changes are needed to enable CIOs to [...]
According to a request for proposal (RFP) issued earlier this month, the City of Memphis, Tennessee is looking to extend an outsourcing contract for its IT infrastructure and Application Maintenance and Support (AM&S) services. The deal could be worth more than $35 million over five years, with two one-year options. The five-year base contract could [...]
Last week, the City of Toronto added several datasets to its growing catalog of government data. Toronto CIO Dave Wallace spoke to CivSource about the newest release and his team’s efforts to make open data and transparent government a routine part of civil service in Toronto.
According to a new study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, cities around the world are beginning to treat high-speed Internet access and related information technologies as an essential component of their economic development and citizen engagement strategies.
In March, CivSource reported on the release of eight case studies from the Technology For Transparency Network examining transparency initiatives across the globe. The case studies took place in China, Kenya, India, Mexico, Zimbabwe, and Brazil and have led to a broader report examining the effects of online technology projects in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, [...]
In a presentation at the University of Maryland this week, Governor Martin O’Malley said that government transparency and openness, through the relentless collection of data, was the future of public policy. He also spoke of the challenges in completing a data-reliant picture when coordinating with other states or county jurisdictions.
