VOD: TechLeader.TV with Budge Currier, Manager, 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Branch, California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) May 16, 2019
42 California government entities sue wireless companies
Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. Impact on Calnet3??? Associated Press Forty-two California government entities, including the Regents of the University of California and Sacramento and Los Angeles counties, have joined a lawsuit against four giant wireless companies alleging they overcharged government customers by more than […]
Highlights from Techleader.TV Appearance by State CIO Carlos Ramos
Here are some of the highlights from CIO Ramos’s interview last week watched LIVE online by over 1,000 viewers: Outlines CalCloud’s Exemption Policy; Says State Should Get Out of eMail Business, Sounding Death Knell for State Hosted CA.Mail??; Explains New Consulting and Oversight Organizations within […]
TechLeader.TV with Davood Ghods, Chief of the Office of Technology Services (OTech); OCT 30, 2014 at 11:30 AM PT
Next Program with Davood Ghods Chief Office of Technology Services (OTech) Live Webcast Hosted By John Thomas Flynn with Special Guest Davood Ghods Chief, OTech Davood oversees approximately 800 FTE’s within the OTech divisions of Operations, Engineering, Customer Delivery, Statewide Telecommunications and Network, Security Management, […]
OTech Chief Ghods Reports on CalNet3, CalCloud, eMail, New MSA for Cloud Services, Drones & more
Techwire’s Industry Briefing yesterday at the Sacramento Sheraton with OTech Chief Davood Ghods provided plenty of solid information to the 50 plus attendees. In addition to a comprehensive description of OTech’s organization, infrastructure and environment, Davood also highlighted several upcoming initiatives of significant interest to […]
GSA Prepares for Next Generation Telecommunications Procurement Vehicle After Networx
With CalNet3 in full swing in California, interesting to look at the Fed’s new telecom procurement strategy with recently issued strategy paper and an RFI. RFP expected in FY2015. The General Services Administration’s next-generation telecommunications strategy is moving ahead, driven by an emerging contracting vehicle […]
State of California Telecom/Calnet3 Leader Russ Guarna Retiring
TLTV has learned that after almost 30 years of state service, former TLTV guest Russ Guarna is retiring the end of January 2014. Just last July Russ became the first Deputy Director of the new Statewide Technology Procurement Division (STPD) within the newly reorganized California Department […]
US GAO Announces Fed Telecom Networx’s Transition Costs $67 Million Over Budget: Lesson for Calnet3?
The Statewide Technology Procurement Division, otherwise caught up in all the Calnet3 procurement processes and procedures, may find of interest a new GAO study of the Fed’s mammoth telecom vehicle Networx. Specifically, GAO reported that unanticipated “transition” costs from the old FTS2001 to Networx wasted […]