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Red River Wins Contract with the CALNET Program for new Category 22 Cloud-Hosted VoIP
February 3, 2021 GMT
CLAREMONT, N.H. & SACRAMENTO, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 3, 2021
Red River, a technology transformation company, announced today that it has been awarded a contract agreement with the California Department of Technology’s (CDT) California Network and Telecommunications (CALNET) Program to provide next-generation data network and communication services to the State of California.
Red River was selected to provide Cloud-Hosted Voice Over Internet (VoIP) services under the new Category 22 service model. Red River is offering Cisco’s Unified Communications Manager Cloud (UCM Cloud) platform – providing enterprise-class call control, session management, voice, video, messaging, mobility, and conferencing services that are scalable, customizable, reliable, private and highly secur
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The upper ranks of corporate security are seeing a high rate of change as companies try to adapt to the evolving threat landscape. Many companies are hiring a chief security officer (CSO) or chief information security officer (CISO) for the first time to support a deeper commitment to information security.
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New CISO appointments, February 2021
California’s Unemployment System Still Unfit a Year Later The state’s Employment Development Department is still flooded with unprocessed benefits claims, millions of dollars worth of fraudulent applications and decades-old problems that continue to slow the process. Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times | January 29, 2021 | Analysis
(TNS) Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, California s beleaguered unemployment benefits system remains mired in dysfunction, leaving many jobless workers in dire straits after their efforts to receive financial assistance have been stymied by jammed phone lines, overwhelmed staff and failed technology.
Millions of out-of-work Californians are still waiting for money they desperately need to feed and clothe their families and avoid ending up on the streets. Payments have instead gone to fulfill fraudulent claims filed in the names of prison inmates, infants, retirees and
A year into pandemic, California’s broken unemployment agency still hurting those in need [Los Angeles Times]
Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, California’s beleaguered unemployment benefits system remains mired in dysfunction, leaving many jobless workers in dire straits after their efforts to receive financial assistance have been stymied by jammed phone lines, overwhelmed staff and failed technology.
Millions of out-of-work Californians are still waiting for money they desperately need to feed and clothe their families and avoid ending up on the streets. Payments have instead gone to fulfill fraudulent claims filed in the names of prison inmates, infants, retirees and people living in other states, with a deluge of applications for benefits coming from criminal gangs operating in Russia, China and Nigeria.