State of the TECHNOLOGY UNION Dear Colleagues, It has been almost 10 months since I joined the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) as CIO. During this time, we have made significant progress in delivering optimal services to the OCFO community and our constituents, the taxpayers. While many of the changes may not be immediately apparent to you, they are important and couldn't have been done without the active support of the entire OCFO. Over the last few months we have changed the strategy of OCFO's technical infrastructure to a "cloud now" (*see below) strategy. We are actively moving our applications to the cloud as fast as possible. The cloud provides better service levels than we can provide internally. We have also moved our patch management system to the cloud, giving us visibility into all OCFO-owned computers anywhere in the world as long as they are connected to the internet. This gives us ability to reach your machine anywhere in case you need technical support. In coordination with our friends at OCTO, we have moved to Office 365, giving you access to all office applications on any device. Office 365 virtually eliminates the mailbox size limit and gives 1 TB on-line storage space to each OCFO user. The 1TB additional storage can be used instead of existing file shares and the files on OneDrive are available on any device inside and outside of the OCFO network. The OCIO team will be arranging training for Office 2016 applications for all users. These are only few examples of the improvements made with many more to come within the next few years. CONTINUE READING WINTER 2018 | 13