Databricks is pleased to announce that Photon, the record-setting next-generation query engine for lakehouse systems, is now generally available on Databricks across all major cloud platforms. Photon, built from the ground up by the original creators of Apache Spark™ and fully compatible with modern Spark workloads, delivers fast performance with lower TCO on cloud hardware for all [...]

Microsoft’s Digital Equity Dashboard, a new interactive dataset, offers one of the most complete and granular pictures of digital equity in California to date. Created by Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, the dashboard includes a Census-tract by Census-tract exploration of the Digital Divide in the United States. The dashboard examines twenty different indicators of digital equity [...]

Google is expanding their commitment in the United States with the creation of Google Public Sector, a new Google division that will focus on helping U.S. public sector institutions—including federal, state, and local governments, and educational institutions—accelerate their digital transformations. This new division will operate as a subsidiary of Google LLC and will specialize in bringing Google [...]

TechCA, California's first and only nonprofit technology trade association based in Sacramento, has launched a new policy committee focused on cybersecurity. Chief Information Security Officer Vitaliy Panych and Chris Cruz, former State Deputy CIO and current Tanium SLED CIO, co-chair the committee that held its inaugural meeting this week.

Welcome aboard Jessica Ocenosak as TechCA’s new Events Manager. She joins our team with over 30 years of experience in event planning, meeting facilitation, sales & marketing, and business development & operations. She has worked for companies such as Intel Corporation, Delta Airlines, and ElevateGov.

TechCA sponsored legislation to expand the use of the Small Business/Disabled Veterans Business Enterprise (SB/DVBE) has passed out of the State Senate this week with unanimous support (ayes 37, noes 0).