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- Downtrends in City Tech

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

These include budgets, staffing of IT units, disaster recovery, “big” projects, travel and training. Last Friday I presented the budget of my department – the Department of Information Technology at the City of Seattle, to the Seattle City Council.

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- Tech Nightmares Frighten a CIO

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

The City of Seattle has multiple data centers, but our main one, constructed in 2001, has well over $15 million of stuff in it. I guess it’s time to test that disaster recovery plan again! Halloween seems like a perfect time to confront a few of our most frightful fears, and here are a few of mine. Or Fire followed by Water.