CIO: State (Hawaii) Computers Slow Because Employees Watching Hulu, Netflix all Day

CB: ...Employees have been streaming so much media through state-assigned computers during work hours that Hawaii’s state government has blocked services like NetFlix and Hulu.

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Todd Nacapuy, the chief information officer, issued a memo Tuesday to CIOs and IT staff for the executive, legislative and judicial branches, stating that the excessive streaming was “monopolizing a significant portion” of the state’s available bandwidth. “The state has finite IT resources, and increasing these resources requires an investment, said Nacapuy, who added that using bandwidth for non-state purposes “affects our collective performance” of state business.... More...

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