Newly approved legislation in Mississippi would create the state's first security operations center. Other bills signed by the governor are expected to reduce duplicative services and enable…

On the Priorities podcast, Nebraska CIO Ed Toner says he’s made high availability of services his top priority.

California's recycling agency is looking to replace more than three dozen applications with a single platform.

The CIO of Connecticut said a process uniting IT governance has moved incrementally because "large changes scare people."

Legislation to advance IT consolidation and the state's use of data could mean a big leap for IT in Hawaii as the governor's term winds down.

Officials said an IT asset and service request tracking system was "invaluable" during a major consolidation effort completed in 2019.

Gov. Ned Lamont ordered the centralization of IT staff from about 40 agencies into a single statewide organization.

The CIOs of Minnesota and Tennessee both said their organizational structures aided their pandemic response efforts, but budget cuts could stall progress.

"We should’ve done more to do a cultural analysis," Stephanie Dedmon said of merging IT workers from 23 different agencies into a unified organization.

Consolidating IT functions was already saving the states tens of millions of dollars, but CIO Ed Toner said the project's true value was revealed when the pandemic…