IT Consolidation
Executive Overview The Office of the State Chief Information Officer (OCIO) for the State of California provides leadership for the State's information technology programs and works collaboratively with other information technology leaders throughout state government. The OCIO's role, as outlined in the Information Technology Strategic Plan, includes minimize overlap, redundancy and cost in state IT operations. Infrastructure consolidation was formed for advancing a vision for state IT operations.
Infrastructure Consolidation Program - established by Executive Order S-03-10 to improve the State IT's efficiency, effectiveness, agility, security and reliability while reducing costs and energy usage. It is expected to make the best use of scarce state technical resources in an increasingly complex computing world.
- Efficiency
- Cost Savings
- Environmental Sustainability
- Information Security
Objectives
- Provide more services for the dollars that we are spending on IT
- Change the way we're delivering services
- More Secure
- More Reliable
Consolidation Areas:
The Executive Order includes 6 mandates.
Seven Defined areas with 6 Workgroups are the foundation for the consolidation Workgroup
- E-Mail, directory, and collaboration services (pdf)
- IT facilities (pdf)
- Servers and virtualization, storage and backup (pdf)
- Networks (pdf)
- Security (pdf)
- Green IT and desktop standardization (pdf)