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Published on: August 26, 2009
Type of content: CASE STUDY
Format: Unknown
Length: 3 pages
Price: FREE

Overview:
As with many state governments these days, the State of New York has been experiencing a budget shortfall and needed to find ways to cut costs while still ensuring the utmost protection of their critical assets. With 19 million New York citizens to support, the State's Chief Information Officer/Office for Technology (CIO/OFT) ensures that the New York state executive branch’s 106 departments--including the departments of transportation, children and family services, and labor, and offices of the governor and homeland security--operate seamlessly to provide services to these citizens. The job of the State's technology agency is to protect the infrastructure for each of the departments and their combined 250,000 servers, PCs, and laptops. In addition, the CIO/OFT is responsible for overseeing the advancement of technology to improve government efficiency and effectiveness. This is no small task, especially now, as this big responsibility is compounded by the requirement to ensure greater cost efficiency.