Arkansas CTO Yessica Jones sees benefit of interstate cooperation

In Arkansas, state Chief Technology Officer Yessica Jones is spearheading a statewide data center consolidation effort with a unique cross state strategy between her state and Oklahoma. Her main goal is to centralize IT infrastructure into one of our data centers and utilize a collocation plan. She described this in more detail to host John Thomas Flynn on Ask the CIO: SLED Edition, and also discussed how a government reorganization last year reduced the cabinet to 15 departments, making Jones’ department the Division of Information Services reporting to the Department of Transformation and Shared Services.