IT Management Slideshow: CIOs Pick a ?Top Ten? Tech List for 2011

1. Consolidation/Optimization

State CIOs seek to cut costs and increase efficiencies by centralizing infrastructure, data centers.

2. Budget/Cost Control

They're looking for new strategies for IT savings via activity-based costing and other methods.

3. Health Care

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and other developments have triggered the need for improved health-information exchange, Medicaid systems and an overhaul of existing health-enterprise architectures.

4. Cloud Computing

State CIOs view the cloud as a service-delivery strategy. They're interested in what cloud models out there serve their requirements, and which will provide needed security, privacy and data-ownership.

5. Shared Services

This includes shared infrastructure and resources, in addition to services.

6. Governance

Increased accountability means more oversight on data-governance issues.

7. Security

Always critical, state CIOs are now interested in risk assessments to thwart insider threats and third-party security situations that could emerge as outsourcing increases.

8. Broadband and Connectivity

Telehealth and the need for public-safety wireless networks are inspiring interest in improving connections.

9. Legacy Modernization

Either by replacing or renovating, legacy platforms and apps must be enhanced for overall business-process improvement.

10. Data and Information Management

Data/information intelligence systems will bring state government into the knowledge-management business.