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State CIO presents data center, enterprise IT services and data‑sharing progress to committee
Summary
The state CIO’s continuation of an earlier overview described the State Data Center’s expansion, managed-service rates below peer averages, cybersecurity enterprise capabilities, and a new statewide data‑sharing memorandum of understanding piloted by three agencies.
Terrence Woods, Oregon’s State Chief Information Officer, and agency leads briefed the Joint Legislative Committee on Information Management and Technology on the state’s data center operations, enterprise information services (EIS) programs, cybersecurity services and new data-governance work.
James Foster, director of the State Data Center, said the facility — built in 2006 and later expanded — now supports 85 agencies, boards and commissions and provides colocation, managed computing, backup, enterprise storage, network and cloud-brokering services. He described the data center’s raised floor area, temperature and humidity controls, and a 2021 power-and-cooling expansion that enabled new colocation services and improved resiliency.
CIO Woods and Foster told the committee that shared, centralized services remain price-competitive compared with peer states. Foster cited a recent vendor study that found data center operating costs approximately…
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