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Committee advances IT Optimization bill to centralize enterprise services and cut costs
Summary
The Technology Committee advanced Senate Bill 2653, the Mississippi IT Optimization Act, aiming to create a legal framework for ITS to pursue enterprise solutions (cloud migration and account consolidation). Chair said consolidation of Microsoft accounts and cloud migration could yield estimated savings of 10–15%.
Senate Bill 2653, the Mississippi IT Optimization Act, was advanced by the Technology Committee to create a statutory framework allowing the state ITS to pursue enterprise IT solutions more nimbly as agencies migrate to cloud services.
Chair (S1) said the measure follows prior legislation that required migration to cloud services and noted related work on…
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