States Move Toward the Center on IT -- Finally

Some states are moving to consolidate and better integrate their systems is to comply with new electronic-discovery legislation. For instance, the sate of Washington is deploying a unified e-mail archiving system from Symantec Corp. and later this year plans to seek bids on tools for searching the archives, said Gary Robinson, the state’s CIO. Robinson led the preparation of an “impact statement” on e-discovery that the NASCIO released last week.