OMB Thinks Green on Data Center Consolidation

Executive Gov (Dec 1 2010) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has long promoted the Office of Management and Budget’s efforts to shutter government data centers in a push to save costs and prepare the foundation for federal cloud-computing platforms. But a new partnership between OMB and the Council on Environmental Quality now means one of the top White House tech priorities is both saving and thinking green. In a memo released last week, Kundra and CEQ chair Nancy Sutley described the particulars of the new partnership, which further extends the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative to reduce data centers. (Read Full Article)

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