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“ This growth in redundant infrastructure investments is costly, inefficient and unsustainable and has a significant impact on energy consumption. ”
By Vivek Kundra
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Feds Commence Huge Data Center Consolidation
Data Center Knowledge (Mar 1 2010) Cloud Computing
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The federal government has begun what looms as the largest data center consolidation in history, hoping to dramatically reduce IT operations that are currently distributed among more than 1,100 data centers.
On Friday Federal CIO Vivek Kundra outlined details of the ambitious plan in a memo that directs federal agencies to prepare an inventory of the IT assets by April 30 and develop a preliminary data center consolidation plan by June 30. These plans will need to be finalized by Dec. 31, 2010, with implementation beginning in 2011.
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