NASA Shifts Data Center Strategy

InformationWeek (Mar 9 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

1. NASA, which had been planning to build a new enterprise data center estimated to cost $1.5 billion, has done an abrupt about-face, announcing late last month that it was planning major changes to its data center strategy. In an announcement posted on the site of NASA's long-term, multi-billion dollar IT transformation project, the Information Technology Infrastructure Integration Program (I3P), NASA said that it was postponing the release of a long-awaited request for proposal for the new data center in light of new White House policies and leadership changes at NASA. "NASA intends to create a data center consolidation plan to incorporate all data centers, systems and applications," the announcement said. (Read Full Article)

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