Ig: Irs wasting money at data centers

federaltimes.com (Jun 7 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

1. As much as one-third of the energy consumed in the IRS' data centers is wasted because industry best practices aren't being followed, the Treasury Department's inspector general says in a new report. The energy savings at just two enterprise computing centers the IG reviewed could total $3.2 million over four years, the IG said in the report released Monday. The actual savings could be much larger if IRS took similar measures at data centers located at the agency's nine other campuses, the IG said. "Not fully implementing applicable best practices or other data center improvements affects the IRS's ability to minimize energy consumption and costs, resulting in the inefficient use of resources and taxpayer funds not being most effectively used," the IG said. (Read Full Article)

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