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OMB Thinks Green on Data Center Consolidation
Explore Executive Gov (Dec 1 2010) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers
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.
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Comment Mentions: Office of Management and Budget Vivek Kundra Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative







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