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Feds, states reaping benefits of going green, report says
Explore Government Computer News (Apr 10 2012)
Federal IT professionals implementing energy-efficient solutions in their data centers are reporting a 1 percent or more reduction in energy costs, according to a new energy efficiency report from CDW-Government. Although budget and other barriers still exist, more federal IT managers, like their counterparts in private industry, view cloud computing as a way to make energy-efficient IT more attainable.
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DOE takes innovative approach to data center consolidation
Explore Government Computer News (Aug 8 2011)
The Energy Department has forged a partnership with Lockheed Martin to increase energy efficiency through data center consolidation and IT enhancements.
The partnership is the first use of a federal Energy Savings Performance Contract to reach sustainability goals through improved IT practices, DOE and Lockheed Martin officials said. ESPC contracts let agencies embark on energy-savings projects without upfront capital costs and without special congressional appropriations.
DOE will focus on projects for the agency’s headquarters, IT infrastructures and the Continuity of Operations facility in Albuquerque, N.M., said Jake Wooley, manager of IT Sustainability Programs within Energy’s Office of the CIO.
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DOE contract could enable data-center consolidation
Explore Government Computer News (Oct 26 2010)
How should agencies fund data-center consolidation initiatives?
Try using the Department of Energy’s Energy Savings Performance Contracts, said Doug Bourgeois, vice president and chief cloud executive with VMware, speaking at a cloud computing conference today. The contracts let agencies embark on energy-savings projects without upfront capital costs and without special Congressional appropriations. An ESPC is a partnership between the federal agency and an energy-service provider company.
Bourgeois was speaking at the Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Green IT conference held in Washington, D.C., by 1105 Government Information Group.
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Mentions: Department of Energy Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative
Data centers shuffle off to Buffalo
Explore Government Computer News (Oct 4 2010)
Buffalo, N.Y., is becoming one of the hot locations for data centers, partly because of the low cost of hydroelectric power from nearby Niagara Falls.
Jim Duffy in Network World reports that Yahoo recently opened a green data center in nearby Lockport and cites a Business First of Buffalo report that Verizon is considering a new data center in Niagara County.
In addition into relatively cheap power, the Buffalo area also has cool temperatures, which brings down power costs, and tends to be free of earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters, according to Network World.
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Data center consolidation improves cross-agency cooperation
Explore Government Computer News (Jun 16 2010)
The government’s data center consolidation effort is emerging as an enabler of information sharing between agencies, a panel of intelligence and security officials said Tuesday.
The Homeland Security Department began five years ago the task of folding 24 data centers into two, said Deputy Chief Information Officer Margaret Graves. The two recently went into operation. “We also are availing ourselves of the opportunity to modernize,” and to make data accessible across the enterprise and not just to the system or information owner, Graves said.
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Nations agree to global data center metrics
Explore Government Computer News (Apr 15 2010)
Nations agree to global data center metricsGCN.comPUE is a measurement of the total energy of the data center divided by the information technology energy consumption. “The ultimate goal is to create a set ... (Read Full Article)
Mentions: The Green Grid Energy Department IBM
3 Ways To Make Virtualization Work
Explore Government Computer News (Feb 11 2010)
Server virtualization is in full swing at many federal agencies, some of which are gearing up to implement desktop and client virtualization pilot projects. Los Alamos lab takes the next virtual step, toward infrastructure as a service Pa. attorney general's office make a case for virtual desktops But are agencies getting the most out of their virtualization investment? Seventy-three percent of the 377 federal information technology managers who participated in a CDW Government survey conducted in April 2009 said virtualization is an integral component of information technology efficiency and improving costs. (Read Full Article)
DOE uses cloud computing for science, CIO says
Explore Government Computer News (Dec 11 2009)
The Energy Department gets cost savings by performing some of its scientific computations with cloud computing technologies, DOE Chief Information Officer Tom Pyke said today.
The department’s national laboratories are getting surprising efficiencies by using high-performance connectivity to use with cloud computing platforms offered by Amazon, Google and Microsoft, Pyke said at a breakfast meeting sponsored by the market research firm Input Inc.
“The scientific computations are being done in the cloud, and you would not expect that,” Pyke said. “They can be done well and less expensively in the cloud.”
Cloud computing typically refers to information technology applications, computer power, storage and other services that are available over the Internet. It allows the end user to avoid owning IT infrastructure, including software, and to use software as a service.
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Arra, Modernization Drive Greater Energy Efficiency
Explore Government Computer News (Nov 10 2009)
A heightened awareness of IT power consumption costs, the increasing use of high performance, high-density computing technologies and the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are propelling government IT organizations toward greater energy conservation.
And it’s a good thing too, as one market research firm has estimated the U.S. government wastes $1 billion annually on poor desktop power management practices. According to research conducted by Steve Brasen, a principal analyst for Enterprise Management Associates, Inc., in Boulder, Colo., IT practices performed by government agencies (local, state and federal) have notoriously been the most wasteful of any industry demographic group. In the EMA research report entitled, The True Value of Green IT, the average weekly power consumption of desktop workstations used by government organizations is 46.31 kilowatt hours (KwH). “This was determined by calculating desktop utilization practices, including how often systems are left operational and how ...
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Mentions: Apple Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Department of Energy
Achieving Federal Data Center Modernization
Explore Government Computer News (Nov 10 2009)
Government organizations must overcome hefty challenges to meet evolving IT mission goals in 2009 as the impact of the ongoing economic crisis, along with wars overseas and an extensive economic stimulus program are complicating their efforts to modernize, consolidate and transform data center operations.
For instance, while a general rule for data center hardware has typically been three to five years between upgrade and/or replacement, in the current economic climate, government IT organizations are extending life cycles and leveraging legacy systems to squeeze more from existing IT assets, particularly servers, storage, and power equipment.
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Spotlight on Arra: A Stimulus Update
Explore Government Computer News (Nov 1 2009)
The IDC Industry Insights report identified the early leaders among government technology initiatives, including:
*Social Security Administration’s (SSA) National Computer Center data center modernization – $500 million.
*SSA’s claims processing program – $490 million.
*Department of Homeland Security data center, law enforcement communications – $340 million.
*State Department’s security and network assurance technologies – $290 million.
*Institute of Education Science’s high-performance computing and predictive services – $250 million.
*Veterans Affairs Department data center and IT services – $50 million.
*Agriculture Department’s Farm Services Agency data center and systems services – $50 million.
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Sandia supercomputer boots a million virtual machines
Explore Government Computer News (Aug 6 2009)
Computer scientists at the Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories have simultaneously booted one million Linux kernels, all of which ran as virtual machines on the labs' Thunderbird supercomputer. The researchers, Ron Minnich and Don Rudish, hope to use their million virtual-machine network to better understand how botnets operate.
A million virtual machine is the largest number that has ever been spun up on a single system, to the best of the researchers' knowledge. Previously, they were only able to boot 20,000 virtual instances at once.
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Mentions: Energy Department IBM
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