Federal Data Center Consolidation: By The Numbers

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...om more than 2,000 to about 1,200 by 2015, according to Lisa Schlosser, deputy administrator of the Office of Management and Budget's office of e-government and IT. The government says it's ahead of its initial schedule, and plans......cies, the Army has already rid itself of 30,000 square feet of data center space. More broadly, the Department of Defense earlier this year announced plans to ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Department of Homeland Security   Department of Energy   Office of Management and Budget

Why shutting down 800 federal data centers won’t be easy

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... federal agencies have until Oct. 7 to present their plans for slashing data center footprints. The Office of Management and Budget has mandated that by 2015, the government must reduce its current stable of roughly 2,094 data cent......y, operate and provision IT resources. Already, at least two major federal IT hotbeds, NASA and the Department of Defense, have deployed their own cloud infrastructures to standardize the development and ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Juniper Networks   Office of Management and Budget

US Government Names 114 Data Centers to Close by End of Year

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...ion's Campaign to Cut Waste, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge. A list released by the Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday identified 114 facilities to close between now and the end of the year, and 178 data c......umber of federal data centers increased from 432 to more than 2,000. Data Center Knowledge says the Department of Defense is closing 114 data centers by ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Office of Management and Budget   Vivek Kundra   Data Center Knowledge

Feds Will Shutter 137 Data Centers in 2011

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...plementation plan also calls for the details of the consolidation to be shared with the public. The Office of Management and Budget “will launch a publicly available dashboard to serve as a window into progress of the data center c......are foot data center contained 218 racks of gear, and had an annual power bill of $1.2 million. The Department of Defense will be the busiest consolidator for the ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Office of Management and Budget   Vivek Kundra   Department of Agriculture

Feds Discover 1,000 More Data Centers

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...gencies have the most data centers? Not surprisingly, those with the most distributed operations: + Department of Defense (772) + State Department (361) + Department of the Interior (210) + Health and Human Services (185)......he plans and budgets submitted by federal agencies are being reviewed by the administration and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), with a goal of approving final plans by Dec. 31. The process got underway back in March ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Uptime Institute   Office of Management and Budget   Vivek Kundra

Uncle Sam wants green data centers - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Oct 28 2009) Emissions , Servers

...rvers based upon an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated generated on 2006 data. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is now in the process of collecting updated statistics from all agencies, including details o......it is unlikely we'll see the Department of Health and Human Services sharing a data center with the Department of Defense or Treasury.  In some cases, agencies may move to outsource some times of ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Barack Obama   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy