White House Names a New Chief of Information Technology

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... from Microsoft in 2009 as managing director of the Federal Communications Commission, will succeed Vivek Kundra, the White House plans to announce on Thursday. The federal government spends about $80 billion a ......rend of productivity growth in the private sector, said Jeffrey D. Zients, a deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, has been about 1.5 percent a year. Yet productivity growth in the federal government, he ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Barack Obama   Harvard   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......ctual data centers that will be more difficult to move. Then there’s the resignation of Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, who has been a champion of cloud computing and has been ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Juniper Networks   Office of Management and Budget

Federal Agencies Given Until October to Detail Data Center Consolidation

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...e latest update in the ongoing initiative to consolidate government-wide  data centers, federal CIO Vivek Kundra has implemented a new set of deadlines for federal agencies in which they must outline their consol... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Office of Management and Budget   Vivek Kundra   General Services Administration

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......llars by cutting costs for infrastructure, real estate and energy," US chief information officer Vivek Kundra said in a statement. "At the same time, it will improve ... (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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...nters this year, and expects to close 98 more by the end of 2011, federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said in an update on the government's data center consolidation and cloud computing strategy. The U......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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

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... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Office of Management and Budget   Vivek Kundra   Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative

Feds Discover 1,000 More Data Centers

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...stration as it seeks to streamline the government’s IT infrastructure. For months, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has cited the existence of 1,100 federal data centers as evidence of government waste and inefficie......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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

Gov 2.0 Week in Review - Closing the IT gap, looking back at PDF, considering cloud computing and looking ahead to DC ...

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...bout with Gov 2.0 Events," tweeted Tim O'Reilly earlier this week. Peter R. Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, spoke at length at the Center for American Progress on a "significant IT gap" that has developed b......0 Personal Democracy Forum and Twitter in government, after the jump. If you missed it, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra delivered a keynote at the Cloud Computing Forum and ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Amazon.com   Carol Browner