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  3. About Department of Homeland Security

    The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), commonly known in the United States as "Homeland Security", is a Cabinet department of the federal government of the United States with the responsibility of protecting the territory of the United States from terrorist attacks and responding to natural disasters.

    Whereas the Department of Defense is charged with military actions abroad, the Department of Homeland Security works in the civilian sphere to protect the United States within, at, and outside its borders. Its goal is to prepare for, prevent, and respond to domestic emergencies, particularly terrorism. On March 1, 2003, the DHS absorbed the now defunct United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, and assumed its duties.

    With over 200,000 employees, DHS is the third largest cabinet department in the U.S. federal government, after the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs. Homeland security policy is coordinated at the White House by the Homeland Security Council, with Frances Townsend as the Homeland Security Advisor. Other agencies with significant homeland security responsibilities include the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Energy.

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    2. Federal Data Center Consolidation: By The Numbers

      Explore InformationWeek (Nov 16 2011) Cloud Computing

      Federal Data Center Consolidation: By The Numbers ...ction. Appropriators in both the House of Representatives and Senate, for example, have slashed the Department of Homeland Security's fiscal 2012 budget for data center consolidation, though the final dollar value remains unsettled... (Read Full Article)

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

    3. green opportunities in u.s.a. data center closings - by Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 21 2011)

      green opportunities in u.s.a. data center closings - by Doug Mohney ...?   And the U.S. government data center space comes in all shapes and sizes, too, ranging from a Department of Homeland Security facility in Alabama covering 195,000 square feet to smaller sized lots less than 1,000 square feet ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   New York Times   The New York Times   Department of Homeland Security

    4. Feds Target 292 More Data Centers for Closure

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 21 2011) Cloud Computing

      Feds Target 292 More Data Centers for Closure The federal government has has identified an additional 292 data centers that it will close over the next 18 months as it continues its data center consolidation. They include four Department of Agriculture data centers in the same zip code, each of which is less than 1,000 square feet. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Department of Homeland Security   Department of Agriculture   CIO Vivek Kundra

    5. U.S. to Close 800 Computer Data Centers

      Explore The New York Times (Jul 20 2011) Cloud Computing

      U.S. to Close 800 Computer Data Centers ...200 residential homes. The data centers to be shut down are varied in size. One facility run by the Department of Homeland Security in Alabama covers 195,000 square feet, the size of more than three football fields. But some of the... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Brookings Institution   Department of Homeland Security   Vivek Kundra

    6. Bits: One on One: Vivek Kundra, U.S. Chief Information Officer

      Explore Technology (Nov 5 2010) Cloud Computing

      Bits: One on One: Vivek Kundra, U.S. Chief Information Officer ...reports to actually fix the problems. What are red teams and blue teams? The red teams work for the Department of Homeland Security, and they are essentially hackers going after our own systems, trying to find vulnerabilitie... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Barack Obama   Department of Homeland Security

    7. Federal Data Center Consolidation a Virtually Impossible Task

      Explore eweek.com (Jul 6 2010) Cloud Computing

      Federal Data Center Consolidation a Virtually Impossible Task ...dards, meaning a security clearance for the Department of Defense isn’t directly usable by say, the Department of Homeland Security. Likewise, the security standards for data centers are different. But even that isn’t the biggest p... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Department of Homeland Security   Department of Defense

    8. Orange you glad you learned about this security system? By Paula Bernier

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 26 2010)

      Orange you glad you learned about this security system? By Paula Bernier If the virtualization space followed the Department of Homeland Security’s color-coded scheme, it would probably be within the yellow range at best. Maybe even in the orang... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Department of Homeland Security   Gartner Inc.

    9. NSA Going Green with $1.6 Billion Utah Data Center by Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 25 2009) Construction

      NSA Going Green with $1.6 Billion Utah Data Center by Doug Mohney ...ats, cybersecurity support to defense and civilian agency networks, and technical assistance to the Department of Homeland Security. Being built at Camp William, a National Guard training center 26 miles south of Salt Lake City... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Department of Homeland Security   Doug Mohney   LEED

    10. NSA To Build $1.5 Billion Cybersecurity Data Center

      Explore InformationWeek (Oct 30 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

      NSA To Build $1.5 Billion Cybersecurity Data Center ...ats, cybersecurity support to defense and civilian agency networks, and technical assistance to the Department of Homeland Security, according to a transcript of remarks by Glenn Gaffney, deputy director of national intelligence fo... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Department of Homeland Security   LEED   NBC

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