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DoD needs to consolidate data centers to become more efficient
A Congressional Research Service report found DoD accounts for 63 percent of energy consumption in the U.S. The White House's move to consolidate data centers could save at least $3 billion by 2015.
Tags: OMB , technology , management , data center consolidation , cloud computing , DoD , GAO , Federation of American Scientists , Taeja Smith
Navy takes aim at software, server spending
The Navy has set initial target dates to plan for a more efficient IT infrastructure, including data center consolidation, virtualization and enterprise software licensing. As a first step, the service says it needs to get a better handle on how many software licenses it actually owns.
Tags: technology , Navy , DoD , data center consolidation , cloud computing , DoD budget , Janice Haith , David Dorsett , Jared Serbu , DoD Report , Federal Drive
Navy halts data center expansions
The Navy's top IT official ordered the entire service not to spend any money for new or upgraded servers and data centers. This comes as the service prepares to release its enterprise data center consolidation strategy in March.
Tags: DoD , technology , Navy , data center consolidation , cloud computing , SOA , Jared Serbu
NASA discusses challenges of data center consolidation
It's been more than nine months since the
Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative
began with the intent to reduce energy
usage, lower IT costs and improve security.
And some federal agencies are discovering
that it's difficult to reduce spending
without putting some money upfront first.
NASA is just one of the federal agencies
trying to [...]
Tags: OMB , Chris Kemp , NASA , cloud computing , technology , Federal Cloud Blog , IT , IT infrastructure
