Lt. Col. James Bowen has reveiled the Air Forceâs desire to further assert itself helping to shape the Joint Information Environment, the Pentagonâs department-wide network interoperability plan, Federal News Radio reported Thursday.
MoreTerry Halvorsen, Navy chief information officer, spoke at a recent event in Washington, D.C., about the department’s plans to manage information technology costs by moving to cloud computing and consolidating data centers, InformationWeek
MoreA Government Accountability Office report says federal agencies have largely not developed comprehensive plans to consolidate information technology systems under the PortfolioStat initiative, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Joseph Marks writes GAO identified 200
MoreMany agencies are not using standard cost model to improve the inventory and consolidation of data centers, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. In its July 19 report, GAO said
MoreCongress has thrown a wrinkle into the federal government’s planned-consolidation of federal data centers by putting the Pentagon‘s own consolidation plans on hold. In November, the Defense Department said in a report
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A quarter of the 800 data centers planned for closure by 2015 will come from the Army, but the service’s chief information officer said the closures are not about the centers themselves,
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The federal government has recently embarked on a round of data center closures, an initiative the White House said will save agencies a combined $630 million by 2015. The Office of Management
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The federal government plans to shutter more than 40 percent of its data centers over the next four years, with 195 centers closing at the end of 2011, the NY Times reports.
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