The Office of Management and Budget has introduced a three-year program that aims to require federal agencies to develop and execute strategies that seek to reduce the footprint of data centers and build up the
MoreThe U.S. Army plans to introduce a pilot program in September at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama in an effort to migrate the service branchâs data to a hybrid cloud environment, the Army
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Jack Wilmer, a Defense Information Systems Agency official, has said DISA needs to field tools designed to defend Defense Department applications from potential security vulnerabilities in commercial cloud environments. Wilmer, vice director of the
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Terry Halvorsen, chief information officer at the Defense Department, has said DoDâs efforts to update its information networks will focus on the deployment of the Joint Regional Security Stacks, DoD News reported Monday. Cheryl
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Defense Department Chief Information Offier Terry Halvorsen has said the military and DoD agencies all believe they can meet a January 2017 deadline to transition the Pentagonâs entire network to Windows 10, Fedscoop reported
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A study by MeriTalk has found that 60 percent of federal information technology managers believe their agencies could save 20 percent of  their IT budget through data center modernization — amounting to savings
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The Department of Homeland Security‘s Office of Inspector General looks to migrate its local data center infrastructure to a federal cloud computing platform as part of an information technology modernization initiative, Federal
MoreThe House of Representatives has approved by voice vote Rep. Anna Eshoo’s proposed legislation that seeks to boost federal data center efficiency. Eshoo, the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce
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The Government Accountability Office has called on 10 agencies to establish their planned cost savings goals through data center closures and urged 22 agencies to boost performance in data center optimization. Those
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Bob Fortna, vice president of federal defense sector at Juniper Networks, has prescribed five practices he says are necessary to build the data center of the future. Fortna wrote in an opinion
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