Closing data centers easier said than done?

Bob Otto, executive vice president of Agilex Technologies, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to talk about the ongoing effort to shutter federal data centers. H...

The Obama Administration has a lofty IT goal: Close roughly 400 data centers in 18 months. Those closures would save at least $3 billion, the administration has said and the effort is already running ahead of schedule. But closing and consolidating them is easier said than done.

Bob Otto, the former chief information officer of the United States Postal Service and now executive vice president at Agilex Techologies, obviously has some insight into federal IT. He discussed the administration’s ambitious goals and told In Depth with Francis Rose if closing data centers is really as easy as it sounds.

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