Data center consolidation

Army CIO Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford said moving to a hybrid cloud is part of how the service is reducing data centers and making data accessible.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittees on IT and Government Operations wants to see more agency behaviors change because of FITARA.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is more than halfway done with its migration to the cloud, more than a year after kicking off the effort.

OMB released a new draft data center policy where cost savings is taking a back seat to optimization and operational realities.

An update to the Office of Management and Budget’s guidance on its Data Center Optimization Initiative will include more back-and-forth between agencies and the administration on fair benchmarks.

The Department of Homeland Security cites the Office of Management and Budget’s new Cloud Smart strategy and an ongoing challenge to consolidate data centers as part of a larger rethinking around how it stores its data. 

Through the Centers of Excellence (CoE) initiative with the Agriculture Department and the move to Technology Business Management (TBM) standards, OMB is setting better goals for data centers.

David Powner left the Government Accountability Office in early August after spending 16 years overseeing federal technology management issues.

A May 7 memo from the Defense Department’s chief information officers gives “fourth estate” agencies until 2020 to migrate applications from more than 100 data centers.

The Pentagon’s chief information officer’s office spearheaded the development of the ITSA tool as part of its data center consolidation effort.