Data center consolidation
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Terry Halvorsen left DoD at the end of February after spending the last two-plus years as its chief information officer.
March 02, 2017 -
Tim Solms, the vice president for U.S. federal and managing director worldwide government at Juniper Networks, makes the case for how software-defined networking and automation can help the Pentagon develop an open, agile and elastic infrastructure to meet its mission needs.
February 27, 2017 -
The Government Accountability Office had some hard truths for the Veterans Affairs Department, which has failed to produce more modern, interoperable IT systems after years of failed pilots and heated congressional hearings. GAO says VA should drop its plans to modernize VistA and find a commercial option instead.
February 07, 2017 -
Sources confirmed CIOs from State, DHS, EPA and OPM and the CTO from VA talked a variety of issues with the Trump transition team toward the end of Obama administration.
January 30, 2017 -
Before leaving the Obama administration, Tony Scott, the federal CIO, released a report for the next administration to better understand the past, current and potential future of technology in agencies.
January 23, 2017 -
Terry Halvorsen, who has been the Defense Department’s chief information officer since the summer of 2014, said Wednesday that he will retire from government service on Feb. 28, but that the department's current IT policies and priorities are unlikely to undergo significant changes during the transition to a new administration.
January 12, 2017 -
Lt. Gen. Bob Ferrell, the Army’s chief information officer/G6, said there are several parallel initiatives like data center consolidation and network consolidation to reach the end goal of having a modernized IT infrastructure and end-user services.
December 16, 2016 -
The Defense Department's $38.5 billion IT budget in the fiscal 2017 requests is being driven by three major trends contractors should be aware of: cybersecurity, cloud and analytics.
November 24, 2016 -
Some federal IT managers say there are simply too many tools in the playing field and not enough governmentwide guidance to implement them quickly and easily.
October 24, 2016 -
Important lessons are being learned as the government takes tentative steps toward the cloud computing environment.
September 14, 2016 -
George Holland, the vice president of federal strategy and business development for Juniper Networks, says virtualization and the cloud give agencies opportunities to do more with less.
September 07, 2016 -
The Defense Department on Thursday rolled out a new outline of its IT modernization priorities, calling it a “living document” whose goals include better cooperation with industry.
August 19, 2016 -
During the first few years of the federal government’s effort to shut down expensive and underutilized data centers, the Army chalked up some early wins: more than 400 have been closed since 2010. But progress has slowed significantly in the last two years, so top officials are about to get a lot more prescriptive.
August 12, 2016 -
DoD Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen said he plans to phase out the secure identity card over the next two years and replace it with better multi-factor authentication.
June 15, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management posted a job announcement June 1 for a new chief information officer.
June 01, 2016