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Mike Horton, the chief information officer of the DHS IG’s office, said his top priority is transitioning their current local data center to a federal cloud, and that move opens the door to other priorities, including a laptop refresh, migrating their public website to a public cloud that is more agile and extending the capabilities of their email-as-a-service.
The Office of Management and Budget’s new draft policy recognizes the data center consolidation and optimization initiative must fold in several ongoing priorities — from infrastructure and systems modernization, to cybersecurity, cloud first, and the greening of the government — to be more effective.
The 4th quarter update on Performance.gov details progress and plans for 2016.
Navy identified dozens of systems due to transition to new consolidated data centers, but are still at risk for failing to comply with DoD cyber regulations
Sonny Bhagowalia, Treasury’s chief information officer, said over the last year the department has closed 17 core data centers and reduced the time to deliver IT capabilities by more than 60 percent.
The Office of Management and Budget is prepping another memo to set new agency-specific and government goals to consolidate and optimize data centers.
Faisal Iqbal, public sector chief technology officer for Citrix, offers four steps to improving data center performance and obtain real savings.
GSA, Treasury and Transportation highlighted to House lawmakers progress each has made in improving their individual processes for managing and overseeing networks, systems and data under the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act scorecard and the governmentwide average is a “D.” Lawmakers and OMB expect agency scores to improve across the four metrics.
Sean Gallagher, the NASA Glenn Research Center chief information officer, said the OMB cyber sprint is helping his center change its perspective not only with cyber, but with cloud and mobility too.
But both services say they hope to use the recompetition of NGEN to give commercial industry more of a hand in the IT services they're providing to sailors and marines.
Pentagon's updated approach to data center consolidation will focus on new factors, including the capability of IT services, not just numerical inventory.
Joe Klimavicz, the Justice Department's chief information officer, joins Federal News Radio for a free online chat to discuss his IT priorities around shared services, data center consolidation, hiring, and improving and standardizing IT portfolio management.
Van Hitch, senior advisor with Deloitte's Federal Consulting Practice, joins host Roger Waldron to talk about some of the IT acquisition challenges facing federal managers. March 3, 2015