By ChrisScott Consolidating data centers has always made sense. Having the data securely tucked away into well-managed data centers has got to improve performance and even cyber security. It will also require fewer of those really smart, well-trained (expensive) system administrators to keep thing...
By Bob Gourley In this podcast we provide context on several upcoming technology events in the DC area and dive deep into the technology news impacting federal enterprise technologists. We also provide an admin note in response to your inputs. Our goals with this podcast series is to provide context...
Cisco and IDG have sponsored this post and asked that we spread the word on this event which should be of interest to anyone in the enterprise IT business. Cisco is one of the firms we should all track closely and this is a great opportunity to learn the full array of their solutions for […...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: An anonymous official confirmed that United States and Israel jointly developed the Flame spying malware. More here. The Veterans Affairs Department would need a staff of 4,000 to scan and digitize its backlogged paper rec...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: President Obama ordered to accelerate a campaign of cyberattacks against started by President Bush and code-named Olympic Games including the U.S. and Israeli developed Stuxnet. More here. The Department of Energy missed 50...
About two years ago, the federal government set in motion an ambitious and broad initiative to dramatically reduce IT operations. The goal: slow the sprawl of the government data center footprint. Well, current federal CIO Steven VanRoekel says the plan is exceeding original plans and targets. In th...
Army officials met Dec. 13 for the first in a series of meetings on its strategy to more aggressively consolidate data centers. Not only does the Army claim 200, or 25 percent, of the 800 federal data centers the Office of Management and Budget identified as eligible for consolidation by fiscal 2015...
The government is moving forward with a massive data center consolidation initiative that will slash the number of federal data centers by 40% from more than 2,000 to about 1,200 by 2015, according to Lisa Schlosser, deputy administrator of the Office of Management and Budget’s office of e-gov...