Data Center Consolidation, 'Cloud First' Policy Part of 25-Point Plan to Reform Federal IT
In an attempt to make the federal government more nimble, cost-effective and citizen-focused, a 25-point plan to reform government IT has been introduced.
By Ainsley Jones
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Last March, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra announced a Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative with the goal of finalizing the consolidation plans by the end of this year. Yesterday, Kundra released a 25-point plan that calls for eliminating at least 800 of the government's 2,100 data centers by 2015, reports Computerworld.
This article was originally published on Dec 10, 2010
The plan reflects the introduction of a "cloud first" IT procurement policy, which will get underway in 2012, according to Information Age. In the past, Kundra has been a strong advocate for cloud computing.
