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US Government Begins Largest IT Consolidation in History

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the wtb-bofh dept.

miller60 writes "Saying 1,100 data centers is too many, the federal government has begun what looms as the largest IT consolidation in history. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has directed federal agencies to inventory their assets by April 30 and prepare a plan to reduce the number of servers and data centers, with a focus on slashing energy costs (full memo). Kundra says some applications may be shifted to cloud computing platforms customized for government use."

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  1. Dear Contractors... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dinner is served! Please approach the money trough in an orderly line...

    1. Re:Dear Contractors... by wealthychef · · Score: 5, Funny

      I for one have full confidence in the government that after reorganizing their data centers, they will have a lean, optimized, efficient operation. Who's with me?

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    2. Re:Dear Contractors... by BitHive · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sure, as long as they bring in the free market to do it. Nothing gets a job done on time and under cost like unfettered free enterprise and rugged individualism.

  2. Bout time by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 3, Funny

    See, the last time we upgraded we put everything on eleven hundred windows 95 machines with 1 gig hard drives. That did pretty good for a spell, all things considered. Now we're thinking about one of them pointy computers... whaddya call em? Blade servers? Yeah, we hear good things about those.

  3. Re:... if you can spell "Cloud Computing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Clud Crumpooting

  4. Consolidate by halcyon1234 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Every business I've ever worked for has had that one dusty 8086 off in a corner. It would run a single batch file every few hours. No one would touch it, because no one knew what it did-- just that whatever it did do was mission critical.

    Thus, the US government should just consolidate everything down to a single batch program run by a 8086. I'm sure there's a spare closet in the White House or something they can use as a server room.

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  5. Re:... if you can spell "Cloud Computing" by dkleinsc · · Score: 3, Funny

    It depends entirely on the political clout of your congressional representation.

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  6. Re:... if you can spell "Cloud Computing" by cayenne8 · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Why? It doesn't seem to have been a job qualification to be able to spell or pronounce "nookuler"

    Nor to know how to pronounce corpsman (hint:not corpse-man)

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