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US Gov't To Close 137 Data Centers In 2011, More By 2015
1sockchuck writes "The US government has closed 39 data centers this year, and expects to shut down 98 more by the end of 2011, federal CIO Vivek Kundra said Wednesday. The 137 closures are a step towards the long-term goal of consolidating 800 of the government's 2,094 data centers by 2015. Government agencies have identified 100 email systems and 950,000 mailboxes to migrate to a cloud computing model as part of Kundra's 'Cloud First' initiative."
Put all your eggs in one basket -- what could possibly go wrong?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
For a moment, I thought they were closing 1337 data centers.
You save only 59 seconds over 8 miles by going 75 instead of 65. Do you really have to pass that guy? Do the Math!
Technocracy: centralisation of government data with easy cross-referencing is harmless.
False premise: clouds increase reliability.
Maxim: one big basket comfortably holds all eggs.
Actual purpose of this exercise: corporate welfare for systems providers.
Google have ones needing a hydro-electric plant to power.
Our it team call the locked cabinet downstairs as another
what happens to these servers after they go offline? Are they for sale anywhere?
Congradulations on replacing old data centers with other more centralised data centers..errr "clouds".
Next decade They'll replaced them with "Heaven's" computing.
Well some bank accounts will be close to that, only that now its branded as "Safe Heaven's" accounting, but they'll just call it Safe Heaven's computing or some sort of new but vague generic buzzword.
...because the latest in Virginia's IT outsourcing saga is that the State Police are having severe access problems to servers hosted by NG.
Outsourcing to these guys has been a disaster for the Commonwealth. And it happened on Vivek Kundra's watch.
No worries, I'm sure Northrop Grumman will bid on the contract to fix it.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
People are always inclined to choose one solution over another when reality is always about balance or the right mix - too much centralisation, then the risk increases, too little, it's chaos. At present I think the government systems are just too many to be efficient and effective and reducing them through the cloud is a good choice.
I guess it's a bad time to be a Fed IT System Admin/Engineer/Manager/Director
Next Kundra will outsource Federal IT Support.
I think NOT.
http://community.dice.com/t5/Current-Events/US-CIO-Vivek-Kundra-at-best-a-lightweight-at-worst-a-fraud/td-p/216786
he's also not to be trusted.
http://gawker.com/#!5174642/obamas-thieving-geek-guilty-of-bad-taste
Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT THAT IS BEING SOLD.
Redundant SAN setup with replicated offsite storage , redundant paths and really big memory caches. Mongo cache starts having errors but looks like it's working (maybe because of error correction?). Later the backup cache starts having errors but the system appears to still be running. (Supposedly no one had ever see two controllers go bad) Some time later they decide to fail over to the backup site. Turns out the controllers were replicating corrupted data to the offsite storage. Bam! Bad luck and bad decisions can wipe out any fail safe.
Look, plain and simple, the placing anything into the cloud is the same thing as outsourcing.
If you could not convince anyone to buy into outsourcing let me try and BS you and tell you about this grand vision called the cloud. The MBA eat that up and are being brain washed in MBA school about the next generation of outsourcing. First we outsourced all our service centers, etc (and we see how that worked out) and now we are "outsourcing" our IT functions.....WOOT! Btw, when you put your functions in the cloud, where will your job be afterwards?
This is not about protecting one’s own interests, just the hoodwink that is being pulled on many folks. Cloud computing is a marketing scam! Hosted Services providers also known as ASP or Application Service Providers have existed for a long time before the cloud. the ASP services have just evolved and now has a new name. Call a spade a spade.
I once worked as a contractor at a government agency. One day, one of my government handlers took me to the storage are in one of the basements of the facility where we worked. I saw pallet after pallet, box after box, of white CRT monitors, white keyboards, white mice and white desktop speakers. I asked for an explanation. He told me that the CPU's and the peripherals were ordered by two different people. The CPU's that were ordered were black. By the time the mistake was discovered, everything had been paid for and delivered. In addition, during the long procurement process, the general computing public had already transitioned from CRT to LCD monitors. The white peripherals went to the basement; newer black peripherals, including LCD monitors, were then purchased.
There is a classic dystopian movie from 1975 named "Rollerball". A couple of the scenes involve a futuristic library and a computer that holds all knowledge, except for the missing bits. We're on the way!
...right after I got hired at the local DoD datacenter.
Sure you can shut them down or rent the spaces out to businesses or cities. Visualized computing and cloud are great. But it's inefficient to get rid of the infrastructure when you'll just need it again in 10 or 20 later. Computer server rooms require a major investment as far as power installation, air conditioning, false floors and conduits for wiring. Imagine if they bulldozed the pentagon every time between official wars just to rebuild it.
The one thing we know for sure is that technology will always require infrastructure. Build it, build it to last, build it so it once it's built it doesn't require much maintenance or cost except for a new coat of paint every 10 years.
Less of tax payers money being spent on wasted infrastructure. Care to waltz this one out with me?
This is the asshole shithead from DC Citiy IT SweatShop.
What a loozer ... what a kissass.
Now there is no doubt why the Fed's IT is in such dissarray.
This guy need to be hit by a car while J-walking across K Street! Quick! It's for the good of the country!
From: http://gawker.com/#!5174642/obamas-thieving-geek-guilty-of-bad-taste
Here's the real scandal: Kundra, a former marketing executive, has no real tech chops. The credulous geek fanboy community has embraced him as one of his own, forgiven his scandals, and cheered his return to office. Why? He's nothing more than a Web 2.0 flimflam artist, best known for giving speeches about how the government should be more like Wikipedia and YouTube — the kind of happy talk that wins him kudos on Twitter, but has nothing to do with the hard work of making government IT systems work better.
He's never worked in IT. He worked in MARTKETING! and this guy is supposed to he the head of government IT? Just goes to show to have a job in politics you don't have to be good at what you do or even worked in the field before. You just have to be a liar and a thief.